Steam releases · Week 1, 2022

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

WEEK 1 ’22Jan 3 – Jan 9, 2022185 releasesMTWTFSS

week 1 of 2022 at a glance

In week 1 of 2022 (Jan 3 – 9, 2022), 185 games released on Steam, and 22 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Easy Red 2 (59,600 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (150 releases), it is 23 % busier. Data as of 2026-09-13.

window at a glance
Releases scheduled	185
With a playable demo	22
Median followers, top 20 by demand	490
Free to play, of 162 with a known price	15 %
Same window a year earlier	150 (+23 %)
Data as of	2026-09-13

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Easy Red 2	2022-01-06	59,600
Ghost Exile	2022-01-07	7,699
Electrician Simulator - First Shock	2022-01-06	7,448
Crowalt: Traces of the Lost Colony	2022-01-06	3,144
Lily's Well	2022-01-03	2,113
Smart Factory Tycoon: Beginnings	2022-01-05	1,478
DARK OF CHROE	2022-01-05	1,096
Insomnis	2022-01-07	1,037
Edengrall	2022-01-07	593
幻想三国志4外传	2022-01-08	531

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

79%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

143

16%

——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.