Steam releases · Week 38, 2020

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

WEEK 38 ’20Sep 14 – Sep 20, 2020162 releasesMTWTFSS

week 38 of 2020 at a glance

In week 38 of 2020 (Sep 14 – 20, 2020), 162 games released on Steam, and 8 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Phasmophobia (457,831 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (137 releases), it is 18 % busier. Data as of 2026-09-13.

window at a glance
Releases scheduled	162
With a playable demo	8
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,165
Free to play, of 150 with a known price	16 %
Same window a year earlier	137 (+18 %)
Data as of	2026-09-13

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Phasmophobia	2020-09-18	457,831
Hades	2020-09-17	307,636
Stormworks: Build and Rescue	2020-09-17	98,059
Wingspan	2020-09-17	36,063
BPM: BULLETS PER MINUTE	2020-09-15	24,934
ISEKAI QUEST	2020-09-15	14,928
Atomicrops	2020-09-17	13,358
Live the Life	2020-09-16	4,271
Vaporum: Lockdown	2020-09-15	2,357
Welcome to Elk	2020-09-17	1,751

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

122

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.