Steam releases · Week 20, 2022

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

WEEK 20 ’2216 May – 22 May 2022258 releasesMTWTFSS

week 20 of 2022 at a glance

In week 20 of 2022 (16 – 22 May 2022), 258 games released on Steam, and 22 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Outward Definitive Edition (161,917 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (205 releases), it is 26 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	258
With a playable demo	22
Median followers, top 20 by demand	2,920
Free to play, of 253 with a known price	21 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

29%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

17%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

32%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

179

17%

——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
Outward Definitive Edition	2022-05-17	161,917
Old World	2022-05-18	79,582
Plants vs. Zombies™ Garden Warfare 2: Deluxe Edition	2022-05-16	61,074
Innocence Or Money Season 1 - Episodes 1 to 3	2022-05-20	12,638
Shelter 69 🔞[ADULT NSFW]	2022-05-16	8,488
Eternal Threads	2022-05-19	7,377
Dolmen	2022-05-20	6,463
Mists of Noyah	2022-05-22	6,114
Golf Gang	2022-05-19	4,340
Monuments Flipper: Prologue	2022-05-18	3,979