Steam releases · Week 43, 2012

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

WEEK 43 ’1222 Oct – 28 Oct 201211 releasesMTWTFSS

week 43 of 2012 at a glance

In week 43 of 2012 (22 – 28 Oct 2012), 11 games released on Steam, and 1 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Deadlight (17,144 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (16 releases), it is 31 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	11
With a playable demo	1
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,212
Free to play, of 10 with a known price	0 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

75%

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

21%

——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
Deadlight	2012-10-25	17,144
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams	2012-10-22	3,285
Conquest of Elysium 3	2012-10-24	1,524
A Game of Dwarves	2012-10-23	1,212
7 Wonders: Ancient Alien Makeover	2012-10-24	275
Hamlet or the Last Game without MMORPG Features, Shaders and Product Placement	2012-10-22	243
Hotline Miami	2012-10-23	—
Lucius	2012-10-26	—
King's Bounty: Warriors of the North	2012-10-25	—
Nancy Drew®: The Deadly Device	2012-10-23	—