Steam releases · August 2023

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

Aug 20231 Aug – 31 Aug 20231,143 releases

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August 2023 at a glance

In August 2023 (1 – 31 Aug 2023), 1,143 games released on Steam, and 149 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Baldur's Gate 3 (1,022,167 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (1,061 releases), it is 8 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	1,143
With a playable demo	149
Median followers, top 20 by demand	39,330
Free to play, of 1,105 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

150

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

888

95%

——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 August 2023

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Baldur's Gate 3	2023-08-03	1,022,167
ARMORED CORE™ VI FIRES OF RUBICON™	2023-08-24	220,324
Sunkenland	2023-08-25	155,835
Overwatch®	2023-08-10	133,289
Borderlands Game of the Year	2023-08-31	70,685
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre	2023-08-18	64,398
VPet-Simulator	2023-08-13	62,165
Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew	2023-08-17	55,010
Bomb Rush Cyberfunk	2023-08-18	49,591
OPERATOR	2023-08-01	46,573