As every year, Valve has published overviews revealing the most played and best-selling titles on the popular Steam platform in 2023. As usual, there is no specific ranking; instead, the top 12 of the year are simply named in various categories.
Some time ago, Valve decided to forego specific rankings and divided the most successful games of the year into the tiers Platinum (places 1 to 12), Gold (places 13 to 24), Silver (places 25 to 50) and Bronze (places 51 to 100). At this point we will give you an overview of the top 12 in each category. These include the most purchased games on Steam, the most played games on Steam, the most purchased new games and the most played titles on Steam Deck.
Not surprisingly: the big blockbusters of the year like Baldur’s Gate III, Hogwarts Legacy or Starfield also appear regularly on the lists, as well as long-running favorites like PUBG: Battlegrounds or Apex Legends. By the way, the evaluation period is January 1st to December 15th, 2023; Late upstarts like The Finals are likely to miss out on better rankings at Valve.
Bestsell ing games on Steam in 2023
- Apex Legends
- Baldur’s Gate 3
- Call of Duty
- Counter-Strike 2
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Destiny 2
- Dota 2
- Hogwarts Legacy
- Lost Ark
- PUBG: Battlegrounds
- Sons Of The Forest
- Starfield
Bestselling New Games on Steam in 2023 (List with only newly published titles from 2023)
- Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon
- Baldur’s Gate 3
- Cities: Skylines 2
- EA Sports FC 24
- Hogwarts Legacy
- Payday 3
- Remnant 2
- Resident Evil 4
- Sons Of The Forest
- Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
- Starfield
- Street Fighter 6
Most played Steam games in 2023 (the peak number of simultaneous players was over 300,000 gamers in all cases)
- Apex Legends
- Baldur’s Gate 3
- Counter-Strike 2
- Destiny 2
- Dota 2
- Goose Goose Duck
- Hogwarts Legacy
- Lost Ark
- PUBG: Battlegrounds
- Sons Of The Forest
- Starfield
Most played games on Steam Deck in 2023
- Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon
- Baldur’s Gate 3
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Dave the Diver
- Elden Ring
- Grand Theft Auto 5
- Half-Life
- Hogwarts Legacy
- Resident Evil 4
- Starfield
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- Vampire Survivors