Steam releases · March 2022

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

Mar 20221 Mar – 31 Mar 20221,014 releases

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March 2022 at a glance

In March 2022 (1 – 31 Mar 2022), 1,014 games released on Steam, and 128 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT (119,661 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (830 releases), it is 22 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	1,014
With a playable demo	128
Median followers, top 20 by demand	15,889
Free to play, of 981 with a known price	15 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

13%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

200

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

723

81%

——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 March 2022

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT	2022-03-30	119,661
Dungeon Alchemist	2022-03-31	52,827
OBS Studio	2022-03-21	49,992
Coromon	2022-03-31	36,140
ELEX II	2022-03-01	31,325
Distant Worlds 2	2022-03-10	30,166
FAR: Changing Tides	2022-03-01	24,604
Café Stella and the Reaper's Butterflies	2022-03-25	21,715
Aperture Desk Job	2022-03-01	20,078
Persona 4 Arena Ultimax	2022-03-16	18,551