Steam releases · Week 38, 2022

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

WEEK 38 ’2219 Sep – 25 Sep 2022189 releasesMTWTFSS

week 38 of 2022 at a glance

In week 38 of 2022 (19 – 25 Sep 2022), 189 games released on Steam, and 25 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Construction Simulator (69,038 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (189 releases), it is the same size. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	189
With a playable demo	25
Median followers, top 20 by demand	9,847
Free to play, of 184 with a known price	14 %
Same window a year earlier	189 (0 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Construction Simulator	2022-09-20	69,038
Potion Permit	2022-09-22	46,403
GUNDAM EVOLUTION	2022-09-19	37,657
Session: Skate Sim	2022-09-22	36,595
Prodeus	2022-09-23	33,522
Electrician Simulator	2022-09-21	24,555
There Is No Light: Enhanced Edition	2022-09-19	22,503
Soulstice	2022-09-19	18,855
SpiderHeck	2022-09-22	15,601
RUMBLE	2022-09-23	11,330

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

83%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

143

——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.