Steam now has a fancy graph section showing the best-selling and most-played games in real time. If you want a broader picture of what’s trending on Valve’s storefront, you can check out the new weekly rankings of the top sellers, along with the top new releases each year. month. It’s a useful way to see what’s trending on the platform if you’re really into that kind of thing.
You can see the new charts here, which replaces the site’s old stats page. It’s pretty handy set up, showing a peak player count and how many are online right now. Dig into the top seller rankings and you can see the top 100 games listed by revenue. There is an option to filter by country or set it to show global sales, if you like. Valve says its new method for calculating revenue from top sellers, including DLC and in-game purchases, will filter through the homepage, genre pages, and tags.
The most played section shows another top 100 that you can filter by daily or current player count. Flipping through the weeks shows that Steam floorare still holding steady there at the top, as they show the number of weeks something was charted and any changes. The monthly charts are a bit dry to read, there are some interesting categories for each month. For example, July has a section highlighting games from Japanese studios.
There are a few different events going on on Steam at the moment that could help shuffle things up and down the new leaderboards. Like me report yesterday, the TactiCon strategy conference just started and ended on the 26th. Steam Bash Bash started earlier in the week and ended on the 25th, Graham noted on Tuesday. It’s a themed sale focused on hack-and-slash and character action games.
In other Steamly news, the sequel, um, Steam Next Festival begins on October 3rd and runs through to 10th. That show will begin at 6pm BST / 7pm CEST / 10am PST. Mentally prepare for the demos.
