Steam releases · March 2023

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

Mar 20231 Mar – 31 Mar 20231,158 releases

Feb 2023 Now Apr 2023

March 2023 at a glance

In March 2023 (1 – 31 Mar 2023), 1,158 games released on Steam, and 126 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Resident Evil 4 (327,515 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (1,020 releases), it is 14 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	1,158
With a playable demo	126
Median followers, top 20 by demand	31,904
Free to play, of 1,139 with a known price	16 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

23%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

10%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

16%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

206

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

850

44%

——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 March 2023

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Resident Evil 4	2023-03-23	327,515
The Last of Us™ Part I	2023-03-28	253,905
Barotrauma	2023-03-13	158,257
DREDGE	2023-03-30	145,010
Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty	2023-03-03	102,216
Terra Nil	2023-03-28	82,762
Sifu	2023-03-28	75,233
The Last Spell	2023-03-09	69,148
The Great War: Western Front™	2023-03-30	32,974
Ancient Cities	2023-03-24	32,022