2016 is almost over, so it’s time now to see which games sold more than one million copies on Steam. Thanks to SteamSpy’s data, we have a pretty good idea at which titles were able to hit the “one million” goal, so here we go.
Do note that we will not be counting the F2P games, or remasters of older games that were offered for free to their already existing owners, or games that were already available via Steam’s Early Access program in 2014 or 2015.
H1Z1: King of the Kill appears to be the most successful title – in terms of sales – that was released in 2016 on Steam. H1Z1: King of the Kill has managed to sell more than 3 million copies on Steam, and was released via Steam Early Access on February 17th.
Stardew Valley is the second best selling game on Steam. ConcernedApe’s title was released in February and has managed to sell almost 2 million copies (1.89 million copies).
Dead by Daylight, a multiplayer (4vs1) horror game where one player takes on the role of the savage Killer, and the other four players play as Survivors, was also a successful title. This horror game was released in June and has managed to sell more than one million copies (it managed to hit the ‘one million’ goal prior to its free weekend).
Regarding triple-A games, DOOM, Civilization VI, Dark Souls III, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Tom Clancy’s The Division, XCOM 2 and Total War: WARHAMMER have sold more than one million copies on Steam.
And these are the games that sold more than one million copies on Steam in 2016.
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Yes, yes you are.
Doctor Evil demands “one million” copies. Then everybody laughs
fkin daybreak
top sales games dont have DENUVO DRM ! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6f9b7d310fbec0ab467d928a8933a164b423894fafa7809707b30dcf0faf70b5.png
Doom 2016, Rise of the tomb raider, Tom Clancy’s the Division, Pro Evolution Soccer (not sure about this one), have or used to have DENUVO.
Also, most of those games are online or free to play, you can’t beat the Online DRM, unless u don’t play that is.
Doom was cracked 4 months in. Rise of the tomb raider is not much of a argument since it came the last game sold alot as well and division has Always online.
And they selled over a million units, which is my only point.
Yet Civ6 sold more than any of them in less time and still never dropped to 30$ like most of them (then DS3 and Xcom 2), your point ?
They selled over a million units and stop reading more than it is applied to my posts.
I thought DRM was so bad that like 90 percent of legitimate buyers avoid it like the plague O_O. How come games that used it still sold 1 mil copies olol?
Inb4 r*tards say “DRM doesn’t increase sales”. I never stated that it does.
Yup, i was only replying to a guy who was wrongly stating “the list doesn’t have games with DENUVO DRM” and then there was lots of replies stating non denuvo games who sold better.
There was also the point i made that the majority of the winners in those list are online games. You can’t pirate an online game (at least not as easily as an offline game).
“There was also the point i made that the majority of the winners in those list are online games”
Read the article babe, no online no EA games counted.
There are 18 games listed as “free” (online games). H1z1 probably counts as online, so does The Division and Killing Floor 2 (21 games total). At least online games beat denuvo games lmao. I don’t care if John didn’t wanted to count free to play games, but even then, online games are winning big.
“There are 18 games listed as free”
No they are not, article is not about Free or Early access games.
Killing Floor has offline single player and Don’t Starve Together beats all of those, your point ?
I’m talking about the list, not the article dummy.
Article is not about the list Ftard.
Who cares if John doesn’t want to include Free-to-play in his interpretation. As if those games are made of charity and not making money lmao, stoopid a*s.
Then don’t post a comment if you don’t care about the article.
The list is part of the article, dummy. I just choose to focus on all the games on the list. Btw the biggest winner (h1z1) is a online game.
Are you re*arded or what ? who says games won’t sell because of DRM ? ever ?
User Daniele Girardi made a post claiming that “top sales games dont have DENUVO DRM !”. This post got 5 upvotes, yours included :^)
So by saying top sales games dont have denuvo automatically means games with denuvo wont sale ?
Exactly, on top of being a lie that is.
Well then, you are a re*ard.
I’m not the one upvoting lies just because i dislike the DRM
No, you are the one who made stuff out of your a** and calls it a valid point.
lol, you still going with this? I guess you are not going to expose the stuff i made up would you? That would require you to make stuff out of your a-hole
Yeah ok, So ? wtf are you trying to say kid ?
They selled over a million units? Stop trying to find hidden meanings behind my post kid.
So what ? X & Y sold million copies, now what ? many other games sold way more without it, so ? are you mentaly ill or just act like one ?
Check the original post who stated there is no denuvo games in the list dummy.
Don’t care about that, made a replay to your re*arded comment.
You don’t care about context? ok then, could have stated it earlier. Btw i don’t buy games , so if there is one man that should be irrationaly mad at denuvo it would be me lmao.
What context ? you didn’t have a point, just a denuvo spam.
I stated my point several times but you keep getting asshurt over denuvo games selling over a million units. So some non denuvo games managed to sell more, so what? Didn’t claimed that they didn’t.
