Steam releases · Week 35, 2023

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

WEEK 35 ’2328 Aug – 3 Sep 2023276 releasesMTWTFSS

week 35 of 2023 at a glance

In week 35 of 2023 (28 Aug – 3 Sep 2023), 276 games released on Steam, and 36 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Borderlands Game of the Year (70,685 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (250 releases), it is 10 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	276
With a playable demo	36
Median followers, top 20 by demand	3,278
Free to play, of 271 with a known price	19 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

26%

——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

223

57%

——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
Borderlands Game of the Year	2023-08-31	70,685
Trine 5: A Clockwork Conspiracy	2023-08-31	21,376
Under The Waves	2023-08-28	19,768
Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle	2023-08-30	14,619
Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced	2023-08-31	13,296
Void Stranger	2023-09-01	7,720
Pocket Bravery	2023-08-31	5,768
Metroplex Zero: Sci-Fi Card Battler	2023-08-28	4,769
Anonymous Hacker Simulator: Prologue	2023-08-28	4,393
Seven Nights Ghost	2023-08-31	3,855