Steam releases · Week 43, 2022

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

WEEK 43 ’2224 Oct – 30 Oct 2022272 releasesMTWTFSS

week 43 of 2022 at a glance

In week 43 of 2022 (24 – 30 Oct 2022), 272 games released on Steam, and 39 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord (919,118 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (251 releases), it is 8 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	272
With a playable demo	39
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,655
Free to play, of 264 with a known price	11 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

81%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——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

194

18%

——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
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord	2022-10-25	919,118
Call of Duty®	2022-10-27	722,280
Victoria 3	2022-10-25	190,535
Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander	2022-10-24	69,879
Sackboy™: A Big Adventure	2022-10-27	40,128
AdventureQuest 3D	2022-10-28	20,913
The Classrooms	2022-10-28	9,842
RealFlight Evolution	2022-10-27	6,749
OnlyFap Simulator 3 💦	2022-10-29	2,633
Bone's Cafe	2022-10-29	1,884