Steam releases · Q4 2020

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

Q4 20201 Oct – 31 Dec 20202,529 releasesOND

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Q4 2020 at a glance

In Q4 2020 (1 Oct – 31 Dec 2020), 2,529 games released on Steam, and 261 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Cyberpunk 2077 (1,629,462 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (2,337 releases), it is 8 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	2,529
With a playable demo	261
Median followers, top 20 by demand	70,767
Free to play, of 2,410 with a known price	15 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

110

56%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

107

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

460

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

1,827

40%

——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 Q4 2020

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Cyberpunk 2077	2020-12-09	1,629,462
Apex Legends™	2020-11-04	615,841
Battlefield™ V	2020-10-22	327,203
The Outer Worlds	2020-10-23	176,101
Ghostrunner	2020-10-27	138,446
Amazing Cultivation Simulator	2020-11-24	117,537
Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition	2020-10-15	113,619
Witch It	2020-10-22	100,636
STAR WARS™: Squadrons	2020-10-01	96,365
Red Dead Online	2020-12-01	72,855