Steam releases · Week 40, 2023

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

WEEK 40 ’232 Oct – 8 Oct 2023256 releasesMTWTFSS

week 40 of 2023 at a glance

In week 40 of 2023 (2 – 8 Oct 2023), 256 games released on Steam, and 42 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is The Bloodline (55,607 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (220 releases), it is 16 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	256
With a playable demo	42
Median followers, top 20 by demand	2,405
Free to play, of 247 with a known price	16 %

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

23%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

33%

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

200

26%

——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 Bloodline	2023-10-05	55,607
Thief Simulator 2	2023-10-04	34,032
Ooblets	2023-10-05	32,906
dotAGE	2023-10-04	14,737
SWORD ART ONLINE Last Recollection	2023-10-05	14,312
Disgaea 7: Vows of the Virtueless	2023-10-03	10,740
Heads Will Roll: Reforged	2023-10-04	7,330
Virtual Circuit Board	2023-10-06	7,146
Resonite	2023-10-06	4,649
My Ex-future Family	2023-10-02	2,809