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[Eddie-Griffin]

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/BestOf2022?tab=4

There's a lot of stuff here so here are some images showing off the very top for each category in the link.

Top Sellers on Steam for 2022 (Top Grossing Revenue)

Most Played games on Steam (Over 240k concurrent users) in 2022 Top 10.

1. Apex Legends
2. Dying Light 2
3. Counter-Strike GO
4. PUBG
5.Ark Survival Evolved
6. Lost Ark
7. Goose Goose Duck
8. Destiny 2
9. Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel
10. MWII

Top Selling NEW RELEASES on Steam for 2022 (Top Grossing Revenue) top 10.

1. V Rising
2. Dying Light 2
3. Fifa 23
4. Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel
5. Elden Ring
6. Lego StarWars Skywalker Saga
7. Monster Hunter Rise
8. Stray
9. Warhammer Darktide
10. Lost Ark

Top Selling EARLY ACCESS GAMES on Steam for 2022 (Top Grossing Revenue) top 10.

1. Vampire Survivors
2. Foxhole Inferno
3. Tem Tem
4. Police Simulator
5. Mount and Blade 2
6. Rouge Legacy 2
7. Powerwash Simulator
8. Dread Hunger
9. Grounded
10. Tear Down

Top Selling BEST OF VR on Steam for 2022 (Top Grossing Revenue) top 10.

1. Bonelab
2. Blade and Sorcery
3. Zenith
4. Superhot VR
5. Skyrim
6.Pavlov VR
7. Half-Life Alyx
8. Vtol VR
9. Bone works
10. Beat Saber

Most played games on STEAM DECK (by daily active users) for 2022 top 10.

1. The Witcher 3
2. Persona 5 Royal
3. Cyberpunk 2077
4. No Mans Sky
5. Vampire Saviors
6. Stray
7. Spiderman Remastered
8. Multiversus
9. Cult of Lamb
10. Hades

MWII is generally more of a console thing than PC, but I'm surprised how much spending is going on with the game on steam, it's number 1in Gross, but number 10 in most played, and nowhere in the top 10 for best grossing new releases list of 2022.

Persona much more popular with Steam Deck payers than I thought. Maybe it's not just people interested in PC gaming but some handheld console fans may be buying a Steam Deck as well which may explain Persona 5 Royals high charting., of course that's just a guess.

Of course these are just the platinum tier games at the top, there are also gold, silver and platinum tier charts with even more games. Several of these games got some impressive results, several new releases just jumped to the top of the charts despite being released later in the year too. I'm also curious about those Skyrim VR numbers.

 

[Lumpyoatmeal]

There's a Destiny 2?

I still gotta try out Apex.

 

[reksveks]

I don't think steam's lists are ordered but could be wrong.

Pretty sure I am not now looking at the most played charts.

Apex Legends · Apex Legends™ · AppID: 1172470

Apex Legends is the award-winning, free-to-play Hero shooter from Respawn Entertainment. Master an ever-growing roster of legendary characters with powerful abilities and experience strategic squad play and innovative gameplay in the next evolution of Hero Shooter and Battle Royale. Apex Legends...

steamdb.info

https://steamdb.info/app/730/graphs/

 

[Graciaus]

I am completely out of touch with the rest of Steam and it is my main platform. Lucky if I even had one game align with each category.

 

[DenchDeckard]

Apex Legends stays winning!

Love that game, amazing to see it at number 1.

 

[Kadve]

That many people still play Yu-Gi-Oh? That's a surprise.

Also V Rising still seems to be in early access. Why is it listed as a new release?

 

[64bitmodels]

That many people still play Yu-Gi-Oh? That's a surprise.

think they play it less because it's Yu-Gi-Oh and play it more because it's free

 

[LazyParrot]

How can Elden Ring not be in the list of most played games if the lower bound is at 244k? Didn't it have close to a million concurrent users at one point?

 

[Deleted member 1159]

Persona 4 Golden and Persona 5 Royal made up a combined 80% of my Steam time this year and 90% of that was on Deck. Complete time sinks that Deck is perfect for

 

[begotten]

Hell yeah, Yu-Gi-Oh doing work.

 

[reksveks]

How can Elden Ring not be in the list of most played games if the lower bound is at 244k? Didn't it have close to a million concurrent users at one point?

1) i really don't think the list ain't ordered
2) its about cumulative time, first image is ER and second is Apex so ER started bigger but the total number of users got smaller and assume the session lengths were shorter.

 

[Skifi28]

Good for monster hunter and dying light. Everything else, either expected or meh (the usual f2p suspects.)

