Steam releases · Q1 2022

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

Q1 20221 Jan – 31 Mar 20222,680 releasesJFM

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Q1 2022 at a glance

In Q1 2022 (1 Jan – 31 Mar 2022), 2,680 games released on Steam, and 290 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is ELDEN RING (1,192,308 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (2,954 releases), it is 9 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	2,680
With a playable demo	290
Median followers, top 20 by demand	67,706
Free to play, of 2,590 with a known price	17 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

48%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

105

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

514

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

1,948

41%

——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 Q1 2022

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
ELDEN RING	2022-02-24	1,192,308
Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition	2022-02-03	436,327
Total War: WARHAMMER III	2022-02-16	321,838
God of War	2022-01-14	300,302
Lost Ark	2022-02-11	276,204
嗜血印 Bloody Spell	2022-01-26	171,413
HITMAN World of Assassination	2022-01-20	146,290
DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT	2022-03-30	119,661
SCP: 5K	2022-02-22	97,119
Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel	2022-01-18	80,909