Valve has unveiled Steam’s Best of 2020 ‘list, which sets out what 2020’s biggest and most lucrative games were on its PC store.
It does not look the page arranges the games in order, but according to the latest statistics, Among Us, Destiny 2, en PUBG was one of the games with the highest peak concurrent users – they all picked up over 200,000 peak players – while Rainbow Six Siege, GTA 5, en Monster Hunter World was the year’s most lucrative games on Steam.
In terms of the biggest new releases of 2020, the platform cites Crusader Kings 3, Flight Simulator and Mount and Blade II: Bannerlord as the biggest debut of the year.
The highly anticipated Cyberpunk 2077 has appeared on almost every shortlist, indicating that it’s one of Steam’s biggest new, most played versions, and of the year’s top sellers as well.
ICYMI, Valve smashed its own record for most users simultaneously just before the holidays on its Steam platform and 24,776,635 simultaneous users. Although this is not confirmed, it is speculated that the release of Cyberpunk 2077 and another increase in COVID-19 worldwide have resulted in more people staying home and jumping online than usual.
Steam’s upward trend began in January when Chinese citizens began isolating themselves at the start of the COVID-19 crisis. On February 2, Steam’s previous record of 18,537,490 users – set in January 2018 – surpassed, which broke the existing record with an impressive 300,000 and reached a peak of 18,801,944 players. It has since been broken several times, including a weekend in March numbers exceed 20 million for the first time, and then 22 million just a week later.
As we reported before the holidays, Cyberpunk 2077 is the new most played game on Steam, surpasses like Dota 2 and CS: GO with over one million simultaneous players, even though it’s purely single player.
Not only does this mean that Cyberpunk surpasses 2077 multiplayer giants like Dota 2 and CS: GO, but he also set another simultaneous record on Steam for the most played single-player game. As SteamDB showed at the time, Cyberpunk 2077 places a peak of just over 1,000,000 active players on Steam, placing it head and shoulders above both Terraria, which held the previous record at 490,000 players, and Fallout 4 at 473,000 players .
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