 

[LazyParrot]

1) i really don't think the list ain't ordered
2) its about cumulative time, first image is ER and second is Apex so ER started bigger but the total number of users got smaller and assume the session lengths were shorter.

But Dying Light is in second place, and that game released around the same time as ER and always had significantly fewer players.

 

[Heisenberg007]

Apex Legends stays winning!

Love that game, amazing to see it at number 1.

I hope they release permanent TDM and Domination type modes. I just can't stand Battle Royales.

 

[reksveks]

But Dying Light is in second place, and that game released around the same time as ER and always had significantly fewer players.

goes to point 1, I don't think the list is ordered, it hasn't been before.

 

[Mr Moose]

goes to point 1, I don't think the list is ordered, it hasn't been before.

Seems to be the case. My list looks different to the one in the OP, too (Elden Ring is in mine and not in the 240k list in OP).
Edit: Oh because it isn't a top 10. there's 12 unordered.

 

[LazyParrot]

goes to point 1, I don't think the list is ordered, it hasn't been before.

It's not about the order, it's about Elden Ring not being on the list at all. If Dying Light makes the list, then a game like Elden Ring that consistently had more players online would necessarily have to be on there as well.

Edit: Actually, never mind. I just realized that Steam actually lists more games than just those 10, and Elden Ring is among them. OP just didn't bother to include them in his post.

 

[Eddie-Griffin]

That many people still play Yu-Gi-Oh? That's a surprise.

Also V Rising still seems to be in early access. Why is it listed as a new release?

Ask Steam. that's what shows up in the link.

 

[Eddie-Griffin]

It's not about the order, it's about Elden Ring not being on the list at all. If Dying Light makes the list, then a game like Elden Ring that consistently had more players online would necessarily have to be on there as well.

Edit: Actually, never mind. I just realized that Steam actually lists more games than just those 10, and Elden Ring is among them. OP just didn't bother to include them in his post.

Or maybe the OP clearly says top 10, and at the bottom says there are more games listed?

 

[Kacho]

This would be cooler if it was ordered.

 

[LazyParrot]

Or maybe the OP clearly says top 10, and at the bottom says there are more games listed?

Well, if you want me to get all pedantic about it... you're still wrong.

For one, these aren't the Top 10. Steam has them in no particular order, and you just took 10 of the 12 games listed there and claimed they were the Top 10. Now, there is a chance that randomly picking 10 out of 12 games will result in the actual Top 10, but that's not the case here. As has been pointed out, Elden Ring consistently had more concurrent players than several other games on this list, which means it would definitely have to be included in the Top 10.

As for your disclaimer that there are more games listed, you specifically said that "these are just the platinum tier games at the top, there are also gold, silver and platinum tier charts with even more games". This would work as a justification for leaving out Elden Ring if it had been in the gold, silver or bronze tiers (I'm assuming the second Platinum in that quote was supposed to be Bronze, since the sentence makes no sense otherwise). It's in platinum tier, though, so any list of "just the platinum tier games" would still have to include it.

 

[Eddie-Griffin]

Well, if you want me to get all pedantic about it... you're still wrong.

There's nothing pedantic about it, you're using that to cover the fact you made a negative remark for no reason.

Anyway, every outlet has thought the same thing, Valve never clarifies that their positions will change randomly, nor do they include what would cause their positions to change, and their own stats on their own site does not indicate anything other than what it says, which is either top selling/grossing or most played. So you're blaming me and various news outlets for the wrong thing anyway, no one knew until later when the charts changes, that the charts changed.

https://gamermatters.com/the-top-sellers-and-most-played-games-on-steam-in-2022/
https://gamerant.com/best-steam-deck-games-most-popular/
https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/the-most-played-games-on-steam-in-2022-is.html
https://clutchpoints.com/top-earning-steam-games-2022
https://hothardware.com/news/steam-top-games-of-2022-listing

 

[diffusionx]

4. Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel
5. Elden Ring

Yugioh-Chads, we won…

 

[R6Rider]

What an overall depressing set of lists.

 

[Eddie-Griffin]

People confused on Yugi placement need to realize the marketing for the game, how it bounced off the incredibly popular duel links phone game, and the fact it's the first well polished major f2p/p2w full format yugioh game to release that uses full 5x5 and actual traditional ruleset so there's been a lot of interest in the game just based off that when you look at reviews and hype articles.

With that said, i think that will drop off heavily once people have their fill, from what I've been reading it's clunky and not exactly friendly to people without money unlike that anime based duel links game.

Of course, I never got the appeal of the game, it's incredibly unbalanced with a lot of crazy rulings and just strange card reads, it might be the most disputable and unbalanced card game of them all actually. I'm surprised the series still has such a big audience, maybe it's the anime that's partially the reason for that.

