Steam releases · Week 12, 2023

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

WEEK 12 ’2320 Mar – 26 Mar 2023238 releasesMTWTFSS

week 12 of 2023 at a glance

In week 12 of 2023 (20 – 26 Mar 2023), 238 games released on Steam, and 20 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Resident Evil 4 (328,449 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (190 releases), it is 25 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	238
With a playable demo	20
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,706
Free to play, of 234 with a known price	16 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

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

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

168

92%

——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.

Game	Release	Followers
Resident Evil 4	2023-03-23	328,449
Ancient Cities	2023-03-24	32,022
Storyteller	2023-03-23	31,904
Deceive Inc.	2023-03-21	26,677
Ghosts of Tabor	2023-03-20	24,809
West Hunt	2023-03-23	9,355
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners - Chapter 2: Retribution	2023-03-21	8,357
Above Snakes: Prologue	2023-03-24	7,573
My Life as a Cult Leader	2023-03-24	6,805
Apewar	2023-03-24	6,105