Steam releases · January 2023

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

Jan 20231 Jan – 31 Jan 2023932 releases

Dec 2022 Now Feb 2023

January 2023 at a glance

In January 2023 (1 – 31 Jan 2023), 932 games released on Steam, and 114 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Hi-Fi RUSH (79,677 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (988 releases), it is 6 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	932
With a playable demo	114
Median followers, top 20 by demand	18,682
Free to play, of 906 with a known price	16 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

35%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

156

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

709

59%

——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.

inside January 2023

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Hi-Fi RUSH	2023-01-25	79,677
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® Breakpoint	2023-01-23	78,882
Gorilla Tag	2023-01-01	75,968
Tom Clancy’s The Division® 2	2023-01-12	67,803
Industries of Titan	2023-01-31	65,595
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition	2023-01-19	39,168
Watch Dogs®: Legion	2023-01-26	29,073
Aquatico	2023-01-12	25,465
SEASON: A letter to the future	2023-01-31	23,154
Juno: New Origins	2023-01-26	21,740