Steam releases · Week 42, 2012

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

WEEK 42 ’1215 Oct – 21 Oct 201211 releasesMTWTFSS

week 42 of 2012 at a glance

In week 42 of 2012 (15 – 21 Oct 2012), 11 games released on Steam, and 4 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken (15,540 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (10 releases), it is 10 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	11
With a playable demo	4
Median followers, top 20 by demand	4,536
Same window a year earlier	10 (+10 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken	2012-10-15	15,540
Fairy Bloom Freesia	2012-10-17	4,894
Viking: Battle for Asgard	2012-10-17	4,536
Unity of Command: Stalingrad Campaign	2012-10-17	3,573
Dwarfs - F2P	2012-10-18	2,091
Chivalry: Medieval Warfare	2012-10-16

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

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

11%

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

85%

——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.