Steam releases · Week 34, 2012

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

WEEK 34 ’1220 Aug – 26 Aug 201210 releasesMTWTFSS

week 34 of 2012 at a glance

In week 34 of 2012 (20 – 26 Aug 2012), 10 games released on Steam, and 1 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (32,146 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (11 releases), it is 9 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Data as of
Releases	10
With a playable demo	1
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,128
Same window a year earlier	11 (-9 %)

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

100%

——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.

Game	Release	Followers
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive	2012-08-21	32,146
Thirty Flights of Loving	2012-08-20	1,128
Jagged Alliance: Crossfire	2012-08-24	1,098
Counter-Strike 2	2012-08-21	—
DARK SOULS™: Prepare To Die™ Edition	2012-08-24	—
STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™ II - The Sith Lords™	2012-08-23	—
Galaxy on Fire 2™ Full HD	2012-08-21	—
Tiny Troopers	2012-08-24	—
Din's Curse	2012-08-22	—
AVSEQ	2012-08-23	—