Steam releases · Week 34, 2022

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

WEEK 34 ’2222 Aug – 28 Aug 2022223 releasesMTWTFSS

week 34 of 2022 at a glance

In week 34 of 2022 (22 – 28 Aug 2022), 223 games released on Steam, and 18 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Guild Wars 2® (103,483 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (216 releases), it is 3 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	223
With a playable demo	18
Median followers, top 20 by demand	3,640
Free to play, of 220 with a known price	19 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

79%

——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

161

14%

——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
Guild Wars 2®	2022-08-23	103,483
A.V.A Global	2022-08-23	47,575
Soul Hackers 2	2022-08-25	21,498
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist	2022-08-25	14,792
The Bridge Curse Road to Salvation	2022-08-24	13,540
Train Life: A Railway Simulator	2022-08-25	8,157
Islets	2022-08-24	7,254
PAC-MAN WORLD Re-PAC	2022-08-25	6,934
Desktop Girlfriend	2022-08-23	6,799
BROK the InvestiGator	2022-08-26	5,557