Valve has as soon as once more given some perception into the highest-earning video games of the yr on Steam. The sixth annual Top Sellers listing splits the highest 100 video games into just a few classes, and the titles inside every are randomly ordered. The 12 video games within the Platinum class raked in probably the most money.

There are a number of free-to-play video games on the prime, since Steam has factored in microtransactions and paid expansions. The Platinum tier is dominated by previous favorites, together with Apex Legends, PUBG: Battlegrounds, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Dead by Daylight, Destiny 2, Rainbow Six Siege, Dota 2 and Grand Theft Auto V.

It’s the sixth straight yr that Dota 2, CS:GO and Grand Theft Auto V have made it into the highest tier. PUBG: Battlegrounds and Rainbow Six Siege every made the reduce for the fifth time as nicely. Destiny 2, in the meantime, has featured within the Platinum tier yearly because it hit Steam in 2019.

Battle royale title Naraka: Bladepoint and Battlefield 2042 are among the many 4 releases from this yr that made it into the highest 12. Valheim, a survival sandbox recreation made by simply 5 folks, can also be among the many greatest cash makers, as is New World, exhibiting that after years of making an attempt and failing, Amazon has lastly made successful recreation.

The newcomers that landed within the second group of 12 video games, Gold, are FIFA 22, Back 4 Blood, Forza Horizon 5 and It Takes Two, which received recreation of the yr honors at The Game Awards. The older titles in that part are Final Fantasy XIV Online (which Square Enix has quickly stopped promoting because of overloaded servers), Red Dead Redemption 2, Rust, Sea of Thieves, Warframe, The Elder Scrolls Online, War Thunder and Forza Horizon 4.

The Silver part, in the meantime, consists of 2021 releases akin to Halo Infinite, Outriders, Resident Evil Village and Mass Effect Legendary Edition. Cyberpunk 2077, which was launched in December final yr, is in that class, as are The Sims 4, Monster Hunter: World and the bot-plagued Team Fortress 2.

Some key takeaways embrace the truth that EA, which introduced its video games again to Steam in 2019, had 4 titles among the many prime 24 earners, together with three new releases: Apex Legends, Battlefield 2042, FIFA 22 and It Takes Two. Microsoft additionally had a number of video games within the prime few tiers, regardless of all of them being out there on PC Game Pass. Forza Horizon 5, its predecessor and Sea of Thieves are all within the Gold class. Halo Infinite made it into Silver despite the fact that the multiplayer is free-to-play and the paid marketing campaign had solely been out for per week earlier than Steam stopped monitoring earnings for the listing.

Many of those video games — together with New World, Battlefield 2042, Mass Effect: Legendary Edition and Sea of Thieves — have been discounted for the Steam Winter Sale. Cyberpunk 2077, Valheim and Back 4 Blood are additionally included in the sale, which runs till January fifth.