Steam releases · August 2022

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

Aug 20221 Aug – 31 Aug 2022984 releases

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August 2022 at a glance

In August 2022 (1 – 31 Aug 2022), 984 games released on Steam, and 109 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Stranded Deep (352,260 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (938 releases), it is 5 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	984
With a playable demo	109
Median followers, top 20 by demand	34,140
Free to play, of 955 with a known price	21 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

28%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

18%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

27%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

170

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

714

18%

——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 August 2022

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Stranded Deep	2022-08-10	352,260
Cult of the Lamb	2022-08-11	275,448
Guild Wars 2®	2022-08-23	103,483
FreshWomen - Season 1	2022-08-19	102,546
Quake Champions	2022-08-18	64,564
Two Point Campus	2022-08-09	54,850
A.V.A Global	2022-08-23	47,575
PlateUp!	2022-08-04	44,982
Way of the Hunter	2022-08-16	43,848
Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll	2022-08-04	40,958