Steam releases · Week 49, 2022

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

WEEK 49 ’225 Dec – 11 Dec 2022240 releasesMTWTFSS

week 49 of 2022 at a glance

In week 49 of 2022 (5 – 11 Dec 2022), 240 games released on Steam, and 22 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Dwarf Fortress (197,343 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (207 releases), it is 16 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	240
With a playable demo	22
Median followers, top 20 by demand	13,037
Free to play, of 232 with a known price	22 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

19%

——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

167

74%

——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
Dwarf Fortress	2022-12-06	197,343
STALZONE	2022-12-09	89,569
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	2022-12-06	88,773
Hello Neighbor 2	2022-12-06	77,571
To Be or Not to Be	2022-12-09	67,642
Choo-Choo Charles	2022-12-09	65,596
Knights of Honor II: Sovereign	2022-12-06	62,571
Chained Echoes	2022-12-08	47,385
Fear & Hunger 2: Termina	2022-12-09	30,427
SAMURAI MAIDEN	2022-12-08	13,803