Steam releases · Q1 2023

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

Q1 20231 Jan – 31 Mar 20233,110 releasesJFM

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Q1 2023 at a glance

In Q1 2023 (1 Jan – 31 Mar 2023), 3,110 games released on Steam, and 361 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Hogwarts Legacy (720,059 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (3,140 releases), it is 1 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	3,110
With a playable demo	361
Median followers, top 20 by demand	79,677
Free to play, of 3,048 with a known price	16 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

16%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

113

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

556

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

2,308

70%

——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 Q1 2023

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Hogwarts Legacy	2023-02-10	720,059
Resident Evil 4	2023-03-23	327,515
The Last of Us™ Part I	2023-03-28	253,905
Atomic Heart	2023-02-20	251,425
Barotrauma	2023-03-13	158,257
Company of Heroes 3	2023-02-23	151,699
DREDGE	2023-03-30	145,010
Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty	2023-03-03	102,216
OCTOPATH TRAVELER II	2023-02-24	90,771
Terra Nil	2023-03-28	82,762