Steam releases · Week 27, 2022

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

WEEK 27 ’224 Jul – 10 Jul 2022173 releasesMTWTFSS

week 27 of 2022 at a glance

In week 27 of 2022 (4 – 10 Jul 2022), 173 games released on Steam, and 18 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is MADiSON (20,546 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (142 releases), it is 22 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	173
With a playable demo	18
Median followers, top 20 by demand	847
Free to play, of 170 with a known price	19 %
Same window a year earlier	142 (+22 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
MADiSON	2022-07-07	20,546
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator	2022-07-06	16,589
Aerofly FS 4 Flight Simulator	2022-07-04	8,066
Secret Summer	2022-07-05	4,224
Resonance of the Ocean	2022-07-08	1,729
Deluge: Threnody of Crashing Waves	2022-07-07	1,222
FIGHTING GIRL SAKURA-R	2022-07-07	1,051
Furry Fantasy	2022-07-09	978
Yurukill: The Calumniation Games	2022-07-08	880
Aliens vs. Ghosts	2022-07-06	859

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

—

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

23%

——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

132

67%

——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.