Weekly Steam chart: Age of Mythology: Retold broke into the top 10 before the official release, but lost to a new product with “red” reviews

SteamDB has published a list of games that brought in the most revenue on Steam between August 27 and September 3. The top ten includes three new titles, including a re-release of the classic real-time strategy Age of Mythology.

Age of Mythology: Retold. Image Source: Steam

The official release of Age of Mythology: Retold will take place on September 4, but access to the game opened for buyers of the premium edition on August 28. The latter, according to PlayTracker, numbered more than 100 thousand. The new version took ninth place and collected almost 3.5 thousand reviews, based on which its rating is 92%.

The Seekers of the Storm add-on to the roguelike shooter Risk of Rain 2 launched three lines higher, thanks to which the main game soared to fourth position and updated the personal online record (75,406 users). However, buyers were disappointed: the DLC had “mostly negative” reviews (20% based on 7.6 thousand ratings). First of all, gamers are dissatisfied with serious technical problems, which they blame on the new priorities of the authors: recently Hopoo Games announced that part of the team was joining Valve and “freezing” the next project.

In eighth place, the slasher Gundam Breaker 4 debuted – “the dawn of a new era” of the series from Crafts & Meister and Bandai Namco. Dynamic combat with a new dual weapon system and deep customization earned it “very positive” reviews (80% based on 1.4 thousand reviews). At its peak, the number of concurrent users reached 27,110.

Other events on the chart:

• For the fourth week in a row, the leader remains the role-playing action game Black Myth: Wukong;
• In addition to Risk of Rain 2, the action role-playing game Hogwarts Legacy (seventh place), which has a 70 percent discount until the evening of September 5, and the asymmetric horror Dead by Daylight (tenth), for which a paid Castlevania chapter was released, returned to the top 10;
• The third best new release was the role-playing game Visions of Mana from Square Enix (13th place). The first part of the main series in 18 years received 568 reviews, based on which its rating was 83%, and attracted 6,976 people at the peak at the same time;

• Also among the new releases, the cooperative survival simulator The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria from Free Range Games – a former Epic Games Store exclusive (17th place), MOBA action Smite 2 from Titan Forge Games, to the closed alpha test of which you can now join by purchasing the Founder’s Edition (20th), the Castlevania Dominus Collection with games previously released only on the Nintendo DS (30th), the action platformer about an armed squirrel Squirrel with a Gun from Dee Dee Creations (31 -e), city-planning simulator Memoriapolis from 5PM Studio (43rd), inventory management simulator Megaloot from axilirate (54th), open-world racing CarX Street from CarX Technologies (67th) and cinematic horror The Casting of Frank Stone from Supermassive Games (73rd);

• The peak online peak for Valve’s shooter Deadlock, available only by invitation from closed test participants, has grown to 171,490 users.

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

Black Myth: Wukong (1);

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (4);

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 (3, pre-order);

Risk of Rain 2;

Steam Deck (2);

Risk of Rain 2: Seekers of the Storm (новинка);

Hogwarts Legacy;

Gundam Breaker 4 (31, new);

Age of Mythology: Retold (41, предзаказ);

Dead by Daylight (16).

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

Black Myth: Wukong (1);

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (8);

Counter-Strike 2 (2, shareware);

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 (7);

PUBG: Battlegrounds (3, free-to-play);

Risk of Rain 2;

Steam Deck (5);

Risk of Rain 2: Seekers of the Storm;

Hogwarts Legacy;

Gundam Breaker 4 (43).