Steam releases · October 2020

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

Oct 20201 Oct – 31 Oct 2020898 releases

Sep 2020 Now Nov 2020

October 2020 at a glance

In October 2020 (1 – 31 Oct 2020), 898 games released on Steam, and 114 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Battlefield™ V (327,203 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (762 releases), it is 18 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	898
With a playable demo	114
Median followers, top 20 by demand	55,962
Free to play, of 858 with a known price	14 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

19%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

26%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

167

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

631

45%

——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 October 2020

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Battlefield™ V	2020-10-22	327,203
The Outer Worlds	2020-10-23	176,101
Ghostrunner	2020-10-27	138,446
Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition	2020-10-15	113,619
Witch It	2020-10-22	100,636
STAR WARS™: Squadrons	2020-10-01	96,365
The Survivalists	2020-10-09	70,411
Action Taimanin	2020-10-05	70,315
Visage	2020-10-29	59,131
EA SPORTS™ FIFA 21	2020-10-08	57,307