Steam releases · Week 40, 2022

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

WEEK 40 ’223 Oct – 9 Oct 2022220 releasesMTWTFSS

week 40 of 2022 at a glance

In week 40 of 2022 (3 – 9 Oct 2022), 220 games released on Steam, and 19 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is SUPER PEOPLE (175,483 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (227 releases), it is 3 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	220
With a playable demo	19
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,944
Free to play, of 217 with a known price	21 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

25%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

162

61%

——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
SUPER PEOPLE	2022-10-08	175,483
Dakar Desert Rally	2022-10-04	9,710
Bombergrounds: Reborn	2022-10-06	9,035
I got a millenary cat	2022-10-06	7,130
Oxygen: First Breath	2022-10-07	6,156
CHAOS;HEAD NOAH	2022-10-07	4,860
Nomad Survival	2022-10-08	3,928
Passed Out: Prologue	2022-10-09	2,775
Bakso Simulator	2022-10-08	2,441
Craft Hero	2022-10-09	2,271