Steam releases · Week 35, 2020

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

WEEK 35 ’2024 Aug – 30 Aug 2020187 releasesMTWTFSS

week 35 of 2020 at a glance

In week 35 of 2020 (24 – 30 Aug 2020), 187 games released on Steam, and 20 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is CONTROL Ultimate Edition (120,147 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (177 releases), it is 6 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	187
With a playable demo	20
Median followers, top 20 by demand	2,815
Free to play, of 182 with a known price	16 %
Same window a year earlier	177 (+6 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
CONTROL Ultimate Edition	2020-08-27	120,147
Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey	2020-08-27	91,249
Tell Me Why	2020-08-27	36,791
RPG Maker MZ	2020-08-27	34,783
Mr. Prepper: Prologue	2020-08-27	18,686
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk	2020-08-26	12,559
Gladiator Guild Manager: Prologue	2020-08-27	6,275
Madden NFL 21	2020-08-28	5,898
Dark Fracture: Prologue	2020-08-25	4,819
A Long Way Down	2020-08-27	4,002

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

120

76%

——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.