Steam releases · Week 43, 2023

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

WEEK 43 ’2323 Oct – 29 Oct 2023307 releasesMTWTFSS

week 43 of 2023 at a glance

In week 43 of 2023 (23 – 29 Oct 2023), 307 games released on Steam, and 42 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Cities: Skylines II (381,975 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (272 releases), it is 13 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	307
With a playable demo	42
Median followers, top 20 by demand	5,729
Free to play, of 297 with a known price	13 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

23%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

62%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

222

13%

——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
Cities: Skylines II	2023-10-24	381,975
Lethal Company	2023-10-23	328,339
ARK: Survival Ascended	2023-10-25	298,555
Ghostrunner 2	2023-10-26	34,516
The Unliving	2023-10-26	25,601
Dragonheir: Silent Gods	2023-10-26	18,796
Dark Envoy	2023-10-24	17,623
METAL GEAR SOLID 2: Sons of Liberty - Master Collection Version	2023-10-24	10,386
Wizardry: The Five Ordeals	2023-10-26	8,744
Dungeon Full Dive: Game Master Edition	2023-10-24	8,654