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AFL 23 cover art

AFL 23

Big Ant Studios · Nacon · 2023-05-03

SteamPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

SimulationSports

Franchise: AFL · Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: May 04, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 04, 2023 (PlayStation 4), May 04, 2023 (PlayStation 5), Sep 21, 2023 (Xbox One), Sep 21, 2023 (Xbox Series X|S)

AFL 23 - IT'S TIME TO FLY!! Feel the Atmosphere, Chase your dreams and Make it your own - in the most realistic AFL game ever!

44%
positive of 446 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
2.83★
PlayStation Store rating (1,039 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$59.99
steam price (US)
AFL 23 is a 2023 Australian rules football simulation video game developed by Big Ant Studios and published by Nacon. It was released in May 2023 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5, and after a long delay, it was finally released for the Xbox One and Xbox Series X in September 2023. The game is the most recent installment in the long-running AFL video game series, and the first to be developed by Big Ant since AFL Live in 2011.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 12 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 50% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (234 reviews).
  • · Top 22% of 16,849 Simulation games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 8.9k–20k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 446 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$39.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $22.93 at GameBillet (2025-04-08)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $39.99 · on sale 0 of 5 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
13513520232026Week of 2023-05-01: 99 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 135 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$39.99$39.992026-09-122026-10-102026-09-12 — best price $39.992026-09-19 — best price $39.992026-09-26 — best price $39.992026-10-03 — best price $39.992026-10-10 — best price $39.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

26
achievements tracked
89.4%
earned "Ruck'n Great"
28.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPShared/Split Screen PvPCo-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam Achievements

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS5 (PlayStation)36613%27
PS4 (PlayStation)12311%27
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)893%26
Steam (Steam)474%26

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

3DPvPCo-opSportse-sportsRealisticControllerManagementSimulationTeam-Based

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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