Steam releases · Week 42, 2023

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

WEEK 42 ’23Oct 16 – Oct 22, 2023357 releasesMTWTFSS

week 42 of 2023 at a glance

In week 42 of 2023 (Oct 16 – 22, 2023), 357 games released on Steam, and 65 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Diablo® IV (176,896 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (252 releases), it is 42 % busier. Data as of 2026-09-13.

window at a glance
Releases scheduled	357
With a playable demo	65
Median followers, top 20 by demand	13,604
Free to play, of 317 with a known price	14 %
Same window a year earlier	252 (+42 %)
Data as of	2026-09-13

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Diablo® IV	2023-10-17	176,896
WORLD OF HORROR	2023-10-19	66,180
ENDLESS Dungeon™ - Definitive Edition	2023-10-19	57,746
Wizard with a Gun	2023-10-17	49,859
Executive Assault 2	2023-10-18	40,306
Alaskan Road Truckers	2023-10-18	37,114
Galactic Civilizations IV	2023-10-19	31,557
Laika: Aged Through Blood	2023-10-19	23,922
Fears to Fathom - Ironbark Lookout	2023-10-20	18,421
Farmer's Life	2023-10-20	15,375

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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

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

271

96%

——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.