Friday, December 28th 2018
Steam Reveals "Best of 2018" Listings With Multiple "Top Sellers" and "Top Played" Duplicates
Steam has releases its statistics for the state of gaming in 2018, where the company reveals which games provided the most engagement, either in sales or players, throughout the year. Top Sellers, Top New Releases, Top Selling VR Titles, Top Early Access Grads, and Most Played Games are the categories across which Steam divided 2018's games, and some of these found themselves on the top spot of more than one category.
Warframe, DOTA 2, Monster Hunter: World, PUBG and CS: GO all find themselves on the Platinum tier of both the Top Sellers and Top Played categories, with more than 100,000 concurrent players at some point in time. The Witcher 3 finds itself in the Gold category of the Top sellers, again, and in the Silver category for Top played. No man's Sky, Stellaris, and Kingdom Come: Deliverance all find themselves in the Gold tier of the Top played game as well, with more than 50,000 concurrent players - No man's Sky, for one, surprises here. The game with one of the worst receptions ever has actually managed to keep relevant for much, much longer than other, much more critically-acclaimed games. Check out the top tiers in the images below.
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Warframe, DOTA 2, Monster Hunter: World, PUBG and CS: GO all find themselves on the Platinum tier of both the Top Sellers and Top Played categories, with more than 100,000 concurrent players at some point in time. The Witcher 3 finds itself in the Gold category of the Top sellers, again, and in the Silver category for Top played. No man's Sky, Stellaris, and Kingdom Come: Deliverance all find themselves in the Gold tier of the Top played game as well, with more than 50,000 concurrent players - No man's Sky, for one, surprises here. The game with one of the worst receptions ever has actually managed to keep relevant for much, much longer than other, much more critically-acclaimed games. Check out the top tiers in the images below.
49 Comments on Steam Reveals "Best of 2018" Listings With Multiple "Top Sellers" and "Top Played" Duplicates
Most played; the only new game in that top list is Monster Hunter World... which is a port :D
Top Sellers: MH:W and Odyssey. The rest is pre-2018
what is love?
Honestly its been such a bad year for gaming. and i have no interest in red dead, call of duty or battlefield 5.
I guess TF2 is still high up on the list because it is F2P. doesnt need absolutely star system destroyer in terms of hardware to run, works on an apple computer and still pretty fun to play.
Having that PC + PS4 combo is the best experience nowadays imo. Having a PC only, is not feasible to me anymore. Would be missing some great experiences.
I still maintain Indies saved the year. You never see those in these lists.
Not mad btw.
Personally with all the PC bollocks and SJW BS, is only going make games even worse in time to come, i have already stopped watching TV\film's as it's just the same BS pushed in your face.
But i guess they will blame piracy again for low sales.
Modern shooters, with their customization skins masking their classes and fully customization load-outs, dont do this, and as a result inflict more frustration on casual players like myself that only play a few hours a week at most. It takes time to learn all the different combinations, as opposed to a few minutes in TF2. As a result, TF2 is a huge magnet for casual players, and such keeps the player base high, allowing for more player sot enjoy the game and keep it alive long after competitors died off.
There are other classic FPS games that follow this formula, like the old battlefront games and older battlefield titles, and those still have vibrant, lively communities as well.Yeah, its still a grind fest with a barebones story and the fully random nature will screw you more often then not in early gameplay. The worlds are more detailed but still use copy-pasted elements, and they still dont have the charm from a game like minecraft, which manages to make biomes and worlds feel completely different with just blocks.
The controls are still awkward, the gameplay is still "grind to improve your ship to grind more to improve your ship to grind more", and there is still no point to actually finishing the game or learning alien words.
Why NMS gets praise now is beyond me. It still is a shell of a game with barebones story elements. Freespace 2 does the space thing 1,000,000,000% better, and minecraft does world exploration and crafting 1,000,000,000% better. AND both these games offer boatloads of mods, including total conversion mods, providing endless hours of additional content, while NMS has mods like "turn off voice reminders" and "slightly different colors".
GTA5, Warframe, DBD, they just keep going for years with new content the entire time, im all for it myself.