Steam releases · Week 49, 2023

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

WEEK 49 ’234 Dec – 10 Dec 2023309 releasesMTWTFSS

week 49 of 2023 at a glance

In week 49 of 2023 (4 – 10 Dec 2023), 309 games released on Steam, and 49 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is THE FINALS (364,495 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (240 releases), it is 29 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	309
With a playable demo	49
Median followers, top 20 by demand	12,622
Free to play, of 297 with a known price	15 %

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

242

92%

——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 FINALS	2023-12-07	364,495
Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader	2023-12-07	143,054
Against the Storm	2023-12-08	133,433
Disney Dreamlight Valley	2023-12-05	89,069
A Date with Death	2023-12-07	34,307
Blood West	2023-12-05	29,528
Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter	2023-12-06	23,071
Railroader	2023-12-07	17,273
Soulash 2	2023-12-04	15,477
FINAL FANTASY VII EVER CRISIS	2023-12-06	12,745