Steam releases · Week 8, 2020

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

WEEK 8 ’2017 Feb – 23 Feb 2020168 releasesMTWTFSS

week 8 of 2020 at a glance

In week 8 of 2020 (17 – 23 Feb 2020), 168 games released on Steam, and 16 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Besiege (284,996 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (150 releases), it is 12 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	168
With a playable demo	16
Median followers, top 20 by demand	2,910
Free to play, of 164 with a known price	20 %
Same window a year earlier	150 (+12 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Besiege	2020-02-18	284,996
Tank Mechanic Simulator	2020-02-20	42,657
RISK: Global Domination	2020-02-19	32,623
Death and Taxes	2020-02-20	18,180
Pretty Neko	2020-02-20	5,045
Rocket Science	2020-02-20	5,034
H-Hour: World's Elite	2020-02-17	4,874
Elf Breeding Farm	2020-02-21	4,566
KATANA KAMI: A Way of the Samurai Story	2020-02-19	3,950
Warzone 2100	2020-02-18	3,667

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

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

123

86%

——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.