Valve has summed up the past year and named the most popular, best-selling games of 2022 on its Steam digital store.

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Sales leaders of 2022

As a “Seller Leader”, Steam refers to the games that generated the most revenue in the first two weeks after release. Unfortunately, the amount of income is not mentioned, only four categories are available: platinum (from 1 to 12 places), gold (from 13 to 24 places), silver (from 25 to 40 places) and bronze (from 41 to 100 places). The games are arranged by category in random order.

Platinum

• Dota 2
• CS: GO
• Apex Legends
• Naraka: Bladepoint
• Elden Ring
• Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel
• PUBG
• Destiny 2
• Monster Hunter Rise
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
• Dying Light 2
• Lost Ark

Gold

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• FIFA 23
• War Thunder
• Warframe
• Ready or Not
• Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege
• God of War
• Red Dead Redemption 2
• GTA V
• Total War: Warhammer III
• Dead by Daylight
• Cyberpunk 2077
• Forza Horizon 5

Silver

• Cult of the Lamb
• Raft
• Stellaris
• Cities: Skylines
• Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
• V Rising
• Team Fortress 2
• RimWorld
• Phasmophobia
• Black Desert
• Stray
• Project Zomboid
• Rust
• Hunt: Showdown
• The Forest
• FIFA 22
• LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
• It Takes Two
• The Elder Scrolls Online
• FINAL FANTASY XIV Online
• Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered
• Civilization VI
• Sea of ​​​​Thieves
• The Sims 4
• NBA 2K22

Bronze

• Satisfactory
• Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade
• theHunter: Call of the Wild
• Planet Zoo
• Fallout 76
• Microsoft Flight Simulator
• Persona 5 Royal
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
• NBA 2K23
• Grounded
• Football Manager 2023
• World of Warships
• Battlefield 2042
• Call of Duty: Black Ops III
• Hell Let Loose
• Monster Hunter: World
• Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands
• Borderlands 3
• Horizon Zero Dawn
• Forza Horizon 4
• Age of Empires IV
• Dread Hunger
• Euro Truck Simulator 2
• Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice – GOTY Edition
• No Man’s Sky
• F1 22
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
• Undecember
• Wallpaper Engine
• Crusader Kings III
• Battlefield V
• Stardew Valley
• New World
• Valheim
• Arma 3
• ARK: Survival Evolved
• Deep Rock Galactic
• Victoria 3
• Star Wars: The Old Republic
• American Truck Simulator
• Risk of Rain 2
• Smite
• Squad
• Terraria
• Halo Infinite
• Path of Exile
• Hearts of Iron IV
• Farming Simulator 22
• DayZ
• Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord

The best novelties of 2022

This ranking presents the best novelties of the year by gross revenue.

• Stray
• Elder Ring
• Dying Light 2 Stay Human
• Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
• FIFA 23
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
• V Rising
• Monster Hunter Rise
• LEGO Star Wars: Skywalker. Saga
• Total War: Warhammer III
• Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Master

The most popular games of 2022

This rating includes the most popular games of the year by the number of simultaneous players (more than 240 thousand players at the same time).

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
• Apex Legends
• Dota 2
• ARK: Survival Evolved
• Goose Goose Duck
• Destiny 2
• PUBG: Battlegrounds
• Elder Ring
• Dying Light 2: Stay Human
• Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
• Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Master

2022 Early Access graduates

This ranking presents the best games of the year that came out of early access and brought in the largest amount of gross revenue.

• Raft
• World War 3
• PowerWash Simulator
• Grounded
• Police Simulator: Patrol Officers
• Rogue Legacy 2
• Dread Hunger
• Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
• Vampire Survivors
• Teardown
• Foxhole
• Temtem

The best VR games of 2022

This ranking includes the top VR exclusives of 2022 by gross revenue.

• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR
• Half-Life: Alyx
• VTOL VR
• After Fall
• Superhot VR
• Boneworks
• Pavlov VR
• Beat Saber
• Bonelab
• Into the Radius VR
• Zenith: The Last City
• Blade and Sorcery

The most popular games of 2022 on Steam Deck

This ranking presents the most popular games of the year on Steam Deck by number of daily active players.

• Vampire Survivors
• Cult of the Lamb
• No Man’s Sky
• Red Dead Redemption 2
• MultiVersus
• Hades
• Stray
• Cyberpunk 2077
• Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered
• Elder Ring
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
• Persona 5 Royal

Ratings of past years:

• The best of 2016
• The best of 2017
• The best of 2018
• The best of 2019
• The best of 2020
• The best of 2021