Steam releases · Week 16, 2012

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

WEEK 16 ’1216 Apr – 22 Apr 20127 releasesMTWTFSS

week 16 of 2012 at a glance

In week 16 of 2012 (16 – 22 Apr 2012), 7 games released on Steam, and 2 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 (10 releases), it is 30 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	7
With a playable demo	2
Median followers, top 20 by demand	393
Same window a year earlier	10 (-30 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 7 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Blades of Time	2012-04-20	14,018
All Zombies Must Die!: Scorepocalypse	2012-04-19	393
MacGuffin's Curse	2012-04-19	276
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition	2012-04-16	—
Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP	2012-04-16	—
Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet	2012-04-17	—
Deep Black: Reloaded	2012-04-17	—

Popular Upcoming, wishlist rank and demand score are defined in Help.

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

98%

——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.