Steam releases · Week 19, 2023

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

WEEK 19 ’238 May – 14 May 2023184 releasesMTWTFSS

week 19 of 2023 at a glance

In week 19 of 2023 (8 – 14 May 2023), 184 games released on Steam, and 20 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Darkest Dungeon® II (92,971 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (236 releases), it is 22 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	184
With a playable demo	20
Median followers, top 20 by demand	2,827
Free to play, of 180 with a known price	20 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

39%

——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

135

59%

——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
Darkest Dungeon® II	2023-05-08	92,971
Far Cry® 6	2023-05-11	63,051
Bum Simulator	2023-05-12	45,914
Torchlight: Infinite	2023-05-09	30,705
Gunsmith Simulator: Prologue	2023-05-10	12,714
Standable: Full Body Estimation	2023-05-08	7,137
Fuga: Melodies of Steel 2	2023-05-10	5,804
TT Isle Of Man: Ride on the Edge 3	2023-05-11	4,806
Abalon: Roguelike Tactics CCG	2023-05-11	3,875
Drift: Space Survival	2023-05-12	3,112