This won't be just a copy paste of the blog, no, my objective is to replicate what I do week after week in the Steam Weekly Top Sellers thread but in a much bigger scope, why? Because it's a very interesting kind of data and because 2020, even tho it has been a rough year, it has been a quite interesting one too when it comes to Steam gaming, to make it simple, this is a year in which Persona 4 Golden, Half-Life: Alyx, HZD, Death Stranding, Red Dead Redemption 2, Cyberpunk 2077 and some more games are in the same list, isn't it crazy?
Ok, now that this is settled I think it's time we get this thing started.
First things First, as it's tradition the Top 100 games are represented within 4 categories based on Gross Revenue which are Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze, to understand this you must keep in mind that even if it's Bronze the fact that it's in the top 100 means it has been one of the biggest releases of the year.
Platinum category:
Platinum category is what you could expect, a lot of juggernauts, a lot of GAAS and most interestingly, Among Us and Fall Guys are included, as you already know, this two games have been top sellers since Summer until now and that's just crazy, things like C2077, RDR2 or Monster Hunter were given but Doom Eternal? woah with the demon slayer, not a bad platinum category.
A few observations:
-Lack of Rocket League due to delisting
-Lack of multiple Ubi games (this already happened in 2019) due to abanding partially the platform (as they keep releasing some stuff)
-PUBG still strong since release
You can compare the platinum category with the ones from previos years (2016-today):
Gold category:
Unlike the Platinum category, gold is less GAAS oriented and more core-community, things like CK3, Civ6, BG3's EA, Bannerlord or Halo MCC found a good success thanks to a very passionated community, some because of the genre, some because of returning icons, now the most impressive one would be (aside of Phasmophobia which is the third of 2020's trinity) Sea of Thieves, out of nowhere it found a very interesting community and not just that but also very active, game is thriving since Steam release and numbers are big, who said pirates weren't cool?
What about Borderlands 3? well, it's borderlands, even after the EGS exclusivity it found a good number of players within Steam, not surprising but still interesting.
Older Gold categories:
Silver category:
Silver category is quite similar to Gold but filled mostly with older games from previous years but of course there are exceptions like Flight Simulator or the CHAMP Hades, which is one of the most awared games of the year and pretty much like Borderlands, after an EGS timed exclusivity period it found a great community on Steam when 1.0 released, did you know that the game has been on the weekly top 10 for 15 weeks in a row? that's just impressive, don't you think?
Older Silver categories:
Bronze category:
And here we have what I consider the best category, not because they are the bigger grossing games of 2020 but because it's the most varied category each year, I mean, in this same spot we have Death Stranding, 2 Star Wars games, Temtem (an spanish creature capture game), A FRICKING HALF-LIFE GAME, A PERSONA GAME or Horizon Zero Dawn, isn't it crazy? 2020 has been kind of interesting and 2021 sure seems like it will keep growing in terms of variety, damn good.
Same deal, older Bronze categories.
As you can see, a lot changes in just a year, some go up, some go down and some stay the same but always with a great number of varied products and this retrospective of 5 years of games helps a lot to bring up a good vision of how the platform is evolving.
2020 has been the year in which EA came back, Bethesda and MS went all-in on Steam and people delivered, the year in which we got a Persona game, a previous PS4 exclusive from a 1P team, a previous Nintendo exclusive from Platinum games (more to follow after this post ^^) a new HL game and more, so, what will 2021 bring us? we can't possibly know let's hope for something as amazing as 2020 in terms of gaming, shall we?
I hope you liked the thread, if you want to participate, please do
More things to follow after this post, you will see.
Ok, now that this is settled I think it's time we get this thing started.
First things First, as it's tradition the Top 100 games are represented within 4 categories based on Gross Revenue which are Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze, to understand this you must keep in mind that even if it's Bronze the fact that it's in the top 100 means it has been one of the biggest releases of the year.
Official lists are randomly sorted (each refresh will change the position, however, I will sort it by name.
Platinum category:
- Among Us
- Counter Strike: Global Offensive
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Destiny 2
- Doom Eternal
- Dota 2
- Fall Guys
- Grand Theft Auto V
- Monster Hunter World
- PUBG
- Rainbow6 Siege
- Red Dead Redemption 2
Platinum category is what you could expect, a lot of juggernauts, a lot of GAAS and most interestingly, Among Us and Fall Guys are included, as you already know, this two games have been top sellers since Summer until now and that's just crazy, things like C2077, RDR2 or Monster Hunter were given but Doom Eternal? woah with the demon slayer, not a bad platinum category.
