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.

The Ready or Not tactical shooter became the best-selling game on Steam last week, despite the hype around the school shooting level. The previously leading Halo Infinite went to the fourth place of the bestseller chart.

Last week, the first place in the Steam bestseller chart was again taken by the Halo Infinite story campaign. But Cyberpunk 2077 and FIFA 22 this time could not get into the list of the best-selling games of the week.

Game marketing consultant Chris Zukowski shared data on how many vishlist developers usually receive in the first two weeks after the launch of the game page on Steam. He talked about the averages and explained why low performance at the start does not guarantee failure.A small analysis by Zhukovsky is based on data on 58 games on Steam.

According to gaming expert Simon Carless, the number of copies sold and the revenue of the game on Steam can be roughly calculated based on the number of user reviews. It turned out that in October, only 1.5% of the total number of new releases sold over 40,000 copies in the first seven days.Carless shared his thoughts in the latest issue of his newsletter.

The Halo Infinite story campaign, released on December 8, proved to be excellent in sales. Last week, she took the first place in the Steam bestseller chart, displacing the Icarus survival simulator from the creator of DayZ. Also in the top ten best-selling games of the week were the shooters Thunder Tier One and GTFO.

On December 4, the official release of Icarus, a survival simulator developed by the studio of Dean Hall, author of DayZ, took place. The game immediately turned out to be the top seller in the weekly Steam chart.

Steam recently broke two of its own records at once — by the number of game releases per month and by the number of simultaneous users of the platform. Moreover, the store managed to update the last record twice during the weekend.

There were a lot of changes in the Steam bestseller chart last week. Farming Simulator 22 has become the new leader of the rating, shifting Battlefield 2042 from the first place. Cyberpunk 2077, Red Dead Redemption 2 and Horizon Zero Dawn also returned to the top ten best-selling games.

Battlefield 2042 and Forza Horizon 5 continue to lead the chart of the best-selling games on Steam. Last week, they again got the entire first half of the rating. Also in the top of the bestsellers was the upcoming Halo Infinite story campaign.

Yesterday, Microsoft, in honor of the 20th anniversary of the Xbox and the Halo franchise, opened access to the free-play beta of the Halo Infinite multiplayer — three weeks earlier than planned. In the first hours after the release of the game, its online on Steam exceeded 270 thousand people.

Last week, Battlefield 2042 climbed to the top of the Steam bestseller chart, beating Forza Horizon 5. Thanks to various publications, the multiplayer shooter from DICE took three lines at once, including the first. But New World for the first time in eight weeks failed to get into the top ten best-selling games.

META Publishing has agreed with Steam to hold the second Pancake Week 2022 Carnival Festival. The company has already opened the acceptance of applications for participants. An important condition is that the developer studio or publisher of the game must be from the CIS countries.The second Carnival Festival will be held from February 28 to March 6, 2022.

Age of Empires IV has lost its lead in the Steam bestseller chart — last week the game dropped to the second line of the rating. Instead, the best-selling title was Forza Horizon 5, which is scheduled for release on November 9.