The action role-playing game Elden Ring did not stay in first place on the Steam sales chart, where it remained for three weeks in a row.
Elden Ring. Image source: Steam (Dr. LiVeSeY)
The leader was the portable PC Steam Deck, which last took first place six weeks ago. Elden Ring dropped to second, but Shadow of the Erdtree remained in fourth place, where it has been for three weeks. The role-playing game Baldur’s Gate 3, whose sales increased noticeably during the summer sale, remained in third, and the cooperative hit Chained Together was in fifth (the action game has not left the top 10 since its release – four weeks).
The EA Sports FC 24 football simulator dropped out of the top ten (11th place), and the pre-order action role-playing game Black Myth: Wukong, whose premiere is scheduled for August 20, returned to it (eighth). Also included in the chart was the pre-order of the futuristic shooter Earth Defense Force 6 from Sandlot and D3Publisher (released on July 25) – it ranked 79th.
The shareware shooter The First Descendant from the South Korean Nexon, which soared to the first line of the general chart, lost two positions and became third (online over the past week for the first time dropped below 200 thousand players and continues to fall). PUBG: Battlegrounds took the lead, receiving a major update 30.2 with tactical items, a clan system, a collaboration with Lamborghini and the return of the Fantasy Battle Royale mode. Dota 2 was next, adding 12 lines at once (on July 10, the third act of the “Fallen Crown” story event started).
Only one paid new product made it into the chart – the fast-paced first-person action game Anger Foot from Free Lives and Devolver Digital, the hero of which uses not only weapons, but also kicks. Despite low sales (the game only made it to market) and a modest online presence (peak: 1,080 users), the rating was high – 92% based on 712 reviews.
Another new release – the shareware multiplayer survival simulator in the post-apocalyptic world Once Human from Starry Studio (owned by the Chinese NetEase) – started from eighth place in the overall chart. Despite “mixed” reviews (67% based on 26 thousand reviews), online is growing rapidly (personal record updated on July 14 – 231,668 people). Unprepared for such an influx of players, the developers had to temporarily limit the capacity of the servers and hurry up with the release of patches.
Top 10 by revenue for the period from July 9 to July 16 (in parentheses is the place in the previous week, if the product was present in the chart):
Top 10 by revenue including free-to-play games: