Steam releases · Week 31, 2022

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

WEEK 31 ’221 Aug – 7 Aug 2022232 releasesMTWTFSS

week 31 of 2022 at a glance

In week 31 of 2022 (1 – 7 Aug 2022), 232 games released on Steam, and 29 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is PlateUp! (44,982 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (186 releases), it is 25 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	232
With a playable demo	29
Median followers, top 20 by demand	3,610
Free to play, of 222 with a known price	19 %
Same window a year earlier	186 (+25 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
PlateUp!	2022-08-04	44,982
Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll	2022-08-04	40,958
Hard West 2	2022-08-04	24,927
Asphalt Legends	2022-08-02	23,205
Star Valor	2022-08-03	17,907
GigaBash	2022-08-04	14,696
Solace Crafting	2022-08-01	12,463
Boat Crew	2022-08-01	5,879
Dynamic Dungeons Editor	2022-08-01	3,988
Koishi Navigation Desktop Youkai	2022-08-02	3,716

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

67%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

183

31%

——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.