Steam releases · April 2012

Who takes the attention in this window · releases grouped by the observed scale of their publisher

Apr 20121 Apr – 30 Apr 201228 releases

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April 2012 at a glance

In April 2012 (1 – 30 Apr 2012), 28 games released on Steam, and 6 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Blades of Time (14,018 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (26 releases), it is 8 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	28
With a playable demo	6
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,560
Free to play, of 25 with a known price	8 %
Same window a year earlier	26 (+8 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Blades of Time	2012-04-20	14,018
Avernum: Escape From the Pit	2012-04-11	6,545
Noitu Love 2: Devolution	2012-04-23	2,163
Hack, Slash, Loot	2012-04-05	1,708
Men of War: Condemned Heroes	2012-04-12	1,560
All Zombies Must Die!: Scorepocalypse	2012-04-19

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

36%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

57%

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

——too few

Class is the observed scale of a publisher’s portfolio: the median review count of what they released over the last 36 months. Budgets are invisible to us, so these are not the industry’s AAA and AA labels.Peak players is the highest concurrent count since release. “Kept at 5w” compares the fifth week against the first-week peak, counting only releases with at least 20 concurrent players.Concurrent players are observed from 2026-07-19 onward. Releases before that date have no player columns, and that is a gap in our watching, not a zero.

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