Valve have put collectively their “Finest Of 2023” lists on Steam. That is totally different from the Steam Awards, voting for which is ongoing, and as a substitute is constructed from Steam information like income, peak concurrent gamers, and so forth. It is fascinating yearly as older video games or indie obscurities do higher than you count on.
For any information primarily based on income, the video games are separated into buckets known as platinum, gold, silver and bronze. Place inside these buckets is then randomised. There’s due to this fact no approach to know whether or not Baldur’s Gate 3 or Cyberpunk 2077 made extra money in 2023, however they’re each within the Platinum bucket, which places them among the many high twelve grossing video games on Steam.
Deep sea sushi scavenger Dave The Diver seems within the bronze tier, alongside Lies Of P and Atomic Coronary heart, forever-games RimWorld, Terraria and Stardew Valley, and 2019’s Sekiro. The Finals does not seem wherever within the high 100, till you filter for simply video games launched in 2023, at which level it is within the gold tier. Goose Goose Duck was one in every of solely 11 video games to register over 300,000 concurrent gamers
There are additionally filters to view simply early entry, VR or Steam Deck video games. Every class has its personal set of caveats for what information is used, which you’ll be able to view on the backside of every web page. Most likely, if somebody was so inclined, it might be potential to cross-reference the listings with publicly obtainable monetary info to ballpark how a lot cash a “platinum” sport makes. However I am not so inclined.
You’ll find the entire thing at the Steam site.