Steam releases · May 2020

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

May 20201 May – 31 May 2020747 releases

Apr 2020 Now Jun 2020

May 2020 at a glance

In May 2020 (1 – 31 May 2020), 747 games released on Steam, and 51 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Mafia III: Definitive Edition (188,044 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (693 releases), it is 8 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	747
With a playable demo	51
Median followers, top 20 by demand	20,830
Free to play, of 713 with a known price	22 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

35%

——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

137

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

549

60%

——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 May 2020

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Mafia III: Definitive Edition	2020-05-19	188,044
Helltaker	2020-05-11	100,030
Golf With Your Friends	2020-05-19	88,019
Hydroneer	2020-05-08	59,100
Galaxy in Turmoil	2020-05-23	49,235
GWENT: The Witcher Card Game	2020-05-19	41,131
Mafia II: Definitive Edition	2020-05-19	22,667
Cepheus Protocol	2020-05-15	22,110
Shop Titans	2020-05-05	21,265
Observation	2020-05-21	20,925