Steam releases · Week 21, 2012

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

WEEK 21 ’12May 21 – May 27, 20127 releasesMTWTFSS

week 21 of 2012 at a glance

In week 21 of 2012 (May 21 – 27, 2012), 7 games released on Steam. The most anticipated is Alan Wake's American Nightmare (8,349 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (4 releases), it is 75 % busier. Data as of 2026-09-13.

window at a glance
Releases scheduled	7
With a playable demo	0
Median followers, top 20 by demand	6,126
Same window a year earlier	4 (+75 %)
Data as of	2026-09-13

most anticipated, top 7 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Alan Wake's American Nightmare	2012-05-22	8,349
Iron Front: Digital War Edition	2012-05-25	6,177

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

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

22%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

77%

——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.