Steam releases · Week 3, 2023

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

WEEK 3 ’2316 Jan – 22 Jan 2023229 releasesMTWTFSS

week 3 of 2023 at a glance

In week 3 of 2023 (16 – 22 Jan 2023), 229 games released on Steam, and 33 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition (39,168 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (231 releases), it is 1 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	229
With a playable demo	33
Median followers, top 20 by demand	3,549
Free to play, of 221 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

180

89%

——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
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition	2023-01-19	39,168
WW2 Rebuilder	2023-01-16	18,682
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – The Definitive Edition	2023-01-19	15,084
Fraymakers	2023-01-18	14,890
The Pioneers: Surviving Desolation	2023-01-20	12,815
Monster Girl2	2023-01-18	10,132
Lunar Mirror	2023-01-19	8,545
Grand Theft Auto III – The Definitive Edition	2023-01-19	6,894
The True Love Rings	2023-01-17	4,058
Nope Nope Nope Nurses	2023-01-19	3,711