Valve has released its annual “Best Of” list highlighting the top-performing games on Steam measured by gross revenue and player engagement.

The categories are top sellers, best-selling new releases, most-played games on PC, most-played games on Steam Deck, highest-grossing early access games, most-played using a controller, and best-selling VR titles. The top 12 games in each category earn Platinum status, while everything below them is grouped into a descending ranking of Gold, Silver, and Bronze. It’s a fun snapshot of the games Steam users dug into most this year and a reminder that games seemingly on the downtrend or long in the tooth (like, say, Destiny 2) clearly have a lot of players still logging in to play.  

You can view the complete list here, but we’ve listed the Platinum-ranked games alphabetically in each category (Valve does not rank these games).

Top Sellers (highest gross revenue earned in 2023)

  • Apex Legends
  • Baldur’s Gate 3
  • Call of Duty (MW III, Warzone, MW II)
  • Counter-Strike 2
  • Cyberpunk 2077
  • Destiny 2
  • Dota 2
  • Hogwarts Legacy
  • Lost Ark
  • PUBG: Battlegrounds
  • Sons of the Forest
  • Starfield

New Releases (most revenue earned during first two weeks of launch)

  • Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
  • Baldur’s Gate 3
  • Cities: Skylines II
  • EA Sports FC 24
  • Hogwarts Legacy
  • Payday 3
  • Remnant II
  • Resident Evil 4 (remake)
  • Sons of the Forest
  • Starfield
  • Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
  • Street Fighter 6

Most Played (number of peak concurrent player counts over 40,000)

  • 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 

Early Access (highest gross revenue earned before and after launching in 1.0 this year)

  • Against the Storm
  • Baldur’s Gate 3
  • Dave the Diver
  • Demonologist
  • Disney Dreamlight Valley
  • Everspace 2
  • Farlight 84
  • Marvel Snap
  • My Time at Sandrock
  • Ready or Not
  • Sun Haven
  • Wartales

Steam Deck (most played games on the device based on daily active player counts this year)

  • Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
  • Baldur’s Gate 3
  • Cyberpunk 2077
  • Dave the Diver
  • Elden Ring
  • Half-Life
  • Hogwarts Legacy
  • Grand Theft Auto V
  • Resident Evil 4 (remake)
  • Starfield
  • Vampire Survivors
  • The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Controller (games most played using a gamepad)

  • Apex Legends
  • Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
  • Call of Duty (MW III, Warzone, MW II)
  • EA Sports FC 24
  • Elden Ring
  • FIFA 23
  • Hogwarts Legacy
  • NBA 2K23
  • Resident Evil 4 (remake)
  • Rocket League
  • Starfield
  • Street Fighter 6

VR (highest revenue earned)

  • Beat Saber
  • Blade & Sorcery
  • Bonelab
  • Boneworks
  • The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR
  • Five Nights at Freddy’s: Help Wanted 2
  • Ghosts of Tabor
  • Gorilla Tag
  • Half-Life: Alyx
  • Into the Radius VR
  • Pavlov
  • VTOL VR

Source: www.gameinformer.com