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December 28, 2020 2 min read
I always enjoy winding down the year with a look at Steam's list of best-selling games.
Besides high-profile new releases like Cyberpunk 2077 and surprise indie hits like Phasmophobia, 2020 was another year of gaming dominated by old flames that we just can't seem to break away from.
These were the "top 100 games as measured by gross revenue" on Steam in 2020:
Note: These games are grouped up by Steam, but I've listed the individual games in each group alphabetically.
Platinum
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Bronze
I'm also fascinated by Steam's most-played section – the games with the highest peak concurrent players in 2020. Cyberpunk and Among Us are represented on the over-200,000-players-at-once list as you might expect, but so is Life is Strange 2. I'm genuinely surprised to see that name show up.
Another interesting tidbit via Daniel Ahmad: a ton of us set aside time during the holidays for some (okay more than "some") PC gaming. This year, Steam had 23 million peak concurrent users on Christmas day – a notable step up from 2019 (15.8 million users), 2018 (15.3M), and 2017 (16.2M).
If you're curious, Steam also has a spotlight on new releases, Early Access grads, the best of VR, and controller games – "the year's top controller games as measured by daily active controller players."
You do you, Steam. You do you.
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