Steam releases · Week 50, 2022

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

WEEK 50 ’2212 Dec – 18 Dec 2022266 releasesMTWTFSS

week 50 of 2022 at a glance

In week 50 of 2022 (12 – 18 Dec 2022), 266 games released on Steam, and 34 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator (126,487 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (265 releases), it is the same size. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	266
With a playable demo	34
Median followers, top 20 by demand	7,260
Free to play, of 261 with a known price	19 %
Same window a year earlier	265 (0 %)

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

38%

——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

196

58%

——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
Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator	2022-12-13	126,487
High On Life	2022-12-13	95,428
PROJECT: PLAYTIME	2022-12-12	80,460
CRISIS CORE –FINAL FANTASY VII– REUNION	2022-12-13	56,036
X-Plane 12	2022-12-17	38,251
Miss Neko 3	2022-12-18	26,583
Immortals Fenyx Rising	2022-12-15	17,582
Lil Gator Game	2022-12-14	11,259
Demeo: PC Edition	2022-12-15	8,864
Military Conflict: Vietnam	2022-12-16	8,331