Steam releases · Week 42, 2023

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

WEEK 42 ’2316 Oct – 22 Oct 2023343 releasesMTWTFSS

week 42 of 2023 at a glance

In week 42 of 2023 (16 – 22 Oct 2023), 343 games released on Steam, and 66 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Diablo® IV (183,724 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (241 releases), it is 42 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	343
With a playable demo	66
Median followers, top 20 by demand	12,259
Free to play, of 320 with a known price	14 %

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

251

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.

Game	Release	Followers
Diablo® IV	2023-10-17	183,724
WORLD OF HORROR	2023-10-19	66,515
ENDLESS Dungeon™ - Definitive Edition	2023-10-19	57,643
Executive Assault 2	2023-10-18	40,346
Alaskan Road Truckers	2023-10-18	37,148
Yog-Sothoth’s Yard	2023-10-19	33,842
Galactic Civilizations IV	2023-10-19	31,622
Fears to Fathom - Ironbark Lookout	2023-10-20	18,598
Farmer's Life	2023-10-20	15,409
Outpath	2023-10-16	13,872