Steam releases · Week 42, 2020

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

WEEK 42 ’20Oct 12 – Oct 18, 2020227 releasesMTWTFSS

week 42 of 2020 at a glance

In week 42 of 2020 (Oct 12 – 18, 2020), 227 games released on Steam, and 35 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition (112,409 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (153 releases), it is 48 % busier. Data as of 2026-09-13.

window at a glance
Releases scheduled	227
With a playable demo	35
Median followers, top 20 by demand	6,714
Free to play, of 221 with a known price	13 %
Same window a year earlier	153 (+48 %)
Data as of	2026-09-13

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition	2020-10-15	112,409
RuneScape ®	2020-10-14	55,465
Torchlight III	2020-10-13	53,406
Partisans 1941	2020-10-14	50,300
Second Extinction™	2020-10-13	36,792
Kingdom Rush Vengeance - Tower Defense	2020-10-15	30,307
Vigil: The Longest Night	2020-10-14	23,639
The Jackbox Party Pack 7	2020-10-14	14,514
Cube Escape Collection	2020-10-14	9,884
Onee Chanbara ORIGIN	2020-10-14	9,383

Popular Upcoming, wishlist rank and demand score are defined in Help.

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

41%

——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

159

56%

——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.