Steam releases · Week 34, 2023

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

WEEK 34 ’2321 Aug – 27 Aug 2023249 releasesMTWTFSS

week 34 of 2023 at a glance

In week 34 of 2023 (21 – 27 Aug 2023), 249 games released on Steam, and 36 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is ARMORED CORE™ VI FIRES OF RUBICON™ (220,324 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (223 releases), it is 12 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	249
With a playable demo	36
Median followers, top 20 by demand	7,721
Free to play, of 240 with a known price	17 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

24%

——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

183

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.

Game	Release	Followers
ARMORED CORE™ VI FIRES OF RUBICON™	2023-08-24	220,324
Sunkenland	2023-08-25	155,835
MARVEL SNAP	2023-08-22	20,254
Immortals of Aveum™	2023-08-21	16,827
Saints Row	2023-08-24	15,810
Eternium	2023-08-21	14,734
Hadean Tactics	2023-08-24	11,113
SPRAWL	2023-08-23	11,034
Town of Salem 2	2023-08-25	9,112
For the Queen	2023-08-23	8,684