Steam releases · September 2012

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

Sep 20121 Sep – 30 Sep 201234 releases

Aug 2012 Now Oct 2012

September 2012 at a glance

In September 2012 (1 – 30 Sep 2012), 34 games released on Steam, and 11 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Borderlands 2 (319,954 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (38 releases), it is 11 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	34
With a playable demo	11
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,057
Free to play, of 29 with a known price	0 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

42%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

17%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

33%

——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 September 2012

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Borderlands 2	2012-09-17	319,954
Torchlight II	2012-09-20	96,245
FTL: Faster Than Light	2012-09-14	64,928
The Testament of Sherlock Holmes	2012-09-25	7,996
Call of Duty: Black Ops - Mac Edition	2012-09-27	1,636
New Star™ Soccer 5	2012-09-27	1,473
ETHER VAPOR Remaster	2012-09-27	1,277
Air Conflicts: Pacific Carriers	2012-09-21	1,057
Secret Files 3	2012-09-13	768
GTR - FIA GT Racing Game	2012-09-25	632