Steam releases · October 2023

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

Oct 20231 Oct – 31 Oct 20231,270 releases

Sep 2023 Now Nov 2023

October 2023 at a glance

In October 2023 (1 – 31 Oct 2023), 1,270 games released on Steam, and 199 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Cities: Skylines II (381,975 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (1,130 releases), it is 12 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	1,270
With a playable demo	199
Median followers, top 20 by demand	41,490
Free to play, of 1,210 with a known price	16 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

12%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

31%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

192

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

947

53%

——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 October 2023

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Cities: Skylines II	2023-10-24	381,975
Lethal Company	2023-10-23	328,339
ARK: Survival Ascended	2023-10-25	298,555
Diablo® IV	2023-10-17	183,724
Lords of the Fallen	2023-10-13	141,867
The Coffin of Andy and Leyley	2023-10-13	93,008
WORLD OF HORROR	2023-10-19	66,515
ENDLESS Dungeon™ - Definitive Edition	2023-10-19	57,643
The Bloodline	2023-10-05	55,607
Total War: PHARAOH	2023-10-11	43,369