Steam releases · Week 38, 2023

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

WEEK 38 ’2318 Sep – 24 Sep 2023265 releasesMTWTFSS

week 38 of 2023 at a glance

In week 38 of 2023 (18 – 24 Sep 2023), 265 games released on Steam, and 31 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Party Animals (665,436 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (189 releases), it is 40 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	265
With a playable demo	31
Median followers, top 20 by demand	2,587
Free to play, of 252 with a known price	19 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

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

58%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

201

31%

——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
Party Animals	2023-09-20	665,436
PAYDAY 3	2023-09-21	187,137
Lies of P	2023-09-18	167,276
Mortal Kombat 1	2023-09-19	116,095
Farlight 84	2023-09-21	40,370
Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles	2023-09-21	18,113
Rise Of The White Sun - 白日升	2023-09-21	17,431
Expedition Agartha	2023-09-21	7,752
Lilith Rising - Season 1	2023-09-20	7,671
Futanari girlfriends ⚧👧🍆	2023-09-22	2,649