Steam releases · Week 48, 2022

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

WEEK 48 ’2228 Nov – 4 Dec 2022280 releasesMTWTFSS

week 48 of 2022 at a glance

In week 48 of 2022 (28 Nov – 4 Dec 2022), 280 games released on Steam, and 34 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Warhammer 40,000: Darktide (224,218 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (254 releases), it is 10 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	280
With a playable demo	34
Median followers, top 20 by demand	2,476
Free to play, of 272 with a known price	19 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

15%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

218

78%

——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
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide	2022-11-30	224,218
Need for Speed™ Unbound	2022-12-01	85,884
End State	2022-12-01	15,634
Retro Gadgets	2022-11-30	11,329
少女妖精弹珠台 Elf Girl Pinball	2022-11-30	7,958
Moonshine Inc.	2022-12-01	5,123
Neckbreak	2022-12-01	4,132
FUCK HITLER	2022-11-30	4,069
Ticy Adventure Club	2022-12-02	3,905
Burnhouse Lane	2022-12-02	2,831