Steam releases · Q4 2019

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

Q4 20191 Oct – 31 Dec 20191,895 releasesOND

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Q4 2019 at a glance

In Q4 2019 (1 Oct – 31 Dec 2019), 1,895 games released on Steam, and 139 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 (1,904 releases), it is the same size. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	1,895
With a playable demo	139
Median followers, top 20 by demand	58,686
Free to play, of 1,819 with a known price	15 %
Same window a year earlier	1,904 (0 %)

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

10%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

362

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

1,374

84%

——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 Q4 2019

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Red Dead Redemption 2	2019-12-05	991,535
Destiny 2	2019-10-01	757,539
Halo: The Master Chief Collection	2019-12-03	499,752
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition	2019-11-14	299,141
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut	2019-10-15	228,912
STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™	2019-11-14	210,622
Secret Neighbor: Hello Neighbor Multiplayer	2019-10-24	125,033
Citadel: Forged with Fire	2019-11-01	73,994
Stay Out	2019-11-27	63,739
Terminator: Resistance	2019-11-14	59,243