Steam releases · Week 21, 2023

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

WEEK 21 ’2322 May – 28 May 2023288 releasesMTWTFSS

week 21 of 2023 at a glance

In week 21 of 2023 (22 – 28 May 2023), 288 games released on Steam, and 35 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun (57,318 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (232 releases), it is 24 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	288
With a playable demo	35
Median followers, top 20 by demand	6,587
Free to play, of 286 with a known price	16 %
Same window a year earlier	232 (+24 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun	2023-05-23	57,318
Planet of Lana	2023-05-23	49,554
Bread & Fred	2023-05-23	40,200
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™	2023-05-25	26,825
Miasma Chronicles	2023-05-23	25,689
Railway Empire 2	2023-05-25	21,800
Magic: The Gathering Arena	2023-05-23	18,607
Fetish Locator Week Three	2023-05-24	16,373
CONVERGENCE: A League of Legends Story™	2023-05-23	8,668
After Us	2023-05-23	6,705

Popular Upcoming, wishlist rank and demand score are defined in Help.

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

27%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

212

68%

——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.