 

[Dorago]

I find it almost shocking that I play video games six hours a night and played 45 different games last year but only played four of the games on this list. Perhaps not shocking since I always replay Rygar (NES) and Castlevania SOTN every year and half of my yearly playtime is in Minecraft.

 

[Ozriel]

There's nothing pedantic about it, you're using that to cover the fact you made a negative remark for no reason.

Anyway, every outlet has thought the same thing, Valve never clarifies that their positions will change randomly, nor do they include what would cause their positions to change, and their own stats on their own site does not indicate anything other than what it says, which is either top selling/grossing or most played. So you're blaming me and various news outlets for the wrong thing anyway, no one knew until later when the charts changes, that the charts changed.

https://gamermatters.com/the-top-sellers-and-most-played-games-on-steam-in-2022/
https://gamerant.com/best-steam-deck-games-most-popular/
https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/the-most-played-games-on-steam-in-2022-is.html
https://clutchpoints.com/top-earning-steam-games-2022
https://hothardware.com/news/steam-top-games-of-2022-listing

I think more than enough people have pointed out to you that the lists are unordered. The right thing to do would be to update the OP to prevent confusion.
You can easily change to Unordered lists with a simple edit.

 

[sainraja]

1. Apex Legends 2. Dying Light 2 3. Counter-Strike GO 4. PUBG 5.Ark Survival Evolved 6. Lost Ark 7. Goose Goose Duck 8. Destiny 2 9. Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel 10. MWII

Boom! Boom!

 

[Eddie-Griffin]

I think more than enough people have pointed out to you that the lists are unordered. The right thing to do would be to update the OP to prevent confusion.
You can easily change to Unordered lists with a simple edit.

Or, you can just click on the steam site and see what comes up for you, and also click on the links I posted and see many outlets all thought the same thing and that Steam does not that the charts change, or what causes the charts to change on their own site using the terms "top selling" and "most played".

Also because the lists change randomly, an unordered list wouldn't make sense because some games may change from that list, so it wouldn't be a simple edit, it would be pointless. Valve has made this confusing, including for professional outlets, along with confusing terms on their own tabs, so if you want to see what's on there you just have to click the link, you may get a different list than someone else, I just happened to see the same list clutchpoints did in the OP but that may not apply for you.

No list is going to be stagnant unfortunately ordered or not, seems that Valve's best of 2022 isn't exactly as it says. Oh well.

 

[Miles708]

They're.... terrible lists.
All this hardware and the best games are played on Steam deck.
This is hilarious.

 

[ANDS]

OP is for sure imposing an order that STEAM wasn't. DOTA2 being missing from player and sales lists is the first giveaway.

Also V Rising still seems to be in early access. Why is it listed as a new release?

It was released on STEAM this year into "early access" (it isn't the only Early Access title mentioned).

 

[Jaybe]

How is Modern Warfare 2 missing from the “Top Selling NEW RELEASES on Steam for 2022 (Top Grossing Revenue) top 10” list? Stupid Steam.

 

[LazyParrot]

There's nothing pedantic about it, you're using that to cover the fact you made a negative remark for no reason.

I think you're reading too much into this. All I said was that you didn't bother to include the other games. That's a neutral statement, and it's absolutely true.

Anyway, every outlet has thought the same thing, Valve never clarifies that their positions will change randomly, nor do they include what would cause their positions to change, and their own stats on their own site does not indicate anything other than what it says, which is either top selling/grossing or most played. So you're blaming me and various news outlets for the wrong thing anyway, no one knew until later when the charts changes, that the charts changed.

https://gamermatters.com/the-top-sellers-and-most-played-games-on-steam-in-2022/
https://gamerant.com/best-steam-deck-games-most-popular/
https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/the-most-played-games-on-steam-in-2022-is.html
https://clutchpoints.com/top-earning-steam-games-2022
https://hothardware.com/news/steam-top-games-of-2022-listing

That's not really the same thing at all. None of these outlets picked 10 out of the 12 platinum tier games and then claimed they were the Top 10. Their lists include all games and unlike yours, they're unordered.

 

[Eddie-Griffin]

That's not really the same thing at all. None of these outlets picked 10 out of the 12 platinum tier games and then claimed they were the Top 10. Their lists include all games and unlike yours, they're unordered.

The very first link is in order, are you assuming that because they didn't use numbers? Look at the games listed, which almost matches what was shown in this thread. It was just in a slightly different order for them.

Anyway, regardless of ordered and unordered the charts seem to change randomly, and Steams own site which says Top selling and most players without any additional information does make their categorization somewhat.. Confusing and moot now, but it's still useful info, just which steam would put out a definitive static list.