Steam releases · Week 8, 2023

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

WEEK 8 ’2320 Feb – 26 Feb 2023246 releasesMTWTFSS

week 8 of 2023 at a glance

In week 8 of 2023 (20 – 26 Feb 2023), 246 games released on Steam, and 23 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Atomic Heart (251,425 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (205 releases), it is 20 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	246
With a playable demo	23
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,238
Free to play, of 244 with a known price	17 %

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

177

90%

——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
Atomic Heart	2023-02-20	251,425
Company of Heroes 3	2023-02-23	151,699
OCTOPATH TRAVELER II	2023-02-24	90,771
Limbus Company	2023-02-26	72,753
The Pale Beyond	2023-02-24	18,683
In Sink: A Co-Op Escape Prologue	2023-02-25	6,275
The Light Brigade: Definitive Edition	2023-02-22	5,267
Pocky & Rocky Reshrined	2023-02-24	3,646
Pixel Composer	2023-02-23	2,306
Engine Evolution 2022	2023-02-21	2,032