Shake your winner
I always like to end the year by looking at the list of Steam’s best-selling games.
In addition to new high-level launches such as Cyberpunk 2077 and amazing indie hits like Fasophobia, 2020 was another year of games dominated by old flames from which we simply cannot escape.
These were the “100 best games measured by gross revenue” on Steam in 2020:
Note: These games are grouped by Steam, but I have listed the individual games in each group in alphabetical order.
Platinum
- Among 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
- Dead by daylight
- Halo: The Master Chief Collection
- Mount and blade II: Bannerlord
- Fasophobia
- Sea of thieves
- Sid Meier’s Civilization VI
- The Elder Scrolls Online
- Warframe
Silver
- Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
- Black Desert Online
- Cities: Skylines
- Euro Truck Simulator 2
- Final Fantasy XIV Online
- Hades
- Microsoft Flight Simulator
- Way of exile
- Planet Zoo
- Raft
- Rust
- Stellaris
- Team Fortress 2
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- Total War: Warhammer II
- War Thunder
Bronze
- Age of Empires II: definitive edition
- American Truck Simulator
- Apex Legends
- Weapon 3
- Call of Duty: Black Ops III
- Command & Conquer Remastered Collection
- Conan Exiles
- Dark Souls III
- DayZ
- Death Stranding
- Deep Rock Galactic
- Divinity: Original Sin 2
- Don’t starve together
- Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot
- Dying light
- Europa Universalis IV
- Fallout 4
- Fallout 76
- Far Cry 5
- Farming Simulator 19
- FIFA 21
- Football Manager 2021
- Grounded
- GTFO
- Half-life: Alyx
- Iron Hearts IV
- Horizon Zero Dawn
- Human: Fall Flat
- Hunt: Showdown
- Lords Mobile
- Marvel Avengers
- Metro Exodus
- NBA 2K20
- NBA 2K21
- Nobody’s heaven
- Ori and the Will of the Wisps
- Persona 4 Golden
- Pummel Party
- Remnant: Das Cinzas
- Resident Evil 3
- RimWorld
- Risk of rain 2
- Satisfactory
- Sekiro: the shadows die twice
- Break up
- Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
- Star Wars: Squads
- Stardew Valley
- Table simulator
- Have got has got
- 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 the most played section of Steam – the games with the highest peak of simultaneous players in 2020. Cyberpunk and Among us are represented on the list of more than 200,000 players at once as you might expect, but this is also Life is strange 2. I am genuinely surprised to see that name appear.
Another interesting rumor via Daniel Ahmad: many of us take time out on vacation for some (ok more than “some”) PC games. This year, Steam had 23 million peak simultaneous users on Christmas Day – a notable increase over 2019 (15.8 million users), 2018 (15.3 million) and 2017 (16.2 million).
If you’re curious, Steam also highlights new releases, Early Access students, the best of VR and control games – “the best control games of the year, measured by daily active control players.”
You do it, Steam. You do you.
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