Steam releases · Week 17, 2022

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

WEEK 17 ’2225 Apr – 1 May 2022214 releasesMTWTFSS

week 17 of 2022 at a glance

In week 17 of 2022 (25 Apr – 1 May 2022), 214 games released on Steam, and 21 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Prehistoric Kingdom (76,573 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (217 releases), it is 1 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	214
With a playable demo	21
Median followers, top 20 by demand	5,325
Free to play, of 212 with a known price	18 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

15%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

159

80%

——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
Prehistoric Kingdom	2022-04-27	76,573
Dorfromantik	2022-04-28	75,230
Rogue Legacy 2	2022-04-28	57,878
Bugsnax	2022-04-28	12,472
The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall	2022-04-26	10,520
THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD: Remake	2022-04-28	10,226
The Elder Scrolls: Arena	2022-04-26	7,259
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory	2022-04-26	6,421
Police Shootout: Prologue	2022-04-26	6,133
Kapital: Sparks of Revolution	2022-04-28	5,537