Steam releases · Q2 2020

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

Q2 20201 Apr – 30 Jun 20202,124 releasesAMJ

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Q2 2020 at a glance

In Q2 2020 (1 Apr – 30 Jun 2020), 2,124 games released on Steam, and 172 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is The Sims™ 4 (528,902 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (1,907 releases), it is 11 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	2,124
With a playable demo	172
Median followers, top 20 by demand	103,308
Free to play, of 2,037 with a known price	18 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

15%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

12%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

104

39%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

358

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

1,555

31%

——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 Q2 2020

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
The Sims™ 4	2020-06-18	528,902
Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition	2020-06-03	461,760
Detroit: Become Human	2020-06-18	246,387
Titanfall® 2	2020-06-18	237,019
Mafia III: Definitive Edition	2020-05-19	188,044
Outer Wilds	2020-06-18	186,693
Resident Evil 3	2020-04-02	179,349
Battlefield™ 1	2020-06-11	178,141
Fallout 76	2020-04-14	171,628
Need for Speed™ Heat	2020-06-04	153,541