Shake your money maker
I always enjoy ending the year with a look at Steam’s list of top-selling games.
Besides high-profile new releases like Cyberpunk 2077 and surprise indie hits like Fasmophobia2020 was another year of play dominated by old flames from which we apparently cannot break away.
These were the ‘top 100 games, measured by gross revenue’ on Steam in 2020:
Note: These games are grouped according to Steam, but I have listed the individual games in each group alphabetically.
Platinum
- Between us
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Destiny 2
- Doom Eternal
- Dota 2
- Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout
- Grand Theft Auto V
- Monster Hunter: World
- PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds
- Rainbow Six Siege
- Red Dead Redemption 2
Gold
- Ark: Survival Evolved
- Baldur’s Gate 3
- Borderlands 3
- Crusader Kings III
- Death by daily
- Halo: The Master Chief Collection
- Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
- Fasmophobia
- Sea of Thieves
- Sid Meier’s Civilization VI
- The Elder Scrolls Online
- Warframe
Silver
- Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
- Black Desert Online
- Location: Skylines
- Euro Truck Simulator 2
- Final Fantasy XIV online
- Hades
- Microsoft Flight Simulator
- Path of exile
- Planet Zoo
- Fluent
- Rust
- Stellaris
- Spanfort 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
- Remastered Command & Conquer Collection
- Conan Ballinge
- Dark Souls III
- DayZ
- Death Stranding
- Deep Rock Galactic
- Divinity: Original Sin 2
- Do not starve together
- Dragon Ball Z: Cockroaches
- Dying light
- Europa Universalis IV
- Outcome 4
- Dropout 76
- Far Cry 5
- Farm simulator 19
- FIFA 21
- Soccer Manager 2021
- Based
- GTFO
- Half-life: Alyx
- Hearts of iron IV
- Horizon Zero Dawn
- Human: Fall flat
- I: power measurement
- Lords Mobile
- Marvel’s Avengers
- Metro exit
- NBA 2K20
- NBA 2K21
- No Man’s Sky
- Ori and the Will of the Wisps
- Persona 4 Gold
- Pummel Party
- Remains: From the ashes
- Resident Evil 3
- RimWorld
- Risk of rain 2
- Satisfactory
- Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
- Smite
- Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
- Star Wars: Squadrons
- Stardew valley
- Table simulator
- Temtem
- Terraria
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
- The forest
- The Hunter: Call of the Wild
- The Sims 4
- Total War: Three Kingdoms
- Wallpaper Engine
- Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem
- World of warships
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links
I’m also fascinated by Steam’s most played section – the games with the highest peak of simultaneous players in 2020. Cyberpunk and Between us is represented on the more than 200,000 players simultaneous list as you would expect, but it is also so Life is weird 2. I’m really surprised to see the name appear.
Another interesting treat via Daniel Ahmad: a lot of us set aside time during the holidays for some (okay more than ‘some’) computer games. This year, Steam had 23 million simultaneous peak users on Christmas Day – a notable increase from 2019 (15.8 million users), 2018 (15.3 million) and 2017 (16.2 million).
If you’re curious, Steam also has a spotlight on new releases, Early Access ratings, the best of VR and control games – “the year’s best control games as measured by daily active controller players.”
You do it, steam. You do your.
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