Steam releases · December 2023

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

Dec 20231 Dec – 31 Dec 20231,163 releases

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December 2023 at a glance

In December 2023 (1 – 31 Dec 2023), 1,163 games released on Steam, and 135 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Ready or Not (579,044 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (1,215 releases), it is 4 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	1,163
With a playable demo	135
Median followers, top 20 by demand	29,528
Free to play, of 1,106 with a known price	18 %

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

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

183

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

897

92%

——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 December 2023

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Ready or Not	2023-12-13	579,044
THE FINALS	2023-12-07	364,495
Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader	2023-12-07	143,054
Against the Storm	2023-12-08	133,433
House Flipper 2	2023-12-14	96,567
Disney Dreamlight Valley	2023-12-05	89,069
Peeping Dorm Manager	2023-12-15	40,440
A Date with Death	2023-12-07	34,307
Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising	2023-12-13	33,211
WITCH ON THE HOLY NIGHT	2023-12-14	32,424