Steam releases · Week 41, 2020

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

WEEK 41 ’205 Oct – 11 Oct 2020147 releasesMTWTFSS

week 41 of 2020 at a glance

In week 41 of 2020 (5 – 11 Oct 2020), 147 games released on Steam, and 15 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is The Survivalists (70,411 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (138 releases), it is 7 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	147
With a playable demo	15
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,012
Free to play, of 141 with a known price	17 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

10%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

70%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

113

20%

——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
The Survivalists	2020-10-09	70,411
Action Taimanin	2020-10-05	70,315
EA SPORTS™ FIFA 21	2020-10-08	57,307
Virtual Cottage	2020-10-07	13,796
The Uncertain: Light At The End	2020-10-08	10,066
Neighbours back From Hell	2020-10-08	7,795
Raji: Prologue	2020-10-05	3,049
Arcana: Heat and Cold. Season 1	2020-10-06	1,844
Animal Rescuer: Prologue	2020-10-07	1,095
Cooking Companions: Appetizer Edition	2020-10-06	1,015