(Circana - Player Engagement Tracker): September 2023 Top 10 games ranked by Monthly Active Users
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Note: This appears to be based on the US only, which could explain the large discrepancies between their Steam stats and the official ones.
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Growth has been in the creative mode, the BR mode is seeing less players.
So now Epic is trying to see how they can gain more money off the Creative stuff.
It's not even playtime, it's monthly users. GaaS and free PSN titles will always dominate this list even if they have less playtime, since all it takes for a player to be counted is for them to log on at least once in the entire month.
What really confuses me is how MK1 is #10 when PlayStation's official numbers put it below BG3 in North America in downloads.
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Epic is making less money because the creator mode is what is popular at the moment, and Epic doesn't get as much revenue there. So player engagement is higher, but less money is coming through.
They still earn plenty though, its just Tim Sweeney being a dick.
Rocket League has some damn good player retention considering the game has been off of Steam for like 3 years now.
The game is just that good. Immediately simple to understand but with more movement depth than perhaps any other game out there. It's a damn near perfect competitive game.
I'd love to see month to month tracking of all the big F2P mega stars. Like how impactful are major tournament months for games like Valorant and CS against games like Fortnite and Apex? How well did themed/holiday months play out against each other? How much did Michael Myers and Jack Skellington do for Fortnite compared to Call of Duty's Spawn and Skeletor guest appearances? We'd be able to speculate these type of things if we just had MAU's for them altogether.
Ultimately what really counts are the sales numbers. BG3 was #2 on the PS Store in both EU and NA, only behind EA Sports FC and NBA2K. So I assume it sold decently. Would be nice if Larian gave us official sales figures though.
Yeah Sony not having a single game in their Top 10 is crazy.
Edit - Not even Destiny 2
I imagine Fortnite, Roblox, CSGO, and a bunch of those massive F2P games in Asia like Crossfire and DFO likely give them a run for their money.
Valorant is definitely underestimated though, especially now with its massive Chinese launch.
And three of the top 10 PlayStation games are Microsoft first party.
