Steam releases · Q3 2020

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

Q3 20201 Jul – 30 Sep 20202,337 releasesJAS

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Q3 2020 at a glance

In Q3 2020 (1 Jul – 30 Sep 2020), 2,337 games released on Steam, and 209 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Fall Guys (693,021 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (2,124 releases), it is 10 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	2,337
With a playable demo	209
Median followers, top 20 by demand	126,888
Free to play, of 2,241 with a known price	17 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

33%

——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

439

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

1,690

59%

——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 Q3 2020

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Fall Guys	2020-08-03	693,021
Phasmophobia	2020-09-18	460,313
Factorio	2020-08-14	416,943
Risk of Rain 2	2020-08-11	358,894
Crusader Kings III	2020-09-01	331,696
STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™	2020-07-21	264,658
Empyrion - Galactic Survival	2020-08-05	242,679
Craftopia	2020-09-04	168,478
ULTRAKILL	2020-09-03	151,013
Mafia: Definitive Edition	2020-09-24	135,119