Steam releases · Week 37, 2023

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

WEEK 37 ’2311 Sep – 17 Sep 2023266 releasesMTWTFSS

week 37 of 2023 at a glance

In week 37 of 2023 (11 – 17 Sep 2023), 266 games released on Steam, and 37 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Dune: Spice Wars (131,847 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (209 releases), it is 27 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	266
With a playable demo	37
Median followers, top 20 by demand	11,597
Free to play, of 256 with a known price	15 %
Same window a year earlier	209 (+27 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Dune: Spice Wars	2023-09-14	131,847
Wandering Sword	2023-09-14	90,583
ONE PIECE: PIRATE WARRIORS 4	2023-09-14	82,671
Eternights	2023-09-11	27,027
Scarlet Maiden	2023-09-15	26,053
God Of Weapons	2023-09-12	17,779
Deceit 2	2023-09-14	17,070
We Were Here Expeditions: The FriendShip	2023-09-14	16,397
Fading Afternoon	2023-09-14	11,962
Plasma	2023-09-13	11,905

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

66%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

194

25%

——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.