Steam releases · April 2023

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

Apr 20231 Apr – 30 Apr 20231,076 releases

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April 2023 at a glance

In April 2023 (1 – 30 Apr 2023), 1,076 games released on Steam, and 136 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Wartales (210,647 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (1,158 releases), it is 7 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	1,076
With a playable demo	136
Median followers, top 20 by demand	28,855
Free to play, of 1,056 with a known price	18 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

10%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

14%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

150

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

824

71%

——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 April 2023

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Wartales	2023-04-12	210,647
STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor™	2023-04-27	144,791
EVERSPACE™ 2	2023-04-06	115,981
Stranded: Alien Dawn	2023-04-25	111,281
Volcano Princess	2023-04-20	74,697
Total Conflict: Resistance	2023-04-21	49,600
Crab Champions	2023-04-01	45,803
Roots of Pacha	2023-04-25	45,343
Shieldwall	2023-04-18	33,884
Caliber	2023-04-12	29,082