Steam releases · Week 39, 2022

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

WEEK 39 ’2226 Sep – 2 Oct 2022275 releasesMTWTFSS

week 39 of 2022 at a glance

In week 39 of 2022 (26 Sep – 2 Oct 2022), 275 games released on Steam, and 30 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Grounded (332,417 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (265 releases), it is 4 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	275
With a playable demo	30
Median followers, top 20 by demand	10,531
Free to play, of 264 with a known price	15 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

37%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

16%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

211

45%

——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
Grounded	2022-09-27	332,417
Foxhole	2022-09-28	204,026
EA SPORTS™ FIFA 23	2022-09-30	155,792
Dome Keeper	2022-09-27	76,620
Kena: Bridge of Spirits	2022-09-26	67,593
Little Witch Nobeta	2022-09-28	48,011
BONELAB	2022-09-29	45,006
Despot's Game: Dystopian Battle Simulator	2022-09-29	29,652
Mystwood Manor	2022-09-30	13,491
Brewmaster: Beer Brewing Simulator	2022-09-29	12,188