Last week, the best-selling game on Steam predictably became Elden Ring. The bestseller chart includes all its editions and pre—orders – together they took four places at once, including the first three. The recently released Steam Deck also showed strong sales.

Pancake Week festival for developers from the CIS will not take place next week. META Publishing made the decision to postpone the event indefinitely due to the beginning of [Roskomnadzor] with Ukraine. Now the company is resolving the issue with representatives of GOG and Steam.

Dying Light 2: Stay Human and Lost Ark no longer reign on the Steam bestseller chart. Last week, the first place went only to the released Total War: WARHAMMER III. Cyberpunk 2077 also returned to the list of the best-selling games of the week.Total War: WARHAMMER III

Another successful indie game from domestic developers has appeared on the market. We are talking about the Diplomacy is Not an Option strategy. In just six days, the project’s revenue on Steam exceeded $ 1 million.

Although Dying Light 2: Stay Human still tops the Steam bestseller chart, Lost Ark is breathing down her back. Last week, sets with bonuses for Korean MMORPG took five places in the ranking at once. Also, Lost Ark became the second peak online game in the history of Steam.

Negative reviews on Steam can be very painful for the developer, but you should not ignore them. So says Joe Henson, one of the creators of the indie shooter Hypercharge: Unboxed. In an article for Game Developer, he explained why it is important to respond to such comments and how best to do it.

The western version of the Korean MMORPG Lost Ark has not yet been released, but it has already become a hit. Its release is scheduled for February 11, but yesterday the owners of special packs received early access to the game. After that, the online project instantly exceeded 500 thousand people.

Dying Light 2: Stay Human has an extremely successful start on Steam. Zombie action from Techland became the best-selling game of last week, capturing more than half of the places on the bestseller chart. He took six lines at once, including the first three.

What helps to extend the life cycle of the game in the modern PC market? This question was asked by the expert Simon Carless (Simon Carless). He highlighted several common features that are inherent in the most successful titles on Steam in terms of their findability in the store.Carless shared the results in his GameDiscoverCo newsletter.

There have been no significant changes in the Steam bestseller chart for three weeks now — God of War and Monster Hunter Rise continue to top the rating. Except that the third place this time went to Dying Light 2: Stay Human, which is scheduled for release on February 4.

There was a discussion among developers about the dominance of indie games, which are released on Steam by the thousands every year. Two polar points of view collided. First, most of these titles are not needed by the market, because they have zero value. The second is that people should not be forbidden to express themselves through creativity and consider games only as a business.

Game marketing consultant Chris Zukowski explained why developers need to get the first 10 reviews on Steam as soon as possible. This is the key bar, after which the store’s algorithms notice any game and can significantly increase its visibility in the store.Zhukovsky told about this in a small thread on his Twitter page.

Steam has set another record. According to the VG Insights platform, more than 11 thousand new games appeared in the Valve store last year. Now an average of 30 titles are launched on the site every day. However, most of them are developed by small indie teams that have become even more active in releasing games since the beginning of the pandemic.General data

God of War is the first PlayStation Studios game that managed to stay at the top of the Steam bestseller chart for more than one week. Also last week, Monster Hunter Rise performed well, gaining a foothold on the second line of the rating.

Spire of Sorcery is a turn—based RPG from the creators of Gremlins, Inc. Despite the large number of vishlists, less than 1,500 copies were sold in the first week. Sergey Klimov, the founder of Charlie Oscar, spoke about the reasons for the failure, including a sharp change of concept, blind faith in success and confusion with different versions of the game.

Indie platformer Neko Ghost, Jump! generated over 17 thousand vishlist before the release. However, the launch turned out to be a complete failure — only 100 copies were sold on the first day. Developer Victor Burgos tried to figure out the reasons for the failure, and industry colleagues joined the discussion.

Three days ago, on January 14, God of War was officially released on PC. The game immediately climbed to the top of the weekly Steam bestseller chart, shifting Ready or Not. The shooter stayed in first place for three weeks in a row.

The year 2022 started intensively for Steam. During the first full week, the platform updated the record for peak online and changed the leader in the list of the most “desired” games. But there were almost no changes in the bestseller chart — Ready or Not topped it for the third time in a row.

On the eve of the New Year, the Steam team decided to name the most successful games of 2021. Valheim and Battlefield 2042 were in the top sales, and Cyberpunk 2077 and Halo Infinite were in the top online.