Steam releases · Q3 2022

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

Q3 20221 Jul – 30 Sep 20222,913 releasesJAS

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Q3 2022 at a glance

In Q3 2022 (1 Jul – 30 Sep 2022), 2,913 games released on Steam, and 327 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Stray (381,733 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (2,660 releases), it is 10 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	2,913
With a playable demo	327
Median followers, top 20 by demand	76,620
Free to play, of 2,836 with a known price	19 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

21%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

13%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

106

25%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

120

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

474

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

2,160

32%

——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 Q3 2022

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Stray	2022-07-19	381,733
Stranded Deep	2022-08-10	352,260
Grounded	2022-09-27	332,417
Cult of the Lamb	2022-08-11	275,448
Foxhole	2022-09-28	204,026
EA SPORTS™ FIFA 23	2022-09-30	155,792
House Party	2022-07-15	134,654
Guild Wars 2®	2022-08-23	103,483
FreshWomen - Season 1	2022-08-19	102,546
PowerWash Simulator	2022-07-14	89,206