Steam releases · Q3 2023

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

Q3 20231 Jul – 30 Sep 20233,334 releasesJAS

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Q3 2023 at a glance

In Q3 2023 (1 Jul – 30 Sep 2023), 3,334 games released on Steam, and 456 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 (3,237 releases), it is 3 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	3,334
With a playable demo	456
Median followers, top 20 by demand	116,095
Free to play, of 3,193 with a known price	17 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

17%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

148

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

497

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

2,531

69%

——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 Q3 2023

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Baldur's Gate 3	2023-08-03	1,022,167
Party Animals	2023-09-20	665,436
Starfield	2023-09-05	475,304
ARMORED CORE™ VI FIRES OF RUBICON™	2023-08-24	220,324
PAYDAY 3	2023-09-21	187,137
Lies of P	2023-09-18	167,276
REMNANT II®	2023-07-25	157,426
Sunkenland	2023-08-25	155,835
Overwatch®	2023-08-10	133,289
Dune: Spice Wars	2023-09-14	131,847