Steam releases · Week 42, 2020

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

WEEK 42 ’2012 Oct – 18 Oct 2020227 releasesMTWTFSS

week 42 of 2020 at a glance

In week 42 of 2020 (12 – 18 Oct 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 (113,619 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (154 releases), it is 47 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	227
With a playable demo	35
Median followers, top 20 by demand	6,538
Free to play, of 223 with a known price	13 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

38%

——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

153

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.

Game	Release	Followers
Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition	2020-10-15	113,619
RuneScape ®	2020-10-14	55,962
Partisans 1941	2020-10-14	50,357
Vigil: The Longest Night	2020-10-14	23,661
The Jackbox Party Pack 7	2020-10-14	14,533
Professional Farmer: Cattle and Crops	2020-10-15	11,923
Fishing: North Atlantic - Enhanced Edition	2020-10-16	10,023
Onee Chanbara ORIGIN	2020-10-14	9,458
G String	2020-10-16	6,921
Lust from Beyond: Scarlet	2020-10-15	6,728