About the most trending Steam games – in our weekly report. This time the top is headed by Seasons after Fall. In second place is the domestic development – The Final Station.
With the approval and on the SteamSpy database (Sergey Galenkin’s statistical service that collects a wide range of data from Steam) the site App2Top.ru continues to regularly analyze and publish the weekly Top 10 trending games of the Valve digital distribution platform.
The top trending games on SteamSpy are formed not only based on sales, but also based on mentions of projects in the media and streaming services. Steam Spy shows data based on the last three days. The situation on Friday, September 9, looked like this:
First place for Seasons after Fall, a cartoon two-dimensional platformer about the adventures of a wild fox. Many people compare the game with the main revelation of the genre of last year – Ori, also praised for the graphics, music and atmosphere. Very rare negative reviews (the rating of the application on Steam is 93%) are associated with the simplicity of riddles.
The second place goes to the Russian game The Final Station, a mix of platformer, bagel, train simulator … and all this in a world experiencing a zombie apocalypse. A very bright project, reminiscent of the gameplay of Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion. In a week since the release on Steam, the game has acquired 15 thousand users (with a price tag of $ 14.99). The user rating of the game is 82%. By the way, the game received the Grand Prix at White Nights Moscow 2015.
The Turing Test takes the third position in the top. This is a sci-fi first-person adventure game inspired by Portal and The Talos Principle. It looks like a very expensive AAA project in the spirit of the movie “Gravity”. Created by the British studio Bulkhead Interactive. Published by Square Enix, which has recently developed a love for non-standard projects.
The leader in the number of users among the current trending top is the Chinese Lost Castle, which is located in the fourth position in the chart. If most of the other new products do not have ten thousand users, then this project has 130 thousand. Moreover, 100 thousand fell on the Celestial Empire. But Lost Castle doesn’t look like an Asian game. The project seemed to be done by fans of Enter the Gungeon and Cartoon Network, who decided to turn their favorite title from a scroll shooter into a role-playing browser.
The Curious Expedition, followed by the fifth place in the top, is one of the most unusual releases of recent times. The player takes on the role of a 19th century traveler competing for fame with other scientists and discoverers in exploring unknown territories. From the point of view of gameplay, it is a mix of text adventure and a full-fledged role-playing game. It is made in retro style. Visually very similar to Colonizations 1994. The project is in the game library of more than 30 thousand people. The rating is 91%.
The multiplayer arcade shooter Livelock, located in the sixth position, is conceptually much simpler than other projects. The reviews call it a modern version of the Alian Shooter. And then they scold for a small amount of content and quickly boring gameplay. Critics, however, are not very many. Reviews of the game are mostly positive (75%). This is the first paid game on Steam from Perfect World Entertainment.
The seventh place is a parody role-playing game Dungeon Rushers. This is another project about which it is difficult to tell briefly and succinctly. In fact, it is a bagel with the ability to build your own dungeons, pump up a party of adventurers and fight monsters in a tactical mode similar to the one in Disciples. The game just came out of “Early Access” this week. The number of its owners is about 5 thousand. At the same time, the rating is 86%.
The eighth place is next in line. NeuroVoider scroll shooter (however, the authors themselves call it a twin-stick shooter) is another game about the love of pixel graphics, electronic music and acid colors. High ratings and very small sales so far. But, considering, for example, that the same Enter the Gungeon has more than 400 thousand users, perhaps the project just needs to be given time.
The ninth position of the trending top is N++, the continuation of the cult minimalistic platformer N+. This is the quintessence of platform gameplay. Difficult levels, lack of complex graphics and colors in the style of MS-DOS. Cult status in two weeks provided the game with 14 thousand users at a price of $ 14.99.
Closes the Top 10 – The Warlock of Firetop Mountain. The project simulates a tabletop RPG in which the player does not have a table, but a whole castle for the game, along which he moves the figure of his hero. The rating of the project is off the scale – 92%. Getting users is much worse. Their number did not exceed the mark of 4 thousand.
P.S. For technical reasons, this column has not been published for the last two weeks. It should be noted that during the two weeks that we did not follow the top – it has completely changed. None of the Top 10 games for August 19 retained their positions in the current trending SteamSpy top.