A few observations:
-Lack of Rocket League due to delisting
-Lack of multiple Ubi games (this already happened in 2019) due to abanding partially the platform (as they keep releasing some stuff)
-PUBG still strong since release
You can compare the platinum category with the ones from previos years (2016-today):
2016
2017
2018
2019
2017
2018
2019
Gold category:
- Ark
- Baldur's Gate 3 (Early Access)
- Borderlands 3
- Civilization 6
- Crusader Kings 3
- Dead by Daylight
- Halo: The Master Chief Collection
- Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord
- Phasmophobia
- Sea of Thieves
- The Elder Scrolls: Online
- Warframe
Unlike the Platinum category, gold is less GAAS oriented and more core-community, things like CK3, Civ6, BG3's EA, Bannerlord or Halo MCC found a good success thanks to a very passionated community, some because of the genre, some because of returning icons, now the most impressive one would be (aside of Phasmophobia which is the third of 2020's trinity) Sea of Thieves, out of nowhere it found a very interesting community and not just that but also very active, game is thriving since Steam release and numbers are big, who said pirates weren't cool?
What about Borderlands 3? well, it's borderlands, even after the EGS exclusivity it found a good number of players within Steam, not surprising but still interesting.
Older Gold categories:
2016
2017
2018
2019
2017
2018
2019
Silver category:
- Assassins Creed: Odyssey
- Black Desert online: Remastered
- Cities Skylines
- Euro Truck Simulator 2
- Final Fantasy XIV online
- Flight Simulator 2020
- Hades
- Path of Exile Heist
- Planet Zoo
- Raft
- Rust
- Stellaris
- Team Fortress 2
- The Witcher 3
- Total War Warhammer 2
- War Thunder
Silver category is quite similar to Gold but filled mostly with older games from previous years but of course there are exceptions like Flight Simulator or the CHAMP Hades, which is one of the most awared games of the year and pretty much like Borderlands, after an EGS timed exclusivity period it found a great community on Steam when 1.0 released, did you know that the game has been on the weekly top 10 for 15 weeks in a row? that's just impressive, don't you think?
Older Silver categories:
2016
2017
2018
2019
2017
2018
2019
Bronze category:
- Age of Empires 2 Remastered
- American Truck Simulator
- Apex Legends
- Arma 3
- Call of Duty Black Ops 3
- Command and Conquer remastered collection
- Conan Exiles
- Dark Souls 3
- DayZ
- Death Stranding
- Deep Rock Galactic
- Divinity 2 Original Sin
- Don't Starve Together
- Dragon Ball Z Kakarot
- Dying Light
- Fallout 4
- Fallout 76
- Farcry 5
- Farming Simulator 19
- Fifa 21
- Football Manager 21
- Grounded
- GTFO
- Half Life Alyx
- Hearts of Iron 4
- Horizon Zero Dawn
- Human Fall Flat
- Hunt Showdown
- Lords Mobile
- Marvel's Avengers
- Metro Exodus
- NBA 2K20
- NBA 2K21
- Ori and the Will of the Wisps
- Persona 4 Golden
- Pummel Party
- Remnant: From the Ashes
- Resident Evil 3 Remake
- Rimworld
- Risk of Rain 2
- Satisfactory
- Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
- Smite
- Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order
- Star Wars: Sqadrons
- Stardew Valley
- Tabletop Simulator
- Temtem
- Terraria
- TES Skyrim Definitive Edition
- The Forest
- The Hunter: Call of the Wild
- The Sims 4
- Total War Three Kingdoms
- Wallpaper Engine
- Wolcen Bloodtrail
- World of Warships
- Yu-gi-oh Dual links
And here we have what I consider the best category, not because they are the bigger grossing games of 2020 but because it's the most varied category each year, I mean, in this same spot we have Death Stranding, 2 Star Wars games, Temtem (an spanish creature capture game), A FRICKING HALF-LIFE GAME, A PERSONA GAME or Horizon Zero Dawn, isn't it crazy? 2020 has been kind of interesting and 2021 sure seems like it will keep growing in terms of variety, damn good.
Same deal, older Bronze categories.
2016
2017
2018
2019
2017
2018
2019
As you can see, a lot changes in just a year, some go up, some go down and some stay the same but always with a great number of varied products and this retrospective of 5 years of games helps a lot to bring up a good vision of how the platform is evolving.
2020 has been the year in which EA came back, Bethesda and MS went all-in on Steam and people delivered, the year in which we got a Persona game, a previous PS4 exclusive from a 1P team, a previous Nintendo exclusive from Platinum games (more to follow after this post ^^) a new HL game and more, so, what will 2021 bring us? we can't possibly know let's hope for something as amazing as 2020 in terms of gaming, shall we?
I hope you liked the thread, if you want to participate, please do
More things to follow after this post, you will see.
