Steam releases · Week 41, 2023

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

WEEK 41 ’239 Oct – 15 Oct 2023231 releasesMTWTFSS

week 41 of 2023 at a glance

In week 41 of 2023 (9 – 15 Oct 2023), 231 games released on Steam, and 27 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Lords of the Fallen (141,867 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (265 releases), it is 13 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	231
With a playable demo	27
Median followers, top 20 by demand	3,370
Free to play, of 221 with a known price	21 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

10%

——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

169

82%

——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
Lords of the Fallen	2023-10-13	141,867
The Coffin of Andy and Leyley	2023-10-13	93,008
Total War: PHARAOH	2023-10-11	43,369
Land of the Vikings	2023-10-09	41,490
Nuclear Option	2023-10-15	32,628
RAILGRADE	2023-10-13	19,967
Tribe: Primitive Builder	2023-10-12	18,779
Harvest Island	2023-10-10	4,959
Ilysia	2023-10-11	4,862
Submachine: Legacy	2023-10-13	4,850