Steam releases · Q2 2023

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

Q2 20231 Apr – 30 Jun 20233,237 releasesAMJ

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Q2 2023 at a glance

In Q2 2023 (1 Apr – 30 Jun 2023), 3,237 games released on Steam, and 394 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is DAVE THE DIVER (254,292 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (3,110 releases), it is 4 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	3,237
With a playable demo	394
Median followers, top 20 by demand	92,441
Free to play, of 3,153 with a known price	19 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

10%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

101

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

121

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

524

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

2,430

76%

——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 Q2 2023

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
DAVE THE DIVER	2023-06-28	254,292
Wartales	2023-04-12	210,647
Street Fighter™ 6	2023-06-01	186,947
Aimlabs	2023-06-16	176,205
NARUTO TO BORUTO: SHINOBI STRIKER	2023-06-29	147,210
STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor™	2023-04-27	144,791
EVERSPACE™ 2	2023-04-06	115,981
Stranded: Alien Dawn	2023-04-25	111,281
Age of Wonders 4	2023-05-02	108,910
Darkest Dungeon® II	2023-05-08	92,971