Steam October 2017 - a look at owners stats of recently released games

[InquisitorAles]

I just realized that this topic could be interesting for people who's not into Steam much, so i decided to give it a try and create separate thread for those stats. Before we start, i want to include several disclaimers:
1. All stats are taken from SteamSpy - https://steamspy.com/ Those numbers are not 100% accurate, but they still provides a overall picture of how some games preformed on PC market. If you want to know how SteamSpy algorithm works, read this page - https://steamspy.com/about
2. It was mentioned many times before, but those numbers doesn't fully translates in sales, they only indicates how many users bought game directly from Steam store or activated retail key. It's obviously doesn't includes DRM free sales, retail and online store shipments, which are still sales but can't be included in stats for obvious reasons. Again, owners != sales, remember that before jumping to conclusions!
3. Another reminder that those numbers doesn't include sales from other platforms like GOG, Uplay, etc.

Okay, i hope that'll be enough to keep discussion in place. So, let's see numbers for titles released in October 2017:

More than 250k
The Culling (previously in Early Access) - 593,712 ± 23,219 owners
Middle-earth: Shadow of War - 501,970 ± 21,352
Doki Doki Literature Club! (Free game, added for reasons) - 457,762 ± 20,391
Overgrowth (previously in Early Access) - 259,779 ± 15,364

50k-250k
Battle Chasers: Nightwar - 64,172 ± 7,637
Road Redemption (previously in Early Access) - 126,681 ± 10,730
A Hat in Time - 65,598 ± 7,722
Machine Made: Rebirth (previously in Early Access) - 181,346 ± 12,838
The Evil Within 2 - 102,200 ± 9,638
Gold Rush: The Game - 87,227 ± 8,904
South Park: The Fractured But Whole (Uplay) - 165,897 ± 12,279
ELEX - 114,084 ± 10,183
Bomber Crew - 72,491 ± 8,117
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus - 153,538 ± 11,813
Assassin's Creed Origins (Uplay) - 225,316 ± 14,309

10k-50k
Sakura Gamer - 9,745 ± 2,976
Otaku's Fantasy - 48,486 ± 6,639
Dungeons 3 - 36,840 ± 5,787
WWE 2K18 - 20,202 ± 4,285
The Jackbox Party Pack 4 - 15,449 ± 3,747
Opus Magnum - 13,072 ± 3,447
Meltys Quest - 10,933 ± 3,152
Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization Deluxe Edition - 17,588 ± 3,998

Less than 10k
Holy Potatoes! What the Hell?! - 1,901 ± 1,314
Rogue Trooper Redux - 1,188 ± 1,039
Rosenkreuzstilette Freudenstachel - 1,423 ± 1,392
The Talos Principle VR - 3,803 ± 1,859
A Mortician's Tale - 1,664 ± 1,229
Spelunker Party! - 1,403 ± 1,942
Cyberia 2: Resurrection - 701 ± 1,373
The Mummy Demastered - 711 ± 984
Yomawari: Midnight Shadows - 1,664 ± 1,229
Nights of Azure 2: Bride of the New Moon - 5,467 ± 2,229

Less than 1 week since release date
Spintires: MudRunner - 71,778 ± 8,077
Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back - 701 ± 1,373
Zwei: The Ilvard Insurrection - 2,490 ± 1,841

I tried to list every notable release of October, but there is a chance that i missed some titles, feel free to send PM if you think so. Okay, i also gathered some stats month ago on Old Forum and here is how owners numbers changed for September 2017 releases:

Changes from September (according to my post from Old Forum)
Divinity: Original Sin 2 - 846,599 ± 27,719 (+ ~177k owners)
PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER 2018 - 83,662 ± 8,720 (+ ~22k)
Dishonored: Death of the Outsider - 85,325 ± 8,807 (+ ~11k)
NBA 2K18 - 180,633 ± 12,812 (+ ~39k)
Project CARS 2 - 90,317 ± 9,060 (+ ~18k)
Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!! - 31,848 ± 5,380 (+ ~9k)
Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite - 35,889 ± 5,712 (+ ~12k)
SteamWorld Dig 2 - 18,539 ± 4,105 (+ ~2k)
Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony - 38,979 ± 5,952 (+ ~14k)
RAID: World War II - 14,023 ± 3,570 (no change)
Hob - 46,347 ± 6,491 (+ ~16k)
RUINER - 39,454 ± 5,989 (+ ~9k)
Songbringer - 10,695 ± 3,118 (+ ~5k)
Tokyo Dark - 12,834 ± 3,415 (+ ~4k)
Accel World VS. Sword Art Online Deluxe Edition - 10,695 ± 3,118 (+ ~3k)
WRC 7 FIA World Rally Championship - 10,695 ± 3,118 (+ ~3k)
The Journey Down: Chapter Three - 4,040 ± 1,916 (+ ~1k)
The LEGO NINJAGO Movie Video Game - 4,991 ± 2,130 (+ ~4k)
BLUE REFLECTION - 5,229 ± 2,180 (+ ~3k)
Killer Instinct - 14,974 ± 3,689 (+ ~2k)
RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic - 14,498 ± 3,630 (+ ~10k)
Total War: WARHAMMER II - 500,781 ± 21,326 (+ ~150k)
Cuphead - 867,276 ± 28,055 (+ ~626k)

That's it, hope those numbers were interesting for you!

 

[OniluapL]

Oh, that's great! I was actually looking at some old steamspy threads and it was pretty fun to see the ownership changes in a scale of years, so having this data easily available is pretty useful

Talking about these games in specific, Cuphead's success is actually absurd. It probably sold more on just two plataforms than most of the AAA releases?

 

[asmodejan]

Rosenkreuzstilette Freudenstachel

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riiiight

 

[InquisitorAles]

Oh, that's great! I was actually looking at some old steamspy threads and it was pretty fun to see the ownership changes in a scale of years, so having this data easily available is pretty useful

Talking about these games in specific, Cuphead's success is actually absurd. It probably sold more on just two plataforms than most of the AAA releases?

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It's not just sold more than some AAA releases, excluding free and Early Access games it's second most selling game on Steam after PUBG, so it actually sold better than all AAA 2017 releases on Steam. Don't forget that game is also on GOG. And i doubt that Xbox numbers are lower than on PC, so it probably sold more than 2 million copies without major discounts, which is crazy good numbers for this type game.

 

[OniluapL]

It's not just sold more than some AAA releases, excluding free and Early Access games it's second most selling game on Steam after PUBG, so it actually sold better than all AAA 2017 releases on Steam. Don't forget that game is also on GOG. And i doubt that Xbox numbers are lower than on PC, so it probably sold more than 2 million copies without major discounts, which is crazy good numbers for this type game.

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Yeah, I forgot GoG, which, considering the numbers are this high, is probably significant. I wouldn't guess 2 million, but it must be pretty close. And it's selling well! And, I mean, selling best than all AAA releases on steam has to put it at the very least in the top10 for the year considering all platforms or something, right?

 

[Reinhard]

Too bad Wolfenstein 2 bombed compared to Doom which exploded in popularity on PC. I'm sure the release date is mostly to blame.

 

[Aru]

That's very sad for Zwei. XSeeD doesn't have a lot of success on Steam lately :(

 

[Xequalsy]

I'm still confused why exactly The Culling didn't take off more than it did. Didn't it come out earlier than PUBG? Then again so did stuff like H1Z1 battle royale.