Steam releases · Week 28, 2022

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

WEEK 28 ’2211 Jul – 17 Jul 2022259 releasesMTWTFSS

week 28 of 2022 at a glance

In week 28 of 2022 (11 – 17 Jul 2022), 259 games released on Steam, and 29 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is House Party (134,654 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	259
With a playable demo	29
Median followers, top 20 by demand	2,418
Free to play, of 253 with a known price	16 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

14%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

11%

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

183

64%

——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
House Party	2022-07-15	134,654
PowerWash Simulator	2022-07-14	89,206
Clanfolk	2022-07-14	53,200
Rune Factory 5	2022-07-13	25,381
WARRIORS OROCHI 3 Ultimate Definitive Edition	2022-07-12	16,779
FPS Chess	2022-07-16	10,700
Escape Academy	2022-07-13	9,675
梦江湖	2022-07-12	5,430
Indecent Desires	2022-07-13	3,673
Esse Proxy	2022-07-11	2,769