Shake your moneymaker
I always enjoy winding down the year with a look atSteam’s list of best-selling games.
Besides high-profile new releases likeCyberpunk 2077and surprise indie hits likePhasmophobia, 2020 was another year of gaming dominated by old flames that we just can’t seem to break away from.
These were the “top 100 games as measured by gross revenue” on Steam in 2020:
Note: These games are grouped up by Steam, but I’ve listed the individual games in each group alphabetically.
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I’m also fascinated by Steam’smost-playedsection – the games with the highest peak concurrent players in 2020.CyberpunkandAmong Usare represented on the over-200,000-players-at-once list as you might expect, but so isLife is Strange 2. I’m genuinely surprised to see that name show up.
Another interesting tidbit viaDaniel Ahmad: a ton of us set aside time during the holidays for some (okay more than “some”) PC gaming. This year, Steam had 23 million peak concurrent users on Christmas day – a notable step up from 2019 (15.8 million users), 2018 (15.3M), and 2017 (16.2M).
If you’re curious, Steam also has a spotlight onnew releases,Early Access grads,the best of VR, andcontroller games– “the year’s top controller games as measured by daily active controller players.”
