Shake your livelihood
I always like to end the year by taking a look at Steam's list of best-selling games.
Besides high-profile new releases like Cyberpunk 2077 and surprising indie hits like Phasmophobia, 2022 has been another year of gaming dominated by old flames that we simply can't part with.
Here are the "Top 100 games measured by gross revenue" on Steam in 2022:
Note: These games are grouped by Steam, but I've listed the individual games in each group alphabetically.
Platinum
- Among us
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
- cyberpunk 2077
- Destiny 2
- Eternal doom
- Dota 2
- Fall Guy: Knockout ultime
- Grand Theft Auto V
- Monster Hunter: World
- PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
- Rainbow Six Siege
- Red Dead Redemption II
Or
- Ark: Survival Evolved
- Baldur Gate 3
- Borderlands 3
- Crusader kings iii
- Death by the light of day
- Halo: the Master Chief collection
- Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
- Phasmophobia
- Sea of Thieves
- The Civilization of Sid Meier VI
- The Elder Scrolls Online
- Warframe
money
- Assassin's Creed Odyssey
- Black Desert en ligne
- Cities: Skylines
- Euro Truck Simulator 2
- Final Fantasy XIV Online
- Underworld
- Microsoft Flight Simulator
- Path of exile
- Planet Zoo
- Raft
- Rust
- Stellaris
- Team Fortress 2
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- Total War: Warhammer II
- War Thunder
Bronze
- Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition
- American Truck Simulator
- Apex Legends
- Arma 3
- Call of Duty: Black Ops III
- Command & Conquer Remastered Collection
- Conan Exiles
- Dark Souls III
- DayZ
- Death Stranding
- Deep Rock Galactic
- Divinity: Original Sin 2
- Don't starve together
- Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot
- Dying light
- Europe Universalis IV
- Fallout 4
- Fallout 76
- Far Cry 5
- Farming Simulator 19
- FIFA 21
- F
- Grounded
- GTFO
- Half-Life: Alyx
- Hearts of Iron IV
- Horizon Zero Dawn
- Human: Fall Flat
- Hunt: Showdown
- Lords Mobile
- Marvel's Avengers
- Metro Exodus
- NBA 2K20
- NBA 2K21
- No Man's Sky
- Ori and the will of the goblin fires
- Persona 4 Golden
- Pummel party
- Remainder: ashes
- Resident Evil 3
- RimWorld
- Chance of Rain 2
- Satisfactory
- Sekiro: the shadows are dying twice
- Hit
- Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
- Star Wars: Squadrons
- Stardew Valley
- Table simulator
- Temtem
- Terraria
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
- The forest
- The Hunter: The Call of the Wild
- Les Sims 4
- Total War: Three Kingdoms
- Wallpaper engine
- Wolcen: Lords of Chaos
- World of Warships
- Yu Gi Oh! Dueling Links
I'm also fascinated by Steam's 'most played' section - the games with the most concurrent players in 2022. Cyberpunk and Among Us are represented on the list of over 200 players at once, as one could to be expected, is Life is Strange 000. I'm really surprised to see that name pop up.
Another interesting tidbit via Daniel Ahmad: A ton of us set aside time during the holidays for some (much more than "some") PC games. This year, Steam had 23 million peak concurrent users on Christmas Day – a notable increase from 2022 (15,8 million users), 2022 (15,3 million) and 2022 (16,2 million) .
If you're curious, Steam is also highlighting new releases, Early Access graduates, the best in VR, and controller games – “the best controller games of the year as measured by daily active controller gamers” .
You do you, Steam. You do you.
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