Forgot to add Total War: Warhammer. The game hasn’t being cracked yet.
You are right except for Division, that game doesn’t have denuvo, but it is online game and online only.
You can’t easily pirate an online game so it ends up almost similar to denuvo games, only worse.
Mostly indie and remaster titles, with few brand new games that aren’t either of the previous two.
Happy to see Stardew and Starbound selling that much, but I’d also like to see more AAA sales data.
Why?
To the pits with the over budget and over marketed nonsense, praise the underdogs!
I know, I know. I’d just like to see us break that stupid stigma that gets attached by consolites once in a while.
Bleh, to the pits with that too. PC gaming is much more than that IMO.
And also, I’m a gamer at heart, I like games I just happen to have some silly ideals as to why I am bound to one specific platform. Outside of those ideals (and money), there’s absolutely nothing impeding me to buy a console and enjoy the triple A stuff.
I know it’s much more, but sales data is clearly showing us that indies and F2P/MMO’s are where it’s at for us, despite the vast library, those show up at the top.
What I’d love to see is actual diversity in the charts. I know we have universal diversity within the platform itself, but not with the charts.
Top charts means nothing if you ask me.
Of course, suits will use the data to say that their new hotness isn’t worth bringing to PC since millions are playing other things, but that is greed talking.
Like you’ve said, the library is vast and so is the public. AAA budget games have a defined public/market but most of what happens is the companies trying to achieve F2P/MMOs numbers/public, ignoring completely that is a different thing.
Top charts showing F2P/MMOs and indies isn’t a surprise. How can you overbudget and overmarketed $60 Trumps + DLCs + Microtransactions can compete with that? It can’t.
And here lies the crux, it shouldn’t. That’s not your public, there is people claiming for your product if you just give it a chance. There is no need for expensive marketing, extremely high budget and overload of micro and macro transactions if companies learn to focus on who their public/market really are.
So I repeat, there’s no harm in having the majority of PC gaming in the F2P/MMO/indie bubble (especially when there are really good games). It doesn’t mean that the AAA isn’t lucrative here, just that the public/market will reach for what is more beneficial for them (can’t compete with free/low budget after all, also the all around content is there).
“but I’d also like to see more AAA sales data.”
Sure if they make good AAA games like doom and not the usual copy pasted “cinematic” nonsense
DOOM was something refreshing to see happen once in a while.
Funny because DOOM has actual cinematic work put into it.
Doom was dull as sheeeit, maybe i’ll get back to it later.
Blows games like CoD out the water any time of day for me.
I was playing Brutal Doom 64 when i begun playing Doom 2016. Saw no reason to continue playing after grabbing a plasma rifle. I’ll give it a chance later because i need to free space on my HD and i don’t like deleting games i haven’t beat :^)
go for it
I got bored of Doom 2016 pretty quickly (after getting the plasma gun). Played Brutal Doom 64 way more.
still quite low for 125M active subscribers?
This article is flawed, because KOTK counts also people who bought H1Z1 before split, so final number is much lower than the one you wrote author.
games like bioshock remaster and defy gravity didnt sell 1m copies this year. on bioshocks case, owners of the previous versions got this game for free and with defy gravity it was a bug where the game got the release date set this year when it released the soundtrack (but the game is like 5 years old or something) so yea :p
This. Many of the games on the list were free for players who owned the original versions of the games.
“we will not be counting the F2P games, or remasters of older games that were offered for free to their already existing owners”
Learn to read muchacho.
uh but they were counted? if they werent then bioshock REMASTER wouldnt be there would it? lol
Read the article you dumb a**.
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author made multiple mistakes by writing this article, most of things he wrote are wrong, and he seems a bit uninformed, i wish they read comments, and fix article
I’m guessing like other data counting sites linked to Steam they only includes those who have their accounts available for the public to see. Also some of these games are available outside of Steam so the copies sold could be a lot greater. Regardless they seem like healthy figures, don’t know how they compare to other platforms.
not really, it counts full numbers
Darkest Dungeon, nice.
Many of these games have been in Early Access for several years and the release date you’re quoting is the date that the title exited Early Access, not the date of first release.
Starbound has been on sale since April 2013. During that time it has amassed 2 million owners. But most of those sales occurred when the game was first first put on Steam, some years ago.
Don’t Starve Together is another example, effectively been on sale since 2014 as part of a Don’t Starve “Buy the current game get the next one free” offer.
pathetic. The only thing that keeps pc gaming alive are f2p garbage games.
Have you read the article ?
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Steam has over 125M active users. And even pc shooters like Doom sell more copies on ps. What happened to the master race ? Most of you pc peasants buy keys from thieves like g2a or cdkeys.
not gonna lie, i got bf1, tf|2 both from cdkeys dot com, saving money is fun even if i could afford them at full price, fk dlc/microtransactions/deluxe crap editions etc.
and games that are not f2p, but should be because of microtransactions overload
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