Steam releases · Week 41, 2012

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

WEEK 41 ’128 Oct – 14 Oct 201210 releasesMTWTFSS

week 41 of 2012 at a glance

In week 41 of 2012 (8 – 14 Oct 2012), 10 games released on Steam, and 3 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Euro Truck Simulator 2 (1,400,717 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (6 releases), it is 67 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	10
With a playable demo	3
Median followers, top 20 by demand	419
Free to play, of 10 with a known price	0 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

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

95%

——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
Euro Truck Simulator 2	2012-10-12	1,400,717
Dishonored	2012-10-08	96,289
Democracy 2	2012-10-11	419
Arena Wars 2	2012-10-12	190
XCOM: Enemy Unknown	2012-10-08	—
Worms Revolution	2012-10-10	—
Of Orcs And Men	2012-10-11	—
Blood Bowl: Chaos Edition (Classic)	2012-10-11	—
R.A.W. Realms of Ancient War	2012-10-11	—
Rotastic	2012-10-11	—