Steam releases · Week 16, 2023

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

WEEK 16 ’2317 Apr – 23 Apr 2023240 releasesMTWTFSS

week 16 of 2023 at a glance

In week 16 of 2023 (17 – 23 Apr 2023), 240 games released on Steam, and 35 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Volcano Princess (74,697 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (194 releases), it is 24 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	240
With a playable demo	35
Median followers, top 20 by demand	2,849
Free to play, of 235 with a known price	19 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

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

174

91%

——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
Volcano Princess	2023-04-20	74,697
Total Conflict: Resistance	2023-04-21	49,600
Shieldwall	2023-04-18	33,884
Combat Master: Season 5	2023-04-21	22,947
Disney Speedstorm	2023-04-18	20,518
Hush Hush - Only Your Love Can Save Them	2023-04-20	13,489
Pets Hotel	2023-04-17	6,150
灵墟	2023-04-17	5,361
Zoeti	2023-04-20	3,541
Teslagrad 2	2023-04-19	3,456