Steam releases · Week 43, 2020

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

WEEK 43 ’2019 Oct – 25 Oct 2020228 releasesMTWTFSS

week 43 of 2020 at a glance

In week 43 of 2020 (19 – 25 Oct 2020), 228 games released on Steam, and 26 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Battlefield™ V (327,203 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (158 releases), it is 44 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	228
With a playable demo	26
Median followers, top 20 by demand	8,160
Free to play, of 217 with a known price	14 %
Same window a year earlier	158 (+44 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Battlefield™ V	2020-10-22	327,203
The Outer Worlds	2020-10-23	176,101
Witch It	2020-10-22	100,636
VALHALL: Harbinger	2020-10-22	29,839
Blood of Steel	2020-10-20	27,925
Manifold Garden	2020-10-20	24,336
ScourgeBringer	2020-10-21	21,977
Pumpkin Jack	2020-10-23	18,215
HARD BULLET	2020-10-22	14,297
Scribble It!	2020-10-20	10,258

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

85%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

165

12%

——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.