Steam releases · Week 8, 2022

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

WEEK 8 ’2221 Feb – 27 Feb 2022205 releasesMTWTFSS

week 8 of 2022 at a glance

In week 8 of 2022 (21 – 27 Feb 2022), 205 games released on Steam, and 17 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is ELDEN RING (1,192,308 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (228 releases), it is 10 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	205
With a playable demo	17
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,685
Free to play, of 203 with a known price	16 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

98%

——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

160

——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
ELDEN RING	2022-02-24	1,192,308
SCP: 5K	2022-02-22	97,119
FINAL FANTASY VI	2022-02-23	21,268
Martha Is Dead	2022-02-24	20,970
Atelier Sophie 2: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Dream	2022-02-24	20,795
Blade&Sword	2022-02-23	3,925
Milling machine simulator	2022-02-22	3,620
FPS Game: Dev Test	2022-02-26	2,668
Ghost on the Shore	2022-02-24	2,306
VRM Posing Desktop	2022-02-27	1,710