Steam releases · Week 9, 2023

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

WEEK 9 ’2327 Feb – 5 Mar 2023275 releasesMTWTFSS

week 9 of 2023 at a glance

In week 9 of 2023 (27 Feb – 5 Mar 2023), 275 games released on Steam, and 35 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty (102,216 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (258 releases), it is 7 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	275
With a playable demo	35
Median followers, top 20 by demand	2,620
Free to play, of 269 with a known price	14 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

25%

——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

209

62%

——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
Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty	2023-03-03	102,216
Phantom Brigade	2023-02-28	49,400
Scars Above	2023-02-28	27,412
Lumencraft	2023-02-28	17,079
Apex Point	2023-03-04	14,764
King Of The Castle	2023-03-02	12,312
Uncharted Waters Origin	2023-03-05	8,230
Stickman Trenches	2023-03-01	7,877
Unmatched: Digital Edition	2023-02-28	3,210
The Ouroboros King	2023-02-27	2,860