Steam releases · Week 2, 2022

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

WEEK 2 ’2210 Jan – 16 Jan 2022199 releasesMTWTFSS

week 2 of 2022 at a glance

In week 2 of 2022 (10 – 16 Jan 2022), 199 games released on Steam, and 22 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is God of War (300,541 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (132 releases), it is 51 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	199
With a playable demo	22
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,408
Free to play, of 191 with a known price	18 %
Same window a year earlier	132 (+51 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
God of War	2022-01-14	300,541
DeadPoly	2022-01-12	32,639
Black One Blood Brothers	2022-01-11	18,901
Draconia	2022-01-13	14,429
Super Meat Boy Forever	2022-01-10	9,430
hOrnyWars	2022-01-12	3,899
How Fish Is Made	2022-01-14	2,754
Hollow's Land	2022-01-13	2,360
大富翁少女/Rich Girls	2022-01-10	2,321
Crystal Clash	2022-01-14	2,002

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

10%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

19%

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

151

71%

——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.