Here Are The Top Performing Steam Games Of 2023

Valve has released its annual “Best Of” list highlighting the top-performing games on Steam measured by gross revenue and player engagement.

The categories are top sellers, best-selling new releases, most-played games on PC, most-played games on Steam Deck, highest-grossing early access games, most-played using a controller, and best-selling VR titles. The top 12 games in each category earn Platinum status, while everything below them is grouped into a descending ranking of Gold, Silver, and Bronze. It’s a fun snapshot of the games Steam users dug into most this year and a reminder that games seemingly on the downtrend or long in the tooth (like, say, Destiny 2) clearly have a lot of players still logging in to play.  

You can view the complete list here, but we’ve listed the Platinum-ranked games alphabetically in each category (Valve does not rank these games).

Top Sellers (highest gross revenue earned in 2023)

• Apex Legends
• Baldur’s Gate 3
• Call of Duty (MW III, Warzone, MW II)
• Counter-Strike 2
• Cyberpunk 2077
• Destiny 2
• Dota 2
• Hogwarts Legacy
• Lost Ark
• PUBG: Battlegrounds
• Sons of the Forest
• Starfield

New Releases (most revenue earned during first two weeks of launch)

• Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
• Baldur’s Gate 3
• Cities: Skylines II
• EA Sports FC 24
• Hogwarts Legacy
• Payday 3
• Remnant II
• Resident Evil 4 (remake)
• Sons of the Forest
• Starfield
• Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
• Street Fighter 6

Most Played (number of peak concurrent player counts over 40,000)

• Apex Legends
• Baldur’s Gate 3
• Counter-Strike 2
• Destiny 2
• Dota 2
• Goose Goose Duck
• Hogwarts Legacy
• Lost Ark
• PUBG: Battlegrounds
• Sons of the Forest
• Starfield 

Early Access (highest gross revenue earned before and after launching in 1.0 this year)

• Against the Storm
• Baldur’s Gate 3
• Dave the Diver
• Demonologist
• Disney Dreamlight Valley
• Everspace 2
• Farlight 84
• Marvel Snap
• My Time at Sandrock
• Ready or Not
• Sun Haven
• Wartales

Steam Deck (most played games on the device based on daily active player counts this year)

• Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
• Baldur’s Gate 3
• Cyberpunk 2077
• Dave the Diver
• Elden Ring
• Half-Life
• Hogwarts Legacy
• Grand Theft Auto V
• Resident Evil 4 (remake)
• Starfield
• Vampire Survivors
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Controller (games most played using a gamepad)

• Apex Legends
• Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
• Call of Duty (MW III, Warzone, MW II)
• EA Sports FC 24
• Elden Ring
• FIFA 23
• Hogwarts Legacy
• NBA 2K23
• Resident Evil 4 (remake)
• Rocket League
• Starfield
• Street Fighter 6

VR (highest revenue earned)

• Beat Saber
• Blade & Sorcery
• Bonelab
• Boneworks
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR
• Five Nights at Freddy’s: Help Wanted 2
• Ghosts of Tabor
• Gorilla Tag
• Half-Life: Alyx
• Into the Radius VR
• Pavlov
• VTOL VR