Steam releases · December 2019

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

Dec 20191 Dec – 31 Dec 2019595 releases

Nov 2019 Now Jan 2020

December 2019 at a glance

In December 2019 (1 – 31 Dec 2019), 595 games released on Steam, and 40 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Red Dead Redemption 2 (991,535 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (624 releases), it is 5 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	595
With a playable demo	40
Median followers, top 20 by demand	7,411
Free to play, of 570 with a known price	16 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

12%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

12%

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

106

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

441

75%

——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 December 2019

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Red Dead Redemption 2	2019-12-05	991,535
Halo: The Master Chief Collection	2019-12-03	499,752
Ylands	2019-12-05	58,686
Day of Dragons	2019-12-04	31,247
Last Year	2019-12-09	21,433
Fight Angel Special Edition	2019-12-20	20,501
Starcom: Nexus	2019-12-12	13,611
Tools Up!	2019-12-03	10,440
Paunch	2019-12-04	10,191
STEINS;GATE: My Darling's Embrace	2019-12-10	8,620