Steam releases · Week 34, 2020

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

WEEK 34 ’2017 Aug – 23 Aug 2020175 releasesMTWTFSS

week 34 of 2020 at a glance

In week 34 of 2020 (17 – 23 Aug 2020), 175 games released on Steam, and 19 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Spiritfarer®: Farewell Edition (121,042 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (140 releases), it is 25 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	175
With a playable demo	19
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,921
Free to play, of 169 with a known price	24 %

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

113

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.

Game	Release	Followers
Spiritfarer®: Farewell Edition	2020-08-18	121,042
Chronicon	2020-08-21	36,584
Crosshair X	2020-08-17	27,350
BLEACH Brave Souls	2020-08-17	16,482
Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time	2020-08-21	14,363
DDNet	2020-08-17	12,436
Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game	2020-08-20	11,651
Gaia Beyond	2020-08-20	5,819
Griefhelm	2020-08-20	5,131
The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores	2020-08-21	3,550