Steam releases · Week 6, 2012

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

WEEK 6 ’12Feb 6 – Feb 12, 20125 releasesMTWTFSS

week 6 of 2012 at a glance

In week 6 of 2012 (Feb 6 – 12, 2012), 5 games released on Steam, and 4 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is The Darkness II (28,624 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (2 releases), it is 150 % busier. Data as of 2026-09-13.

window at a glance
Releases scheduled	5
With a playable demo	4
Median followers, top 20 by demand	9,136
Same window a year earlier	2 (+150 %)
Data as of	2026-09-13

most anticipated, top 5 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
The Darkness II	2012-02-09	28,624
Shank 2	2012-02-07	9,136
Crazy Machines Elements	2012-02-10	311
Jagged Alliance - Back in Action	2012-02-08	—
Scoregasm	2012-02-08	—

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

62%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

25%

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

11%

——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.