Steam releases · Q1 2020

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

Q1 20201 Jan – 31 Mar 20201,907 releasesJFM

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Q1 2020 at a glance

In Q1 2020 (1 Jan – 31 Mar 2020), 1,907 games released on Steam, and 164 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Metro Exodus (421,485 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (1,895 releases), it is 1 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	1,907
With a playable demo	164
Median followers, top 20 by demand	97,665
Free to play, of 1,832 with a known price	15 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

45%

——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

336

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

1,426

38%

——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 Q1 2020

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Metro Exodus	2020-02-14	421,485
Besiege	2020-02-18	284,996
Black Mesa	2020-03-06	263,273
Half-Life: Alyx	2020-03-23	258,274
Borderlands 3	2020-03-13	218,871
Ori and the Will of the Wisps	2020-03-10	208,087
Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition	2020-03-24	193,553
DRAGON BALL Z: KAKAROT	2020-01-16	163,694
Stoneshard	2020-02-06	163,135
Avorion	2020-03-09	119,299