Steam releases · Week 34, 2020

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

WEEK 34 ’20Aug 17 – Aug 23, 2020175 releasesMTWTFSS

week 34 of 2020 at a glance

In week 34 of 2020 (Aug 17 – 23, 2020), 175 games released on Steam, and 18 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Spiritfarer®: Farewell Edition (120,649 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (140 releases), it is 25 % busier. Data as of 2026-09-13.

window at a glance
Releases scheduled	175
With a playable demo	18
Median followers, top 20 by demand	6,943
Free to play, of 167 with a known price	23 %
Same window a year earlier	140 (+25 %)
Data as of	2026-09-13

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Spiritfarer®: Farewell Edition	2020-08-18	120,649
Chronicon	2020-08-21	36,466
INMOST	2020-08-21	27,621
Train Sim World® 2	2020-08-20	27,235
Crosshair X	2020-08-17	26,679
BLEACH Brave Souls	2020-08-17	16,371
DDNet	2020-08-17	12,280
Occupy Mars: Prologue (2020)	2020-08-20	11,729
PGA TOUR 2K21	2020-08-20	11,316
Siege Survival: Gloria Victis Prologue	2020-08-19	9,720

Popular Upcoming, wishlist rank and demand score are defined in Help.

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

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

115

99%

——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.