Steam releases · Week 36, 2020

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

WEEK 36 ’20Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2020203 releasesMTWTFSS

week 36 of 2020 at a glance

In week 36 of 2020 (Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2020), 203 games released on Steam, and 19 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Crusader Kings III (328,054 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (160 releases), it is 27 % busier. Data as of 2026-09-13.

window at a glance
Releases scheduled	203
With a playable demo	19
Median followers, top 20 by demand	4,000
Free to play, of 186 with a known price	18 %
Same window a year earlier	160 (+27 %)
Data as of	2026-09-13

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Crusader Kings III	2020-09-01	328,054
Craftopia	2020-09-04	168,531
ULTRAKILL	2020-09-03	148,143
Iron Harvest	2020-08-31	109,163
Marvel's Avengers - The Definitive Edition	2020-09-04	100,290
NBA 2K21	2020-09-04	41,590
EA Play	2020-08-31	22,135
Escape Room - Der kranke Kollege	2020-09-05	17,200
Paradise Killer	2020-09-04	13,344
Combat Mission Shock Force 2	2020-08-31	7,884

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

12%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

85%

——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

154

——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.