Steam releases · October 2022

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

Oct 20221 Oct – 31 Oct 20221,087 releases

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October 2022 at a glance

In October 2022 (1 – 31 Oct 2022), 1,087 games released on Steam, and 156 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord (919,118 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (991 releases), it is 10 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	1,087
With a playable demo	156
Median followers, top 20 by demand	69,879
Free to play, of 1,055 with a known price	15 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

73%

——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

189

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

800

20%

——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.

inside October 2022

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord	2022-10-25	919,118
Call of Duty®	2022-10-27	722,280
Victoria 3	2022-10-25	190,535
SUPER PEOPLE	2022-10-08	175,483
Persona 5 Royal	2022-10-20	165,490
UNCHARTED™: Legacy of Thieves Collection	2022-10-19	150,786
Vampire Survivors	2022-10-20	149,688
UNDECEMBER: The Farside	2022-10-11	85,235
Backrooms: Escape Together	2022-10-18	78,818
Tower of Fantasy	2022-10-19	78,509