Steam releases · August 2012

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

Aug 20121 Aug – 31 Aug 201238 releases

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August 2012 at a glance

In August 2012 (1 – 31 Aug 2012), 38 games released on Steam, and 4 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (32,146 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (16 releases), it is 138 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	38
With a playable demo	4
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,950
Free to play, of 32 with a known price	13 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

98%

——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.

inside August 2012

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive	2012-08-21	32,146
MapleStory	2012-08-09	23,290
Deponia	2012-08-06	14,790
They Bleed Pixels	2012-08-29	5,424
Super Crate Box	2012-08-29	5,067
Iron Brigade	2012-08-13	3,592
eXceed 3rd - Jade Penetrate Black Package	2012-08-02	2,076
Cladun X2	2012-08-14	1,950
Death Rally	2012-08-03	1,789
Home	2012-08-31	1,293