Steam releases · Week 44, 2022

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

WEEK 44 ’2231 Oct – 6 Nov 2022280 releasesMTWTFSS

week 44 of 2022 at a glance

In week 44 of 2022 (31 Oct – 6 Nov 2022), 280 games released on Steam, and 37 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is The Past Within (38,699 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (225 releases), it is 24 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	280
With a playable demo	37
Median followers, top 20 by demand	3,294
Free to play, of 274 with a known price	16 %
Same window a year earlier	225 (+24 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
The Past Within	2022-11-02	38,699
Out of Ore	2022-10-31	21,408
Ghost Song	2022-11-03	16,559
WRC Generations – The FIA WRC Official Game	2022-11-03	12,902
Dreamland	2022-10-31	12,819
From Space	2022-11-03	11,388
SAO Utils 2: Progressive	2022-11-05	6,678
Eternal Evil	2022-11-01	6,232
Doors: Paradox	2022-11-04	4,805
Escape: Malice	2022-11-02	4,737

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

13%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

47%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

214

33%

——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.