Steam releases · Week 21, 2012

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

WEEK 21 ’1221 May – 27 May 20127 releasesMTWTFSS

week 21 of 2012 at a glance

In week 21 of 2012 (21 – 27 May 2012), 7 games released on Steam. The most anticipated is Thief II: The Metal Age (6,147 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (4 releases), it is 75 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	7
With a playable demo	0
Median followers, top 20 by demand	6,147
Same window a year earlier	4 (+75 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 7 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Thief II: The Metal Age	2012-05-22	6,147
Alan Wake's American Nightmare	2012-05-22	—
Ticket to Ride: Classic Edition	2012-05-24	—
Thief Gold (1999)	2012-05-22	—
Stronghold 3 Gold	2012-05-25	—
Iron Front: Digital War Edition	2012-05-25	—
Fieldrunners	2012-05-24	—

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

33%

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

20%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

46%

——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.