Steam releases · Week 1, 2022

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

WEEK 1 ’223 Jan – 9 Jan 2022169 releasesMTWTFSS

week 1 of 2022 at a glance

In week 1 of 2022 (3 – 9 Jan 2022), 169 games released on Steam, and 22 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Easy Red 2 (61,046 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (144 releases), it is 17 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	169
With a playable demo	22
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,478
Free to play, of 164 with a known price	16 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

74%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

118

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.

Game	Release	Followers
Easy Red 2	2022-01-06	61,046
Internet Cafe Simulator 2	2022-01-07	24,103
Ghost Exile	2022-01-07	7,761
Electrician Simulator - First Shock	2022-01-06	7,455
Fears to Fathom - Norwood Hitchhike	2022-01-06	6,184
Crowalt: Traces of the Lost Colony	2022-01-06	3,147
天师	2022-01-04	2,660
Climbey	2022-01-08	2,256
Lily's Well	2022-01-03	2,136
You Will (Not) Remain	2022-01-06	2,025