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For several years, Valve can boast about being the owner of Steam, one of the favorite platforms for PC gamers. Yes, there is competition out there, but without a doubt, it continues to hold its own as the darling of many, as its statistics show.
Speaking of data, the company has decided to close this year by sharing quite exciting information about user behavior over the last 365 days, letting us know which have been the most popular games in different categories.
In case you missed it: Steam has new Sales & Popularity Charts
The most popular Steam games of 2022
Without much to add, below we present you with the data shared by Steam through the official page of the platform divided into six categories: best sellers, new releases, most played, Early Access Graduates, Best of VR, and Most popular games on Steam Deck
Best sellers
The games with the highest gross revenue during these 12 months
- PUBG: Battlegrounds
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
- Dota 2
- Destiny 2
- Apex Legends
- Monster Huner Rise
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel
- Naraka: Bladepoint
- Dying Light 2: Stay Human
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
- Lost Ark
- Elden Ring
New releases
The 2022-released video games with the grossest revenue generated for two weeks since its launch.
- Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
- V Rising
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel
- Dying Light 2: Stay Human
- LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
- Total War: Warhammer III
- Elden Ring
- FIFA 23
- Monster Hunter Rise
- Lost Ark
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
- Stray
Most played
This list includes video games that have gathered more than 240 thousand players simultaneously at some point in the year, excluding raffles, weekends, or other special occasions.
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
- PUBG: Battlegrounds
- Dying Light 2
- Elden Ring
- Dota 2
- ARK: Survival Evolved
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel
- Destiny 2
- Apex Legends
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
- Lost Ark
- Goose Goose Duck
Early Access Graduates
The games with the highest gross revenue generated during 2022 in their early access phase and those that received their final version.
- TemTem
- World War 3
- Rogue Legacy 2
- Vampire Survivors
- Foxhole
- Teardown
- Power Wash Simulator
- Grounded
- Raft
- Police Simulator: Patrol Officers
- Dread Hunger
- Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
Best of VR
As the name suggests, the top-grossing VR games in 2022
- Boneworks
- Superhot VR
- Vtol VR
- Bonelab
- Blade and Sorcery
- Pavlov VR
- Zenith: The Last City
- Half-Life: Alyx
- After the Fall
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR
- Beat Saber
- Into the Radius VR
Most popular games on Steam Deck
Finally, the year's most played games on Steam Deck measured by daily active players
- Persona 5 Royal
- Red Dead Redemption II
- Cyberpunk 2077
- No Man's Sky
- Vampire Survivors
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- Cult of the Lamb
- Multiversus
- Stray
- Elden Ring
- Hades
- Spider-Man Remastered
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