Steam releases · Week 45, 2020

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

WEEK 45 ’202 Nov – 8 Nov 2020218 releasesMTWTFSS

week 45 of 2020 at a glance

In week 45 of 2020 (2 – 8 Nov 2020), 218 games released on Steam, and 26 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Apex Legends™ (615,841 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (152 releases), it is 43 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	218
With a playable demo	26
Median followers, top 20 by demand	2,596
Free to play, of 209 with a known price	13 %
Same window a year earlier	152 (+43 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Apex Legends™	2020-11-04	615,841
Need for Speed™ Hot Pursuit Remastered	2020-11-06	28,097
Fantasy Grounds VTT	2020-11-05	18,636
Thief Simulator VR	2020-11-05	11,662
SpellForce 3 Versus Edition	2020-11-03	8,000
Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals	2020-11-02	7,081
The Emperor's Own: Alpha Teaser	2020-11-04	4,660
Alchemage	2020-11-04	3,683
Space Commander: War and Trade	2020-11-04	3,135
Perfect Vermin	2020-11-06	2,893

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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

99%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

152

——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.