Steam releases · Q4 2023

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

Q4 20231 Oct – 31 Dec 20233,648 releasesOND

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Q4 2023 at a glance

In Q4 2023 (1 Oct – 31 Dec 2023), 3,648 games released on Steam, and 536 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Ready or Not (579,044 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (3,334 releases), it is 9 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	3,648
With a playable demo	536
Median followers, top 20 by demand	140,417
Free to play, of 3,483 with a known price	16 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

12%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

136

21%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

162

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

543

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

2,746

57%

——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 Q4 2023

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Ready or Not	2023-12-13	579,044
Cities: Skylines II	2023-10-24	381,975
THE FINALS	2023-12-07	364,495
Lethal Company	2023-10-23	328,339
ARK: Survival Ascended	2023-10-25	298,555
Diablo® IV	2023-10-17	183,724
Coral Island	2023-11-14	148,139
Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader	2023-12-07	143,054
Tales of ARISE	2023-11-08	143,013
Lords of the Fallen	2023-10-13	141,867