The ambiguous reaction of the audience to the release of Biomutant did not prevent the title from capturing the first two lines in the weekly list of the best-selling Steam games. The previous leader of Days Gone went to the fifth place.

Mass Effect Legendary Edition failed to hold a leading position in the list of the best-selling Steam games in the second week of sales. After the release of the PC version of Days Gone, the sci-fi trilogy dropped to second place.

Released on Friday, May 14, Mass Effect Legendary Edition soared to the top of the Steam bestseller chart. Among other novelties in the top ten are the BIOMUTANT being prepared for release and the Endwalker add—on for FINAL FANTASY XIV, for which a pre-order has recently opened.

In 2019, immediately after the launch of the Epic Games Store, the owners of the store developed two scenarios for its development: aggressive and cautious. In an optimistic scenario, Epic Games hoped to get 50% of the PC market (but it depended on whether Steam would react to the company’s actions). In the pessimistic — to keep only 8% of the PC market.

Indie studio Wolfire Games, known for the action game about anthropomorphic animals Overgrowth, initiated an antitrust class action lawsuit against Valve. The reason was the dominant position of the company in the PC market. The creators of Steam are accused of the fact that the high commission of the store allegedly forces publishers to raise prices and invest less money in development.Overgrowth

Developers are beginning to actively use the Playtest function on Steam. Chinese studio 24 Entertainment has launched an open beta of its debut game Naraka: Bladepoint using it. The Battle Royale with elements of Parkour has already been included in the list of the most popular Steam games, and its peak online exceeded 140 thousand people.24 Entertainment announced the launch of the Naraka: Bladepoint beta on April 23.

There are a lot of changes in the Steam chart this week. The remaster NieR Replicant got into the top 10 twice at once. The game also became the leader of the chart, shifting It Takes Two from the first place. Titanfall 2 also returned to the top ten.NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139…

Valve has announced the official release of two new features on Steam at once. Playtest and simplified game search came out of beta. We share details about each of them.

Indie game marketing specialist Logan Williams decided to find out if there was a “race of concessions” on Steam in 2015-2020. In other words, did the developers reduce the prices of new games because of competition with each other? We share the results.

Developers often make demos for Steam short in order to give players only a basic idea of the project and mechanics. However, some almost do not limit users by time, allowing them to play trial versions for hours. Excellent examples are the demos of Loop Hero and The Riftbreaker, which showed the effectiveness of such a strategy and interested the hardcore audience even before the release.Loop Hero

The leader of the last two weeks Outriders could not hold positions in the weekly list of the best—selling Steam games – the title went to the fifth line of the rating. This time the first place was taken by the cooperative It Takes Two. Also in the top 10 was the addition Stellaris: Nemesis, released four days ago.

Last week’s best-selling games on Steam were Outriders and It Takes Two again. But Cyberpunk 2077 and Evil Genius 2: World Domination did not enter the chart this time.

Important news for developers and publishers on Steam. Now the UTM analytics menu has appeared in the Valve store, with which you can track advertising campaigns on the game page. Tags will allow you not only to find out the sources of traffic, but also to track the number of purchases and additions to vishlists.The new service is currently in open beta testing mode and is available on all accounts with permission to view marketing…

Valheim dominated the list of the best-selling Steam games for two months. However, now the first line was taken by the Polish action Outriders, showing excellent online at the start. Also in the top ten is Cyberpunk 2077, for which a major patch has recently been released.According to the results of the week that ended on April 4, Valheim dropped immediately to fourth place.

Yesterday, the release of the cooperative action Outriders from the studio People Can Fly took place. The online project instantly exceeded 100 thousand people. This is the best start among all Square Enix games released on Steam.Already three hours after the release, 111,953 people were playing Outriders at the same time, according to SteamDB.

Pancake Week, a festival-sale of games by Eastern European developers, was held on Steam from March 8 to 14. It was initiated and organized by Meta Publishing. We talked with Ilya Salamatov and Ilya Grabelnikov, top managers of the publishing house, about how the sale was being prepared and held.

The Russian bagel Loop Hero has performed well in sales. The game has sold over 500 thousand copies sold in just a week since its release.

Loop Hero is a bagel with indirect control from the Russian indie studio Four Quarters and publisher Devolver Digital. In just a day after the release, more than 150 thousand people played the game, and its peak online was almost 40 thousand.

The Sinking City scandal continues. The game was again withdrawn from sale on Steam. It is unknown whether Frogwares studio has anything to do with this, but Valve had to delete this version of the project after receiving a DMCA complaint.Now the link to The Sinking City page on Steam automatically redirects users to the main page of the store.