Steam releases · Week 40, 2012

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

WEEK 40 ’121 Oct – 7 Oct 20125 releasesMTWTFSS

week 40 of 2012 at a glance

In week 40 of 2012 (1 – 7 Oct 2012), 5 games released on Steam, and 2 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Nethergate: Resurrection (648 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (2 releases), it is 150 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	5
With a playable demo	2
Median followers, top 20 by demand	648
Same window a year earlier	2 (+150 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 5 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Nethergate: Resurrection	2012-10-05	648
Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit	2012-10-03	—
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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

40%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

60%

——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.