Steam releases · Week 18, 2023

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

WEEK 18 ’231 May – 7 May 2023274 releasesMTWTFSS

week 18 of 2023 at a glance

In week 18 of 2023 (1 – 7 May 2023), 274 games released on Steam, and 20 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Age of Wonders 4 (108,910 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (201 releases), it is 36 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	274
With a playable demo	20
Median followers, top 20 by demand	2,639
Free to play, of 271 with a known price	25 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

76%

——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

207

——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
Age of Wonders 4	2023-05-02	108,910
Silica	2023-05-03	64,725
Redfall	2023-05-01	42,959
Garten of Banban 3	2023-05-05	15,301
Idol Showdown	2023-05-05	11,732
Thief Simulator 2: Prologue	2023-05-03	6,098
Tiny Life	2023-05-03	5,506
Gravewood High	2023-05-03	5,392
ETHYRIAL	2023-05-01	4,272
Q REMASTERED	2023-05-01	3,091