Steam releases · December 2022

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

Dec 20221 Dec – 31 Dec 2022988 releases

Nov 2022 Now Jan 2023

December 2022 at a glance

In December 2022 (1 – 31 Dec 2022), 988 games released on Steam, and 99 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Dwarf Fortress (197,343 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (1,065 releases), it is 7 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	988
With a playable demo	99
Median followers, top 20 by demand	62,571
Free to play, of 966 with a known price	17 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

20%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

11%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

182

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

721

65%

——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 December 2022

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Dwarf Fortress	2022-12-06	197,343
Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator	2022-12-13	126,487
High On Life	2022-12-13	95,428
STALZONE	2022-12-09	89,569
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	2022-12-06	88,773
Need for Speed™ Unbound	2022-12-01	85,884
PROJECT: PLAYTIME	2022-12-12	80,460
Hello Neighbor 2	2022-12-06	77,571
To Be or Not to Be	2022-12-09	67,642
Choo-Choo Charles	2022-12-09	65,596