It appears that DOOM and Sid Meiers Civilization VI were two of the best – sales wise – Steam releases in 2016. Both of these titles have sold more than 2 million copies. Truth be told, there was a free weekend for DOOM that boosted its playerbase. However, Civilization VI has managed to achieve those sales without any free weekend.
The same can also be said about Dark Souls 3 and Rise of the Tomb Raider. Both of these games have sold more than 1.5 million units on Steam. Dark Souls 3 has sold 1,952,608 copies, whereas Rise of the Tomb Raider has sold 1,922,680 copies. From the looks of it, these games won’t be able to hit the 2 million goal in 2017, despite the fact that they are so close to it.
For comparison purposes, the 2013 remake of Tomb Raider has sold almost 5 million copies on Steam. As such, Rise of the Tomb Raider is the second most successful Tomb Raider game on Steam. The same can be said about Dark Souls 3. While the third part in the Souls series has sold better than the second, it does not come close to the sales of the first one.
On the other hand, Civilization VI appears to be – at the time of writing – the third most successful Civilization game. While it has sold better than Civilization: Beyond Earth, it falls behind Civilization III and Civilization V!
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Rise and DS3, both games significantly better than their predecessors.
Every pc gamer should buy Doom 2016, it was the best game I’ve played last year
All great games, except Tomb Raider.
Tomb Raider still runs like junk, but I enjoyed many parts of it. Less inspired than the original for sure though.
More focus on stealth/combat, less innovation on puzzles/tomb raiding
It started off cool and gameplay was fun but then they dragged it out too long, and it got tedious. I was happy to see Trinity mentioned again then they drove that to the ground as well.
Anyone know if Dark Souls 3 supports 144hz displays? If so,I may purchase it for another playthrough (played through it 3 or 4 times on the PS4 already, but the frame times aren’t great).
I play with V-Sync off but the game won’t go over 60FPS.
WOW ! Impressive. 2 million copies sold on a platform with hundreds of millions of users. (sarcasm)