Weekly Steam chart: devastating reviews did not prevent the cooperative shooter Earth Defense Force 6 from starting in the top 5

SteamDB has published a list of games that generated the most revenue on Steam between July 23 and July 30.

Earth Defense Force 6. Image source: Steam

The main new product of the week is the cooperative shooter about the fight against alien invaders Earth Defense Force 6 from Sandlot and D3Publisher, released in the West almost two years after the Japanese premiere. The game soared to fourth place, despite devastating reviews. At the start, the ratings were “extremely negative” (17% based on approximately 300), and now the rating is 52% (the number of reviews has increased to 3.2 thousand). At its peak, the shooter attracted 18,641 people.

The most common complaint was the connection to the Epic Games Store – when you launch the game, the services of a third-party store are automatically installed, without an account in which you cannot access the multiplayer (which the developers did not warn about). The publisher later apologized to customers, but the demand remained in force. In addition to this feature, users are dissatisfied with the lack of regional prices, outdated graphics and technical problems, including slow loading times. In terms of gameplay, the shooter is mostly praised – many put it above Helldivers 2.

Other events on the chart:

• Steam Deck remains the leader for the third week in a row;
• Call of Duty HQ immediately added 17 positions and became third – the surge in sales is explained by the start of the fifth season in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3;
• Space adventure No Man’s Sky, which returned to the top 100 last week, dropped from fourth place to fifth;
• The cooperative action game Chained Together returned to the top ten (seventh place);
• The second among the new products was Kingdom Rush 5: Alliance TD – a strategy in the tower defense genre from Ironhide Game Studio started in 14th position with “very positive” reviews (84% based on 2.8 thousand) and an online peak of 21,133 user;

• The third best release (17th place) is VR shooter Into the Radius 2 from CM Games (early access). Rating based on 1.2 thousand reviews – 75%, personal online record – 1935 players;

• Sports simulator F1 Manager 2024 from Frontier Developments debuted in 25th place with “mixed” reviews (63% based on 856), and reached 12,066 users online. Players note an almost complete lack of innovations and technical problems carried over from the previous part;

• Also among the new games in the chart were the “sandbox” 7 Days to Die from The Fun Pimps, which came out of early access ten years later (41st place), updating its own online record (125,419 users), and two additions – Home Invasion to the tactical the shooter Ready or Not (24th place) and Lovestruck for the life simulator The Sims 4 (46th);
• Post-apocalyptic real-time strategy Cataclismo from Digital Sun (authors of Moonlighter), new last week (early access), entered the chart at number 21. Reviews – “very positive” (94% based on 1.1 thousand), maximum online – 3152 people.

Top 10 by revenue (in brackets – place in the previous week, if the product was on the chart):

Steam Deck (5);

Ring of Fire (2);

Call of Duty HQ (20);

Earth Defense Force 6 (15; new);

No Man’s Sky (4);

Dead by Daylight (3);

Chained Together (11);

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 – Black Sector, Season 5 (new);

Black Myth: Wukong (9; pre-order);

Red Dead Redemption 2 (6).

Top 10 by revenue including free-to-play games:

Counter-Strike 2 (1, shareware);

PUBG: Battlegrounds (2, free-to-play);

Steam Deck (5);

The First Descendant (3, shareware);

Dota 2 (4; shareware);

The Ring of Fire (6);

Naraka: Bladepoint (12, shareware);

Call of Duty HQ (32);

Apex Legends (14, free-to-play);

Once Human (7, shareware).