What February lacked in days of the month, it more than made up for with a fresh helping of Top Releases. As always, we look at every release for the month, highlighting the Top 20 games and Top 5 DLC releases based on the first two weeks of revenue. We also highlight the Top 5 free-to-play games, ranked by the number of unique players they acquired after launch.

The Top Releases of February 2022

It's hard to overstate the success that Lost Ark and Elden Ring achieved on Steam in February. Both RPGs generated tremendous anticipation, and both delivered on expectations for the millions of players who jumped into these worlds on day one. Success for a Top Release is nothing new, but this is the first Top Release list where two games were able to come out of the gates to chart-topping audience size. Not only did both games see their player counts peak as the most played new releases of 2022, but they also secured the #2 and #6 largest player peaks of all time on Steam! 

February also included prominent remasters of timeless genre-defining games. After becoming an RPG staple on consoles more than 25 years ago, the epic story and soundtrack of Final Fantasy VI is now fully remastered and available to a whole new generation of players on Steam. Meanwhile, the award-winning narrative adventure Life is Strange Remastered also returns with a sweeping visual overhaul, complete with updated art, enhanced mocap animations, and a host of other bonus content. We're happy that players can revisit these classics with all new content and polish, but the real thrill comes from seeing players who are lucky enough to experience them for the very first time.

We'd also like to welcome the teams that are releasing their first Steam product. Some of these developers have made games before on other platforms, while some are making the commercial debut. A big welcome and congrats go out to these development teams on their successful Steam launches.

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If you're curious about previous months, here are more Top Release lists:

• August 2021
  
• September 2021
  
• October 2021
  
• November 2021
  
• December 2021
  
• January 2022

Remote Play

• Fixed washed out colors streaming D3D9 games

Library

• Fixed some game launches becoming stuck due to Cloud sync error dialogs not being shown
  
• Added the '+' back into the Create New Collection button

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General

• Fixed missing or non-localized text in some dialogs
  
• Fixed occasional crash when navigating to collections in the library
  
• Fixed display of pending gifts in notification menu

Steam Input

• Fixed PS4 controllers on macOS
  
• Fixed Bluetooth Steam Controllers when Xbox Extended Feature Support is enabled

Remote Play

• Fixed streaming from a Windows PC to a Mac

Linux

• Fixed steamwebhelper crashes on certain installs

Note: a small addition to this update was released at 10:34 AM PST.

Library

• Added cloud status to game details screen
  
• Game list will now show cloud status icon and progress % for app when syncing / cloud error
  
• Game details screen will now show disk space required for games that are not installed
  
• Fixed screenshots not showing up for non-Steam games
  
• Fixed shelves and viewing collections imported from tags containing percent symbols (%)

Steam Cloud

• Fixed file conflict that can result from the first time playing some games on a device that has existing Cloud files from another Steam user
  
• Added sync status to App Details page in Library
  
• Added manual retry of Cloud sync for an app by clicking the above status if failed
  
• If disconnected from Steam on game exit, queue sync for next time we re-connect
  
• Fixed to properly track file changes for games which use AutoCloud when playing offline
  
• Improve game launch process when offline (remove most instances of long timeouts)
  
• Updated sync failure / conflict dialogs
  
• Fix file conflict created in some cases when the game's Steam Cloud configuration has changed

Steam Input

• Fixed loading custom controller names, PS4 lightbar, and other per-controller preferences
  
• Fixed PS4 controllers not working over Bluetooth when Xbox Extended Feature Support is enabled
  
• Improved handling of changes to controller calibration, rumble on/off settings, etc when offline
  
• Enabled gamepad support for the ASUS ROG Chakram mice

Remote Play

• Fixed controller connection issue with Remote Play Together on Windows
  
• Fixed Steam clients occasionally not reconnecting to each other after being restarted
  
• Don't automatically try to stream games from Steam Deck if they are available
  
• Game controller input is paused while the streaming client is not focused

SteamNetworkingSockets

• Fixed a bug preventing a client from making a second P2P connection to the same server

Shader Pre-Caching

• Fixed games using proton to always download shader caches immediately when installed
  
• Fixed to ensure that stale shader cache data is deleted on GPU/driver changes