Thursday, December 26th 2019
Steam Reveals Its Top Sellers for 2019
Steam has revealed the games that sold the most on the platform for this year of 2019. While Steam's own numbers don't represent the entirety of the PC market - considering other digital storefronts such as GOG, EPIC Games Store and publisher-exclusive stores like Origin also have a relevant market share - this does let us take a considered peek at the PC gaming landscape. Steam's top sellers also includes top grossing, where games that have store-bound skins or extras are also taken into account).
Steam's Platinum lineup includes all the hallmarks of PC gaming: online experiences such as Warframe, DOTA 2, PUBG, and the Elder Scrolls Online, through strategy experiences such as Civilization VI and Total War: Three Kingdoms. Considering that Destiny 2 also made it in the platform, many gamers actually enjoy that experience - it is unclear if Steam considers every redeem from the Blizzard store into the Steam Store a sale, but if not, it's mighty impressive that a game that released on October 1st.Moving on to the second category, and Gold-rated games by virtue of their sales includes the excellent The Witcher III: Wild Hunt, which has received a definite boost from the expectation and popularity of the recently-launched Netflix series: though to say that the game rocketed to Gold position on the back of the Netflix show would just be naive. It is an excellent game, and an excellent experience, and that shows. Halo: The Master Chief Collection has only launched on of its bundled six games - and on December 3rd, no less - but that and the time available for pre order has ensured an extremely healthy Gold sales spot for the collection. Red Dead Redemption only made it into the Silver tier, which may come as a surprise.Games with more than 100,000 simultaneous players include Total War: Three Kingdoms, Sekiro, Halo: The Master Chief Collection, and Destiny 2.VR games that sold the most include Fallout 4 VR and The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim VR, while Valve's own Half Life Alyx only made it into the Gold tier - which may make sense considering the game was only announcedin the end of November.
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Steam's Platinum lineup includes all the hallmarks of PC gaming: online experiences such as Warframe, DOTA 2, PUBG, and the Elder Scrolls Online, through strategy experiences such as Civilization VI and Total War: Three Kingdoms. Considering that Destiny 2 also made it in the platform, many gamers actually enjoy that experience - it is unclear if Steam considers every redeem from the Blizzard store into the Steam Store a sale, but if not, it's mighty impressive that a game that released on October 1st.Moving on to the second category, and Gold-rated games by virtue of their sales includes the excellent The Witcher III: Wild Hunt, which has received a definite boost from the expectation and popularity of the recently-launched Netflix series: though to say that the game rocketed to Gold position on the back of the Netflix show would just be naive. It is an excellent game, and an excellent experience, and that shows. Halo: The Master Chief Collection has only launched on of its bundled six games - and on December 3rd, no less - but that and the time available for pre order has ensured an extremely healthy Gold sales spot for the collection. Red Dead Redemption only made it into the Silver tier, which may come as a surprise.Games with more than 100,000 simultaneous players include Total War: Three Kingdoms, Sekiro, Halo: The Master Chief Collection, and Destiny 2.VR games that sold the most include Fallout 4 VR and The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim VR, while Valve's own Half Life Alyx only made it into the Gold tier - which may make sense considering the game was only announcedin the end of November.
17 Comments on Steam Reveals Its Top Sellers for 2019
Tried the free version of Destiny 2 when it was under Blizzard but I'm yet to install the Steam version since they moved,even tho I did migrate my account/chars.
Also, nice to see some older games still get quite a bit of love, like Age of Empires II (both the 2013 HD edition and the new Definitive Edition) and Left 4 Dead 2.
I'll say, though, I didn't expect No Man's Sky to be that popular still, surpassing the 50k simultaneous players mark...
EDIT: LOL nevermind this is the same list just jumbled around Yeah there are settings in Wallpaper Engine that allows you to not let the Steam Overlay show it as a game (similar to Borderless Gaming). I use it myself and also have it start up with Windows but you can have other games take over your currently playing status.
Granted, it only shows
today'scurrently most played, but it can give you an idea.686k versus 8.3 million. well I was close :D
- CS:GO peak concurrent player count is 830K. Keep in mind that CS:GO has been a game you need to buy for most of its lifetime (which is since 2012).
- PUBG is probably a better comparison to Fortnite and this one peaked at 3.2M (on Steam alone) if I remember correctly and that is also a paid game.
- Fortnite player count includes mobile crowd, which is incredibly massive. I would really like to see a breakdown of Fortnite usage statistics in terms of platforms.
I mean it has a lot of players but a lot of them are really disappointed at the quality of current updates and content in general...
DE the developer make very big promises when it comes to content but whatever gets released is pretty stale and a lot of veterans have actually quit the game