Steam releases · Week 52, 2023

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

WEEK 52 ’2325 Dec – 31 Dec 2023154 releasesMTWTFSS

week 52 of 2023 at a glance

In week 52 of 2023 (25 – 31 Dec 2023), 154 games released on Steam, and 10 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Hamster Hunter (3,385 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (119 releases), it is 29 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	154
With a playable demo	10
Median followers, top 20 by demand	240
Free to play, of 145 with a known price	25 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

120

95%

——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
Hamster Hunter	2023-12-31	3,385
Kings Call	2023-12-25	1,541
CantEscapeTheBackrooms	2023-12-31	980
The Backrooms: Unbounded	2023-12-25	790
人类动物园 Human Zoo	2023-12-25	664
Hypersomnia	2023-12-28	465
Barely Racing	2023-12-28	361
Cumdy	2023-12-28	343
Cross Impact	2023-12-29	311
Welcome to the Karoshi Club	2023-12-27	302