Steam releases · Week 36, 2020

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

WEEK 36 ’2031 Aug – 6 Sep 2020202 releasesMTWTFSS

week 36 of 2020 at a glance

In week 36 of 2020 (31 Aug – 6 Sep 2020), 202 games released on Steam, and 19 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Crusader Kings III (331,696 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (159 releases), it is 27 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	202
With a playable demo	19
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,600
Free to play, of 187 with a known price	18 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

97%

——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

151

——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
Crusader Kings III	2020-09-01	331,696
Craftopia	2020-09-04	168,478
ULTRAKILL	2020-09-03	151,013
EA Play	2020-08-31	24,708
Escape Room - Der kranke Kollege	2020-09-05	17,248
Hex of Steel	2020-08-31	3,968
Kandidatos	2020-09-01	2,796
Time Break Chronicles	2020-09-01	2,363
High Entropy: Challenges	2020-09-01	2,100
StopGate	2020-09-01	1,828