Steam: Valve publishes the balance sheet of the biggest success of the year 2021

As every end of the year, Valve has developed different rankings to highlight the games that have the best market on Steam throughout the year 2021. From January 1st to December 15, more exactly.

True to his habit, Valve unveiled a top 100 by remaining quite vague for not that one can compose an exact ranking. The games are thus grouped by categories but in the disorder, the 40 biggest success being gathered in the Platinum, Gold and Silver categories. The other 60 games of the list are then scattered in the Bronze category. In any case, note that the success of the Games has been measured according to the turnover and not the number of copies sold, which is more logical if only compared to the free-to-play and the Service games.

Honor to the winners with Platinum Games, category in which we find many regulars, namely Data 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Grand Theft Auto V, PUBG, Rainbow Six Siege and Destiny 2. Dead by Daylight Not a new little either, but his exceptional performance allows him to appear for the first time in the Platinum circle after hanging the gold two years in a row. The other five games came out on Steam in 2021 and naturally count New World and Latham, two PC exclusives whose spectacular numbers have been highlighted at the time of their release. The MMO of Amazon Games remains, among other things, who has made the biggest peak of players this year on Steam (913 634). Latham, he approached the 8 million copies sold last August. Call of Duty: Vanguard is only available on Battle.net, Battlefield 2042 will also have his ranger of end of the year, while being massacred by the players' assessments. The opposite of Apex Legends and Nanak: Bluepoint, the little surprise of the Royal Battle Venue of China.

Platinum

The Gold category highlights game endurance like Rust, Warframe, Final Fantasy XIV, The Elder Scrolls Online and the good cohabitation of Fora Horizon 4 and Fora Horizon 5, released respectively in March and November on the valve platform. With 5 million copies sold on Steam since June 2020, Sea of ​​Thieves always sails in happiness, too. In the newspaper, IT Takes Two and Back 4 Blood highlight the strength of cooperation in different kinds.

GOLD

The Silver category counts five novelties with Resident Evil Village, Age of Empires IV, Outriders, Mass Effect Legendary Edition and Halo Infinite who might have been able to claim better if he was out earlier in the year. Monster Hunter World and Ark: Survival Evolved maintain the love of players for big animals, while Civilization VI, Homophobia and Stellar is recall that the PC also has on its exclusives.

Silver

Finally, the rest of the top 100 accounts a number of titles output in 2021 as Farming Simulator 22, biomutant, Nigh 2, Tales of Arise, Phantasm Star Online 2: New Genesis, Humankind, Guilty Gear: Strive, Gone Days and Deferral Replica. In addition, Valve also offers ranking according to the largest number of people in play simultaneously or a ranking of the biggest successes of virtual reality. Failure to be able to rely on the productions Oculus Studios, the so-called Into the Radius is the only novelty that has been placed in the Platinum category.

the triumph of Microsoft as power of the PC game

We have already had the opportunity to emphasize it, but this year 2021 marks a turning point for Xbox Game Studios, which now includes among the big names of the PC game. A more easily noticeable observation when looking at the ranking of the best novelties outputs in 2021 also provided by Valve. Hallo Infinite, Age of Empires IV, Fora Horizon 5 (and Death loop to a lesser extent) Add to the success already encountered by Halo: The Master Chief Collection, State of Decay 2, ORI and The Will of the Wisps, Grounded, Sea of ​​Thieves, Microsoft Flight Simulator and Fora Horizon 4. If we add to this Big Licenses of Bethesda (The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Doom), we take better measure of the place now occupied by Microsoft in the landscape of the game PC video.

On the PlayStation side, Days Gone has passed its debut on PC by ranking among the 25 bigger novelties of the year, without generating as much attention as Horizon Zero Dawn in 2020 (like console, at the same time). While the manufacturer is still unable to supply as much PlayStation so that it would not be necessary, something tells us that God of War and Uncharted may not be the only PlayStation games that we'll see out on PC in 2022.