Steam releases · Week 44, 2012

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

WEEK 44 ’1229 Oct – 4 Nov 201215 releasesMTWTFSS

week 44 of 2012 at a glance

In week 44 of 2012 (29 Oct – 4 Nov 2012), 15 games released on Steam, and 2 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Primal Carnage (34,605 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (5 releases), it is 200 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	15
With a playable demo	2
Median followers, top 20 by demand	432
Free to play, of 15 with a known price	7 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

12%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

—

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

10%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

78%

——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
Primal Carnage	2012-10-29	34,605
Gemini Wars	2012-11-02	432
iBomber Attack	2012-11-01	268
POSTAL 2	2012-11-02	—
Natural Selection 2	2012-10-30	—
Guns of Icarus Online	2012-10-29	—
Divinity II: Developer's Cut	2012-10-29	—
Painkiller Hell & Damnation	2012-10-31	—
Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition)	2012-10-30	—
Beyond Divinity	2012-10-29	—