Steam releases · Week 33, 2022

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

WEEK 33 ’2215 Aug – 21 Aug 2022202 releasesMTWTFSS

week 33 of 2022 at a glance

In week 33 of 2022 (15 – 21 Aug 2022), 202 games released on Steam, and 30 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is FreshWomen - Season 1 (102,546 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (198 releases), it is 2 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	202
With a playable demo	30
Median followers, top 20 by demand	6,701
Free to play, of 199 with a known price	22 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

16%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

51%

——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

140

26%

——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
FreshWomen - Season 1	2022-08-19	102,546
Quake Champions	2022-08-18	64,564
Way of the Hunter	2022-08-16	43,848
Across the Obelisk	2022-08-16	34,140
Regiments	2022-08-16	30,608
Spirit of the Island	2022-08-17	16,488
Sir Whoopass™: Immortal Death	2022-08-18	10,956
Rollerdrome	2022-08-16	10,783
Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend	2022-08-17	7,430
natsuno-kanata - beyond the summer	2022-08-17	7,018