Top Sellers:
The Top Sellers list is exactly what it sounds like - a look at the 100 games earning the most revenue on Steam during 2021. To get the total revenue, we look at game sales, in-game transactions, and DLC sales for every app on Steam from January 1st, 2021 through December 15th, 2021.
Being the sixth time we've organized the yearly Top Sellers list, it's quite interesting to look back and see which games have become perennial champs, while also perusing the brand new hits that smashed their way to the top.
In terms of titles new to this list, 2021 was a good year for games making their debut in both the Platinum category as well as the list overall. Six games made their debuts in the Platinum category this year (
New World, Valheim, NARAKA: BLADEPOINT, Apex Legends, Battlefield™ 2042, and Dead by Daylight), with more than a third of the entire list being comprised of first-time Top Seller appearances. Many of these debuts are new releases for 2021, but a handful of older titles also cracked into the top 100, thanks to continued passion from their developers and dedicated community support from players.
Meanwhile, many of the perennial leaders continued to enjoy success on Steam. Dota 2 CS:GO, and Grand Theft Auto V all remain in the Platinum category for the sixth-straight year, which comes as no surprise to the passionate fans that launched these games throughout 2021. Five-time appearances in the Platinum category include PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
A special shoutout to Destiny 2 as well, which has made the Platinum three years running since its Steam release in 2019.
Notes:
A couple of notes regarding the lists themselves. Since we don't divulge revenue specifics for the games on these lists, we sort them into categories to give an idea of how they stack up. Games are randomly sorted within the following categories:
Platinum: 1st - 12th
Gold: 13th - 24th
Silver: 25th - 40th
Bronze: 41st - 100th
The games on the Most Played lists are organized by peak concurrent player count and grouped into thresholds based on the number of players.
Finally, when generating these lists, we are looking at data from January 1st 2021 through December 15th, 2021.
Top Global Best Sellers of 2021 on STEAM Ranked by 4 categories within which they are randomly sorted:
Platinum:
- Dead By Daylight
- DOTA 2
- PUBG
- Destiny 2
- NARAKA: BLADEPOINT
- Battlefield 2042
- Counter Strike: Global Offensive
- New World
- Rainbow Six: Siege
- Grand Theft Auto V
- Apex Legends
- Valheim
Gold:
- FIFA 22
- Forza Horizon 5
- Rust
- Sea Of Thieves
- Back 4 Blood
- It Takes Two
- Final Fantasy XIV: Online
- Forza Horizon 4
- Warframe
- The Elder Scrolls: Online
- Red Dead Redemption 2
Silver:
- ARK: Survival Evolved
- Monster Hunter: WORLD
- Mass Effect: Legendary Edition
- Age Of Empires IV
- Halo Infinite
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Outriders
- Phasmophobia
- The Sims 4
- Resident Evil VIIlage
- Stellaris
- Sid Meier's Civilization VI
Bronze:
- Rimworld
- Football Manager 2022
- Cities: Skylines
- Farming Simulator '22
- Hunt: Showdown
- Raft
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links
- Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice GOTY Edition
- No Man's Sky
- Battlefield V
- Planet Zoo
- EA Play(Subscription)
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- Call Of Duty: Black Ops III
- Biomutant
- Hearts Of Iron IV
- Star Wars: The Old Republic(F2P MMO)
- ARMA III
- Fallout 76
- Dyson Sphere Program
- Stardew Valley
- TOTAL WARHAMMER II
- Crusader Kings III
- Nioh 2 - The Complete Edition
- SMITE
- Fall Guys
- Tales Of Arise
- Halo: The Masterchief Collection
- The Binding Of Isaac: Rebirth
- Humankind
- GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE-
- Age Of Empires II: Definitive Edition
- EA Sports FIFA 21
- World Of Tanks Blitz
- Bloons:TD6
- theHunter: Call Of The Wild
- Days Gone
- DOOM Eternal
- Satisfactory
- NIER Replicant
- Half-Life: Alyx
- Fallout 4
- NBA 2k21
- World Of Warships
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
- Microsoft Flight Simulator Game Of The Year Edition
- Deep Rock Galatic
- Dying Light
- Tale Of Immortal
- Wallpaper Engine
- Baldur's Gate 3
- NBA 2k22
- Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis
- F1 2021
- DayZ
- Borderlands 3
- Hades
- The Forest
Edit: Also added in Top NEW RELEASES in 2021 also as measured by Gross Revenue. Thanks eonden
Platinum (top 12)
- Outriders
- Valheim
- Mass Effect: Legendary Edition
- Back 4 Blood
- Age of Empires 4
- Naraka: Bladepoint
- Resident Evil Village
- Farming Simulator 22
- New World
- Battlefield 2042
- Halo Infinite
- Forza Horizon 5
- Guilty Gear Strive
- Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous
- Nier Replicant
- Humankind
- Football Manager 2022
- It Takes Two
- Biomutant
- F1 2021
- Days Gone
- Icarus
- Deathloop
- Tale of Immortal
- Tales of Arise
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