Steam releases · Week 42, 2022

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

WEEK 42 ’2217 Oct – 23 Oct 2022241 releasesMTWTFSS

week 42 of 2022 at a glance

In week 42 of 2022 (17 – 23 Oct 2022), 241 games released on Steam, and 33 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Persona 5 Royal (165,490 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (264 releases), it is 9 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	241
With a playable demo	33
Median followers, top 20 by demand	13,199
Free to play, of 235 with a known price	14 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

32%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

35%

——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

183

30%

——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
Persona 5 Royal	2022-10-20	165,490
UNCHARTED™: Legacy of Thieves Collection	2022-10-19	150,786
Vampire Survivors	2022-10-20	149,688
Backrooms: Escape Together	2022-10-18	78,818
Tower of Fantasy	2022-10-19	78,509
Potionomics	2022-10-17	36,144
FAITH: The Unholy Trinity	2022-10-21	28,767
Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® II	2022-10-22	21,266
Crash Bandicoot™ 4: It’s About Time	2022-10-18	20,884
Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & Teef	2022-10-20	19,704