Steam releases · Week 9, 2022

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

WEEK 9 ’2228 Feb – 6 Mar 2022258 releasesMTWTFSS

week 9 of 2022 at a glance

In week 9 of 2022 (28 Feb – 6 Mar 2022), 258 games released on Steam, and 40 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is ELEX II (31,325 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (202 releases), it is 28 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	258
With a playable demo	40
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,968
Free to play, of 251 with a known price	16 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

25%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

18%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

11%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

193

44%

——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
ELEX II	2022-03-01	31,325
FAR: Changing Tides	2022-03-01	24,604
Aperture Desk Job	2022-03-01	20,078
Beholder 3	2022-03-03	11,841
HordeCore	2022-03-02	7,469
Soulash	2022-03-04	6,444
Runika: A World of Little Legends	2022-03-01	2,822
Citywars Tower Defense	2022-03-03	2,495
Paint Warfare	2022-03-06	2,038
PANELKI	2022-03-04	1,993