Steam releases · August 2013

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

Aug 20131 Aug – 31 Aug 201337 releases

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August 2013 at a glance

In August 2013 (1 – 31 Aug 2013), 37 games released on Steam, and 5 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is PAYDAY 2 (8,202,650 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (20 releases), it is 85 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	37
With a playable demo	5
Median followers, top 20 by demand	62,704
Free to play, of 34 with a known price	12 %
Same window a year earlier	20 (+85 %)

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

10%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

64%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

24%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

——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.

inside August 2013

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
PAYDAY 2	2013-08-13	8,202,650
War Thunder	2013-08-15	595,019
DCS World Steam Edition	2013-08-02	327,484
Europa Universalis IV	2013-08-13	222,709
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist	2013-08-20	80,438
Skullgirls 2nd Encore	2013-08-22	77,037
Game Dev Tycoon	2013-08-29	62,704
America's Army: Proving Grounds	2013-08-29	57,594
LOST PLANET® 3	2013-08-26	13,695
Divekick	2013-08-20	3,164