New Real-Time and Weekly Steam Charts
Today we’ve launched a new section of Steam dedicated to ranking the most popular games on Steam. This new section includes real-time charts for top selling and most played games, as well as weekly top sellers and monthly top new releases.
Check out the new charts here: https://store.steampowered.com/charts/
This new section replaces the old ‘stats’ page on Steam and provides a better overview for what is hot on Steam right now. The new top-selling lists rank games based on total revenue, including all sources such as DLC and in-game transactions so we can all get a more complete picture of which games players are excited about getting into and continuing to play. This new method of calculating revenue is also being deployed across various top lists throughout the Steam store, including the Top Sellers tab on Steam’s homepage, genre and tag pages.
Here is a closer look at what’s new:
The new Steam Charts overview page provides a quick summary of which games are selling well, being played the most, and how many users are online. Plus, links to quickly jump to the most recent weekly and monthly charts.
And you can continue to find links here to the Steam Hardware Survey, Download Stats, and Customer Support Stats.
We’ve had real-time Top Sellers sections on various pages across Steam for well over a decade, even broken out into top lists for individual tags, genres, and themes. You can still find those by visiting any tag or genre page, or simply going to the search page on Steam and sorting by top sellers. Today’s update builds on that history with a few notable improvements in the Steam Charts view:
Number of weeks on chart – We’ve added indication of how many weeks a game has been on the top sellers chart.
Weekly change in rank – We’ve added indication of how many positions a game has changed in rank, if any, compared with the previous week.
Region switcher – For a set of most popular countries on Steam, we generate country-specific top sellers lists as a default so the lists can pick up on regional differences in customer interests. By default, we’ll show you charts for your own country if we have them, but you can always switch to the global view or to another country’s view if you are curious.
Total revenue – This list charts how well games are selling right now, including all editions (standard, deluxe, etc) of the game as well as DLC and in-game transactions. If an individual DLC is selling well enough on it’s own to make the chart, we’ll show the DLC entry as well so you can see when exciting new game expansions are making a splash.
Check out the real-time top sellers chart: https://store.steampowered.com/charts/topselling/global
The Most Played list charts the top 100 games based on the number of players in the game right now, along with an indication of the recent peak in player count for each of those top games. You can also switch to a view sorted by daily players which ranks the games based on the total number of unique players over the past 24 hours.
Check out the real-time most played chart: https://store.steampowered.com/charts/mostplayed
The new weekly charts show the top 100 best-selling games based on revenue earned starting and ending each week on Monday at 10am Pacific. These lists show how many weeks in a row each game has been on the weekly charts and any change in rank from the previous week.
You can easily view previous weeks’ charts to see popular games you may have missed. In fact, if you keep going through previous weeks, you can step all the way back to 2005 when there was a grand total of three games available for sale on Steam. Or the week of March 27 when PUBG launched straight to the top of the charts.
What other historical moments in PC gaming can you find immortalized in these weekly charts?
For over a year now, we’ve been compiling a list for each months’ top new releases. These monthly charts continue within a new home alongside our other charts, making it easier to look back at previous months’ lists.
Check July’s Top New Releases: https://store.steampowered.com/charts/topnewreleases/top_july_2022
Q. Why include Free to Play games on these charts?
A. Over time we’ve seen games utilize a wide variety of approaches to pricing. Traditionally our top sellers charts have only included revenue from premium game purchases, but that was obscuring the hugely popular free or inexpensive games in which players purchase season passes, huge expansions, or other forms of new content. This format also lets us combine multiple editions of the same game so as to avoid duplication on the charts.
Q. What if a game is not available on Steam anymore?
A. If a game has been retired and is no longer available for purchase, it will still be listed on historical weekly and monthly charts for when it was top selling game. The charts will also display items not available in your country, or filtered out by your preferences, but in a condensed form.,Today we’ve launched a new section of Steam dedicated to ranking the most popular games on Steam. This new section includes real-time charts for top selling and most played games, as well as weekly top sellers and monthly top new releases.Check out the new charts here: https://store.steampowered.com/charts/This new section replaces the old ‘stats’ page on Steam and provides a better overview for what is hot on Steam right now. The new top-selling lists rank games based on total revenue, including all sources such as DLC and in-game transactions so we can all get a more complete picture of which games players are excited about getting into and continuing to play. This new method of calculating revenue is also being deployed across various top lists throughout the Steam store, including the Top Sellers tab on Steam’s homepage, genre and tag pages.Here is a closer look at what’s new:Charts Overview Page
The new Steam Charts overview page provides a quick summary of which games are selling well, being played the most, and how many users are online. Plus, links to quickly jump to the most recent weekly and monthly charts.And you can continue to find links here to the Steam Hardware Survey, Download Stats, and Customer Support Stats.Real-time Top Sellers
We’ve had real-time Top Sellers sections on various pages across Steam for well over a decade, even broken out into top lists for individual tags, genres, and themes. You can still find those by visiting any tag or genre page, or simply going to the search page on Steam and sorting by top sellers. Today’s update builds on that history with a few notable improvements in the Steam Charts view:
Number of weeks on chart – We’ve added indication of how many weeks a game has been on the top sellers chart.
Weekly change in rank – We’ve added indication of how many positions a game has changed in rank, if any, compared with the previous week.
Region switcher – For a set of most popular countries on Steam, we generate country-specific top sellers lists as a default so the lists can pick up on regional differences in customer interests. By default, we’ll show you charts for your own country if we have them, but you can always switch to the global view or to another country’s view if you are curious.
Total revenue – This list charts how well games are selling right now, including all editions (standard, deluxe, etc) of the game as well as DLC and in-game transactions. If an individual DLC is selling well enough on it’s own to make the chart, we’ll show the DLC entry as well so you can see when exciting new game expansions are making a splash.
Check out the real-time top sellers chart: https://store.steampowered.com/charts/topselling/globalReal-time Most Played
The Most Played list charts the top 100 games based on the number of players in the game right now, along with an indication of the recent peak in player count for each of those top games. You can also switch to a view sorted by daily players which ranks the games based on the total number of unique players over the past 24 hours.Check out the real-time most played chart: https://store.steampowered.com/charts/mostplayedWeekly Top Sellers Charts
The new weekly charts show the top 100 best-selling games based on revenue earned starting and ending each week on Monday at 10am Pacific. These lists show how many weeks in a row each game has been on the weekly charts and any change in rank from the previous week.You can easily view previous weeks’ charts to see popular games you may have missed. In fact, if you keep going through previous weeks, you can step all the way back to 2005 when there was a grand total of three games available for sale on Steam. Or the week of March 27 when PUBG launched straight to the top of the charts.What other historical moments in PC gaming can you find immortalized in these weekly charts?Monthly Top New ReleasesFor over a year now, we’ve been compiling a list for each months’ top new releases. These monthly charts continue within a new home alongside our other charts, making it easier to look back at previous months’ lists.Check July’s Top New Releases: https://store.steampowered.com/charts/topnewreleases/top_july_2022Frequently Asked Questions
Q. Why include Free to Play games on these charts?A. Over time we’ve seen games utilize a wide variety of approaches to pricing. Traditionally our top sellers charts have only included revenue from premium game purchases, but that was obscuring the hugely popular free or inexpensive games in which players purchase season passes, huge expansions, or other forms of new content. This format also lets us combine multiple editions of the same game so as to avoid duplication on the charts.Q. What if a game is not available on Steam anymore?A. If a game has been retired and is no longer available for purchase, it will still be listed on historical weekly and monthly charts for when it was top selling game. The charts will also display items not available in your country, or filtered out by your preferences, but in a condensed form.Read More