As every year, Steam unveils the ranking of the most popular and best-selling games on its platform. The opportunity to (re)discover some phenomena of the year.
It’s the end of the year and everyone is doing their retrospectives, even Steam, which is sharing with us the greatest hits of 2022 from its platform in multiple categories. The best-selling games, the ones with the highest number of concurrent players, the best VR games or even the best launches. we walk around
Steam’s greatest hits of 2022
We start this top with the best sales of the year section, which includes both game sales and microtransaction revenue. Unsurprisingly, here we find the biggest releases of 2022, such as Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, a real hit, Elden Ring, FromSoftware’s biggest hit to date, or Dying Light 2 and Monster Hunter Ascension
At the top of the leaderboard you will also find several extremely popular free-to-play games that have generated multi-million dollars such as: Apex Legends, Lost Ark or Yu-Gi-Oh! duel master.
In the top of the most played games of the platform we also find great achievements like Lost Ark which had managed to bring together more than 1.2 million players simultaneously on their servers, or even Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2. The ranking here is practically identical to that of the bestsellers, as these are closely linked. The witcher 3, Stray, Hades etc Nobody’s heaven Meanwhile, dominate the most played games on Steam Deck. Valve’s machine delights its players and optimizes more and more games. Finally, when it comes to VR, we don’t find that surprising Half-Life Alyx, beat saber, backbreaking work or After the fallle Left 4 Dead-like ultra popular.
Note that the rankings below are not in order as Steam prefers to organize games by category rather than comparing games individually.
Best Sellers of 2022 on Steam
Ranking of the games that generated the most gross revenue from January 1, 2022 to December 18, 2022.
- Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2
- Elder Ring
- Monster Hunter Ascension
- PUBG
- Counterstrike: GO
- dying light 2
- destiny 2
- Yu-Gi-Oh! duel master
- Lost Ark
- Apex Legends
- Hell Bladepoint
- DOTA 2
The most popular games of 2022
Ranking of games that managed to reach 240,000 or more concurrent players. Free weekends or other promotional events were not taken into account.
- Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2
- Elder Ring
- Goose goose duck
- PUBG
- Counterstrike: GO
- dying light 2
- destiny 2
- Yu-Gi-Oh! duel master
- Lost Ark
- Apex Legends
- ARK: Survival Evolved
- DOTA 2
The best early access games of 2022
Ranking of the games that generated the most gross revenue during or at the end of their Early Access in 2022.
- Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord
- powerwash
- police simulator
- temperature
- Terrible hunger
- Grounded
- Villain Legacy 2
- Vampire Survivors
- raft
- WW3: Redline
- Foxhole Inferno
- tear down
The best VR games of 2022 on Steam
Ranking of virtual reality games that generated the most gross revenue in 2022.
- After the fall
- Half-Life Alyx
- Super hot VR
- beat saber
- SkyrimVR
- Zenith: The Last City
- Blade & Sorcery
- bone work
- BoneLab
- Vtol VR
- Pavlov
- Into the radius
The best games on Steam Deck
Ranking of the most played games on Steam Deck in 2022.
- Stray
- Elder Ring
- The witcher 3
- Nobody’s heaven
- Hades
- cult of the Lamb
- multiverse
- Persona 5 Royal
- Vampire Survivor
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Marvel’s Spider-Man
The best Steam launches of 2022
Ranking of the games that generated the highest gross revenue in the two weeks after their launch.
- V rising
- Monster Hunter Ascension
- Total War Warhammer 3
- Lost Ark
- LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
- dying light 2
- Stray
- Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2
- Yu-Gi-Oh! duel master
- FIFA 23
- Elder Ring
- Warhammer 40K Darktide
The top 100 of each category can be found on the official site of steam.
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