News Top Steam Releases of April 2019 (Steam Blog)

lashman

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well that's new ... and pretty cool :)


We are continually fascinated by the number of amazing games coming out on Steam each month and how much variety there is in what becomes popular. In any given month, the most popular new releases represent a wide variety of styles, genres, and themes. They may be worldwide hits or they may have a stronger audience only in particular regions.

So, we're trying something new with this post by taking a look at the 20 top-selling games released in the month of April.

To generate this list, we started by enumerating all the games released between April 1 and April 30. We then looked at revenue earned by each of those games in the first two weeks following that game's release. From that list, we took the top 20 games by revenue to make our final list. Finally, we sorted the 20 games by release date.


Totally Accurate Battle Simulator, a wacky physics-based tactics game released in Early Access on April 1st, 2019. Appropriate release date for a game that doesn't take itself too seriously, right?


SUPER DRAGON BALL HEROES WORLD MISSION, a Tactical-Card game set in the Dragon Ball Heroes universe. Released April 4th, 2019.


ISLANDERS, a super chill minimalist strategy game released April 4th, 2019 and already adding new content to the game.


MarZ: Tactical Base Defense, a top-down strategy and tactical defense game released April 4th, 2019.


Supraland, a first-person adventure puzzle game released April 5th, 2019.


Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy / 逆転裁判123 成歩堂セレクション, a collection of the first three games in the popular courtroom adventure series, released April 9th, 2019.


Vacation Simulator, a quirky VR simulation game from the makers of Job Simulator, released April 9th, 2019.


Zanki Zero: Last Beginning, a post-apocalyptic simulation game with a deep narrative and elements of RPG and dungeon crawling, released April 10th, 2019.


Pathway, a strategy RPG set in the 1930s great desert. Released April 11th, 2019.


Weedcraft Inc, a game about the business of producing, breeding and selling weed in America. Released April 11th, 2019.


Staxel, a sandbox farming game for singleplayer or with friends. Exited Early Access on April 11th, 2019.


One Finger Death Punch 2, a lighting-fast stickman brawler with cinematic kung-fu moves. Released April 15th, 2019.


Forager, a 2D open world crafting and resource management game. Released April 18th, 2019.


Pagan Online, a fast-paced hack-and-slash action RPG released in Early Access on April 18th, 2019.


Katana ZERO, a stylish neo-noir, action-platformer featuring breakneck action and instant-death combat released April 18th, 2019.


Driftland: The Magic Revival, a real-time strategy city builder. Released April 18th, 2019.


Paper Dolls Original , a first-person horror adventure game steeped in Eastern culture, released April 19th, 2019.


Mortal Kombat 11, you've probably heard of this series before. It's popular and back for it's 11 edition with more detailed fighting action. Released April 23rd, 2019.


Imperator: Rome, deep grand strategy game set in Roman times. Released April 25th, 2019.


MORDHAU, a multiplayer medieval slasher with horses. This game hovers around the #11 position for most simultaneous players on Steam at any given time. Released April 29th, 2019.

And that's the list of the top 20 Steam games released in April.

As always, let us know if you have any feedback or suggestions.

-The Steam Team
 

MJunioR

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So happy to see Mordhau, Forager and Ace Attorney there. I really hope that Valve continues with those blog posts every month.
 
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Digoman

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Where are the hentai puzzle games? I thought that was what everyone was seeing all the time on the store? :p

Several very good games on that list, but I once again will shill for Supraland. That game deserves every bit of success it appears to be having.
 

Kvik

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I only own Ace Attorney, Pathway and Zanki Zero out of that list. I'll be adding Islanders, Paper Dolls, Forager and Katana Zero into my wishlist now since you lot seems to love it so much. :wd_p:
 
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Arsene

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Wow Zanki Zero? Congrats to Spike Chunsoft.

Love a lot of their games and I hope AI: The Somnium Files can grab a spot on the September list!

Also glad to see Supraland, Katana Zero, Forager and One Finger Death Punch 2 all doing well. Really enjoyed all 4.
 

Ruvon

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Only played ISLANDERS on this list (did a review in french btw ISLANDERS)

Waiting for Pathway to be fully patched and rebalanced.

Imperator Rome jumped off my wishlist because of what I heard about balance and gameplay mechanisms.

But I'll definitely buy Katana Zero (that OST...) and I'll have a puff of Weedcraft Inc. soon.
 
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Arulan

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It's really fascinating to see so many great games released every month. Thanks for opening the floodgates Valve.
 
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Ge0force

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The amount of toxic comments in this blog is ridiculous o_O
  • any AAA? no because epic took all of the. Steam is full of indie low effort games that is not worth the time to play them.
  • As long as Valve/Steam is going to continue censoring the negative reviews of paying customers, I'm not buying any game on Steam
  • Pathetic... Epic is getting better games.
  • This is SPAM. Why do I need this information?
  • all these games suck
  • Trying to distract the general userbase on your intentions to censor reviews?
  • "Hey guys! We know a lot of your most anticipated games are going Epic Store exclusive, but here's a list of♥♥♥♥♥♥to soften the blow! Please spend money here."
  • all these games are on my ignore list
What a bunch of whiners :rolleyes:
 

Xiaomi

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The amount of toxic comments in this blog is ridiculous
And very confusing as they seem to be wanting AAA games that already have multi-million-dollar marketing pushes behind them for... Reasons? Just to cheerlead their favorite publishers? All this developer talk and when Steam shows they are being very good for developers it's like "Not those! We want to see Gearbox and THQN!"
 

Phoenix RISING

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No Fell Seal?

PPL keep saying they want a FFT sequel but don't vote with their wallets.
The amount of toxic comments in this blog is ridiculous o_O
  • any AAA? no because epic took all of the. Steam is full of indie low effort games that is not worth the time to play them.
  • As long as Valve/Steam is going to continue censoring the negative reviews of paying customers, I'm not buying any game on Steam
  • Pathetic... Epic is getting better games.
  • This is SPAM. Why do I need this information?
  • all these games suck
  • Trying to distract the general userbase on your intentions to censor reviews?
  • "Hey guys! We know a lot of your most anticipated games are going Epic Store exclusive, but here's a list of♥♥♥♥♥♥to soften the blow! Please spend money here."
  • all these games are on my ignore list
What a bunch of whiners :rolleyes:
"Gamer Culture"
 

Ge0force

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Yeah but seriously: they are complaining that good games are being berried under loads of shovelware on Steam. But when Valve lists the most popular games, they are whining that these are shitty games or not AAA games. I mean, it's not as if AAA games don't get visibility on Steam. And Epic is only moneyhatting games with the most popular IP's and/or publishers. I know it's "the internet", but really, I'm still shocked about the amount of stupidity every time I'm confronted with these people.

Those guys whining about Valve censoring "user reviews" are hilarious as well. :rolleyes:
"Gamer Culture"
Hey I'm a gamer as well :cautious:
 
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Nyarlathotep

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I didn't realise TABS hadn't actually appeared on Steam greenlight until a few weeks ago, because its been public alphad for almost a year now
 
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Ruvon

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we all are ... there's literally no one below 80 here on MC
Too bad, I was trying to finally make friends below 60, guess MC is not the right place :cry:
We should do an irl Metacouncil meeting to play cards and boules some day :coffee:
Boules can be a little too physical I'm afraid, maybe we should stick to Scrabble and Dominoes ?