Steam releases · Q2 2012

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

Q2 20121 Apr – 30 Jun 201292 releasesAMJ

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Q2 2012 at a glance

In Q2 2012 (1 Apr – 30 Jun 2012), 92 games released on Steam, and 17 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is The Lord of the Rings Online™ (89,701 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (71 releases), it is 30 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	92
With a playable demo	17
Median followers, top 20 by demand	3,798
Free to play, of 72 with a known price	8 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

15%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

15%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

15%

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

32%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

23%

——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 Q2 2012

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
The Lord of the Rings Online™	2012-06-06	89,701
Max Payne 3	2012-05-31	68,154
Dungeons & Dragons Online®	2012-06-25	39,600
Vindictus	2012-06-22	28,486
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier™	2012-06-26	24,411
Blades of Time	2012-04-20	14,018
Street Fighter X Tekken	2012-05-11	8,354
Avernum: Escape From the Pit	2012-04-11	6,545
Thief II: The Metal Age	2012-05-22	6,147
Sonic the Hedgehog 4 - Episode II	2012-05-15	4,259