Steam releases · August 2020

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

Aug 20201 Aug – 31 Aug 2020786 releases

Jul 2020 Now Sep 2020

August 2020 at a glance

In August 2020 (1 – 31 Aug 2020), 786 games released on Steam, and 78 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Fall Guys (693,021 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (789 releases), it is the same size. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	786
With a playable demo	78
Median followers, top 20 by demand	39,531
Free to play, of 758 with a known price	18 %
Same window a year earlier	789 (0 %)

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

32%

——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

155

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

550

66%

——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 2020

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Fall Guys	2020-08-03	693,021
Factorio	2020-08-14	416,943
Risk of Rain 2	2020-08-11	358,894
Empyrion - Galactic Survival	2020-08-05	242,679
Spiritfarer®: Farewell Edition	2020-08-18	121,042
CONTROL Ultimate Edition	2020-08-27	120,147
Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey	2020-08-27	91,249
Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis	2020-08-05	83,389
The Henry Stickmin Collection	2020-08-07	54,353
Angel Legion	2020-08-14	46,626