Steam releases · Week 39, 2020

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

WEEK 39 ’2021 Sep – 27 Sep 2020196 releasesMTWTFSS

week 39 of 2020 at a glance

In week 39 of 2020 (21 – 27 Sep 2020), 196 games released on Steam, and 19 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Mafia: Definitive Edition (135,119 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (164 releases), it is 20 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	196
With a playable demo	19
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,650
Free to play, of 189 with a known price	15 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

10%

——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

141

82%

——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
Mafia: Definitive Edition	2020-09-24	135,119
Untitled Goose Game	2020-09-23	126,888
Songs of Syx	2020-09-21	71,261
Serious Sam 4	2020-09-24	61,789
Going Under	2020-09-24	13,033
When The Past Was Around	2020-09-22	11,734
Propagation VR	2020-09-25	9,943
My Vow to My Liege	2020-09-21	8,313
Swordsman VR	2020-09-24	3,734
Poker Master - Texas Hold'em, Roulette, Blackjack, Baccarat, Omaha, Slots, Teen Patti, Mahjong, Landlord, Showhand, Bullfighting, Chinese poker	2020-09-23	2,592