Released as Steam's Summer sale closed out, a dozen titles, old and new, made the top tier of its half-year bestseller's review, from Dota 2 through to this year's Jurassic World Evolution.
Battle Royale blockbuster Fortnite isn't on Steam, but PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is and, according to Steam's official and mildly obfuscated mid-year rankings, the latter is one of the PC gaming platform's bestsellers and one of its most played games.
Rather than give out precise sales figures, Steam divided its list of best-selling titles into four tiers: Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum.
Half of the 12 games in the Platinum section also achieved simultaneous player counts of over 100,000, according to a separate mid-year rundown.
Thanks to independent API-monitoring services like SteamCharts and SteamDB we know that March 2017's "PUBG" crowned them all with a headcount of 3.2 million players on Jan 13, though it has been trending downward ever since.
Joining "PUBG" in the Platinum sales category were two titles developed by Steam owner Valve, Dota 2, which was first released in 2012, and had 850,000 simultaneous players after the crowdfunding campaign for its 2018 world championships went live in May, as well as Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, another 2012 launch, and one which attracted 700,000 concurrent players in January, around the time of a Major Championship event in Boston.
Also making the Platinum grade were Rainbow Six Siege (released in 2015, 170,000 to 180,000 players in March when its first batch of Year 3 content went live), Grand Theft Auto V (released on PC in 2015, 168,000 players in the first week of January), and Warframe (a radically improved 2013 launch with a peak of 129,000 players on June 15 when a big expansion arrived).
Of those, Dota 2 and Warframe are both free-to-play, making their money through various optional additional purchases.
Steam's six other best-sellers for the first six months of the year were Civilization VI, released in 2016, Rocket League, released in 2015, and a quartet of 2018 debuts in Warhammer: Vermintide 2, Far Cry 5, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, and Jurassic World Evolution, all with player counts between 50,000 and 100,000.
Another chart also presented a collection of each month's bestsellers, while a fourth looked at top VR titles. — AFP Relaxnews
Battle Royale blockbuster Fortnite isn't on Steam, but PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is and, according to Steam's official and mildly obfuscated mid-year rankings, the latter is one of the PC gaming platform's bestsellers and one of its most played games.
Rather than give out precise sales figures, Steam divided its list of best-selling titles into four tiers: Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum.
Half of the 12 games in the Platinum section also achieved simultaneous player counts of over 100,000, according to a separate mid-year rundown.
Thanks to independent API-monitoring services like SteamCharts and SteamDB we know that March 2017's "PUBG" crowned them all with a headcount of 3.2 million players on Jan 13, though it has been trending downward ever since.
Joining "PUBG" in the Platinum sales category were two titles developed by Steam owner Valve, Dota 2, which was first released in 2012, and had 850,000 simultaneous players after the crowdfunding campaign for its 2018 world championships went live in May, as well as Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, another 2012 launch, and one which attracted 700,000 concurrent players in January, around the time of a Major Championship event in Boston.
Also making the Platinum grade were Rainbow Six Siege (released in 2015, 170,000 to 180,000 players in March when its first batch of Year 3 content went live), Grand Theft Auto V (released on PC in 2015, 168,000 players in the first week of January), and Warframe (a radically improved 2013 launch with a peak of 129,000 players on June 15 when a big expansion arrived).
Of those, Dota 2 and Warframe are both free-to-play, making their money through various optional additional purchases.
Steam's six other best-sellers for the first six months of the year were Civilization VI, released in 2016, Rocket League, released in 2015, and a quartet of 2018 debuts in Warhammer: Vermintide 2, Far Cry 5, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, and Jurassic World Evolution, all with player counts between 50,000 and 100,000.
Another chart also presented a collection of each month's bestsellers, while a fourth looked at top VR titles. — AFP Relaxnews
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