There are only a few days left for the new year, and as every year, many platforms shared the best of this year. Now, Steam, the world’s most popular digital content store, has announced the best-selling and most popular games of 2022.
Best selling games on Steam! (2022)
Steam, by creating a page named the best of 2022, all the games included; presented this year by dividing them into bestsellers, new releases, most played, early access, best in VR and Steam Deck categories.
Steam does not provide information about the gross revenues of the games on the page. Instead, the platform has divided productions’ earnings this year into Platinum, Gold, Bronze and Silver classes, from high to low. In this way, although we cannot learn about their net earnings, it is possible to estimate them. The best-selling games on Steam were listed as follows;
Platinum
- Dota 2
- Dying Light 2 Stay Human
- PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS
- NARAKA: BLADEPOINT
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
- ELDEN RING
- Lost Ark
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
- MONSTER HUNTER RISE
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel
- Destiny 2
- Apex Legends
Gold
- God of War
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Forza Horizon 5
- Total War: WARHAMMER 3
- Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege
- Dead by Daylight
- Warframe
- FIFA 23
- War Thunder
- Ready or Not
- Grand Theft Auto 5
- Red Dead Redemption 2
Silver
- Stray
- V Rising
- Team Fortress 2
- Project Zombie
- Black Desert
- phasmophobia
- Hunt: Showdown
- rust
- The Forest
- RimWorld
- Sea of Thieves
- FIFA 22
- The Elder Scrolls Online
- Sid Meier’s Civilization 6
- The Sims 4
- NBA 2K22
- Cult of the Lamb
- It Takes Two
- Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
- Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered
- LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
- Stellaris
- raft
- FINAL FANTASY XIV Online
- Stellaris
Bronze
- World of Warships
- Wallpaper Engine
- Victoria 3
- Farming Simulator 22
- Euro Truck Simulator 2
- Forza Horizon 4
- Football Manager 2023
- Risk of Rain 2
- ARK: Survival Evolved
- Satisfactory
- Stardew Valley
- Arma 3
- Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
- SMITE
- American Truck Simulator
- Valheim
- grounded
- Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- Dread Hunger
- Deep Rock Galactic
- Persona 5 Royal
- F1 22
- Crusader Kings III
- Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition
- Planet Zoo
- No Man’s Sky
- Hell Let Loose
- STAR WARS: The Old Republic
- dayZ
- Monster Hunter: World
- UNDECEMBER
- terraria
- theHunter: Call of the Wild
- Halo Infinite
- Battlefield 5
- Call of Duty: Black Ops III
- Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands
- NBA 2K23
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
- Battlefield 2042
- Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice – GOTY Edition
- Microsoft Flight Simulator 40th Anniversary Edition
- New World
- Fallout 76
Steam also shared the most played games simultaneously, as well as the bestsellers. This list is divided into levels according to the number of players.
Games with more than 240 thousand players
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
- Dying Light 2 Stay Human
- ARK: Survival Evolved
- PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS
- Goose Goose Duck
- Destiny 2
- Lost Ark
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel
- Dota 2
- Apex Legends
- ELDEN RING
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Games with more than 130 thousand players
- V Rising
- Team Fortress 2
- rust
- NARAKA: BLADEPOINT
- Total War: WARHAMMER III
- Wallpaper Engine
- Cyberpunk 2077
- MONSTER HUNTER RISE
- New World
- Path of Exile
- Grand Theft Auto V
- MultiVersus
Games with more than 75,000 players
- Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege
- Valheim
- Dread Hunger
- Warframe
- Left 4 Dead 2
- War Thunder
- Dead by Daylight
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- FIFA 22
- Football Manager 2022
- Vampire Survivors
- The Forest
- EA SPORTS FIFA 23
- Football Manager 2023
- The Sims 4
- terraria
- Unturned
- Warhammer: Vermintide
- Sid Meier’s Civilization 6
- Need for Speed Heat
- Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
- LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
- raft
Games with more than 40 thousand players
- phasmophobia
- SUPER PEOPLE 2
- Euro Truck Simulator 2
- Deep Rock Galactic
- Risk of Rain 2
- RimWorld
- World of Tanks Blitz
- Project Zombie
- Garry’s Mod
- Victoria 3
- Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord
- Stardew Valley
- 7 Days to Die
- Farming Simulator 22
- God of War
- Stray
- Don’t Starve Together
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
- MIR4
- Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered
- The Cycle: Frontier
- Crusader Kings 3
- VRChat
- NBA 2K22
- Stumble Guys
- GUNDAM EVOLUTION
- Conan Exiles
- FINAL FANTASY 17 Online
- Cult of the Lamb
- Fall Guys
- No Man’s Sky
- Mirror 2: Project X
- Halo Infinite
- Battlefield 5
- Hearts of Iron 4
- Dark and Darker Playtest
- dayZ
- Stellaris
- UNDECEMBER
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