Steam releases · Week 31, 2023

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

WEEK 31 ’2331 Jul – 6 Aug 2023269 releasesMTWTFSS

week 31 of 2023 at a glance

In week 31 of 2023 (31 Jul – 6 Aug 2023), 269 games released on Steam, and 40 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Baldur's Gate 3 (1,022,167 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (232 releases), it is 16 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	269
With a playable demo	40
Median followers, top 20 by demand	6,335
Free to play, of 257 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

212

100%

——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
Baldur's Gate 3	2023-08-03	1,022,167
OPERATOR	2023-08-01	46,573
Canvas of Kings	2023-08-03	26,962
Zero Caliber VR	2023-07-31	22,569
Taboo Trial	2023-07-31	20,906
Project F	2023-08-03	16,861
Venba	2023-07-31	9,201
WHITE ALBUM: Memories like Falling Snow	2023-08-03	7,256
Adore	2023-08-02	7,202
Human Farm - Rehabilitation -	2023-08-04	6,388