Steam releases · Week 33, 2023

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

WEEK 33 ’2314 Aug – 20 Aug 2023262 releasesMTWTFSS

week 33 of 2023 at a glance

In week 33 of 2023 (14 – 20 Aug 2023), 262 games released on Steam, and 31 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (64,398 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (202 releases), it is 30 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	262
With a playable demo	31
Median followers, top 20 by demand	14,222
Free to play, of 248 with a known price	18 %

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

11%

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

16%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

196

60%

——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
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre	2023-08-18	64,398
Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew	2023-08-17	55,010
Bomb Rush Cyberfunk	2023-08-18	49,591
Labyrinthine	2023-08-18	39,379
Golf It!	2023-08-18	38,209
HoloCure - Save the Fans!	2023-08-16	36,513
BOOK OF HOURS	2023-08-17	29,030
The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood	2023-08-16	21,750
Ship Graveyard Simulator 2	2023-08-16	18,740
Waven	2023-08-16	14,653