Steam releases · Week 51, 2022

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

WEEK 51 ’2219 Dec – 25 Dec 2022222 releasesMTWTFSS

week 51 of 2022 at a glance

In week 51 of 2022 (19 – 25 Dec 2022), 222 games released on Steam, and 14 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is SCP: Labrat (11,588 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (190 releases), it is 17 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	222
With a playable demo	14
Median followers, top 20 by demand	3,208
Free to play, of 215 with a known price	13 %

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

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

16%

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

165

67%

——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
SCP: Labrat	2022-12-24	11,588
CaseCracker	2022-12-19	10,460
Sail Forth	2022-12-21	10,284
Fargone	2022-12-23	10,015
OverDrift Festival	2022-12-21	5,828
Fresh Start Cleaning Simulator	2022-12-20	4,749
Backrooms: Lost Tape	2022-12-23	4,687
Super Lesbian Animal RPG	2022-12-20	4,054
BABBDI	2022-12-22	3,416
QUEST TOGETHER Online	2022-12-24	3,220