Steam releases · May 2022

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

May 20221 May – 31 May 20221,023 releases

Apr 2022 Now Jun 2022

May 2022 at a glance

In May 2022 (1 – 31 May 2022), 1,023 games released on Steam, and 101 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Outward Definitive Edition (161,917 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (799 releases), it is 28 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	1,023
With a playable demo	101
Median followers, top 20 by demand	21,612
Free to play, of 1,006 with a known price	20 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——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

199

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

750

76%

——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 May 2022

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Outward Definitive Edition	2022-05-17	161,917
Sniper Elite 5	2022-05-25	91,880
Hardspace: Shipbreaker	2022-05-24	87,714
Captain of Industry	2022-05-31	87,184
Old World	2022-05-18	79,582
Plants vs. Zombies™ Garden Warfare 2: Deluxe Edition	2022-05-16	61,074
Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Mega Mix+	2022-05-26	52,876
We Were Here Forever	2022-05-10	45,859
RetroArch	2022-05-27	45,783
Keplerth	2022-05-23	40,821