Steam revealed most popular and profitable games and releases of 2024

The end of the year is traditionally a time for summaries. The most recent instance of this was Valve Corporation releasing a list of 2024's top hits on the Steam platform.

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The lists were arranged according to the revenues obtained. The specific financial results weren't disclosed. The games were only grouped into three categories: platinum (positions 1-12), gold (13 - 24), silver (25 - 50), and bronze (51 - 100). In each of them, the order of the titles is random.

Best earning games on Steam in 2024

Platinum

1. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
2. Black Myth: Wukong
3. Destiny 2
4. Counter-Strike 2
5. Palworld
6. Helldivers 2
7. Dota 2
8. Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
9. Elden Ring
10. Apex Legends
11. Baldur's Gate 3
12. PUBG: Battlegrounds

It's worth noting that in the case of Destiny 2 and Elden Ring, the high positions of these games are due to the releases of major expansions (respectively The Final Shape and Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree).

Gold

1. DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO
2. Naraka: Bladepoint
3. Dead by Daylight
4. The First Descendant
5. Warframe
6. Enshrouded
7. Throne and Liberty
8. Cyberpunk 2077
9. Path of Exile 2
10. War Thunder
11. EA SPORTS FC 25
12. EA Sports FC 24

Silver

1. Manor Lords
2. FINAL FANTASY XIV Online
3. Fallout 76
4. Granblue Fantasy: Relink
5. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III
6. Lethal Company
7. TEKKEN 8
8. Forza Horizon 4
9. Forza Horizon 5
10. The Elder Scrolls Online
11. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
12. Grand Theft Auto V
13. Diablo IV
14. Call of Duty: Warzone
15. Lost Ark
16. Dragon's Dogma 2
17. Rust
18. Red Dead Redemption 2
19. Gray Zone Warfare
20. Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel
21. S. T. A. L. K. E. R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
22. Last Epoch
23. Hogwarts Legacy
24. Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT
25. Once Human
26. Stardew Valley

Bronze

1. Wallpaper Engine
2. Project Zomboid
3. Battlefield 2042
4. Hearts of Iron IV
5. Satisfactory
6. World of Warships
7. Sid Meier's Civilization VI
8. Fallout 4
9. CRUSADER KINGS III
10. V Rising
11. Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition
12. No Man's Sky
13. American Truck Simulator
14. Ready or Not
15. Factorio
16. Persona 3 Reload
17. NBA 2K25
18. ARK: Survival Ascended
19. Silent Hill 2
20. Farming Simulator 25
21. Euro Truck Simulator 2
22. Balatro
23. The Sims 4
24. Liar's Bar
25. Stellaris
26. Black Desert
27. Sea of Thieves
28. Bodycam
29. Street Fighter 6
30. THE FINALS
31. Dragon Age: The Veilguard
32. Total War: WARHAMMER III
33. Overwatch 2
34. Hunt: Showdown 1896
35. Monster Hunter Wilds (pre-sale)
36. Metaphor: ReFantazio
37. Phasmophobia
38. Content Warning
39. Supermarket Simulator
40. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition
41. It Takes Two
42. TCG Card Shop Simulator
43. Sons Of The Forest
44. Hades II
45. Chained Together
46. Path of Exile
47. RimWorld
48. Monster Hunter: World
49. Team Fortress 2

Biggest releases of 2024, according to gross income

Platinum

1. Palworld
2. Helldivers 2
3. S. T. A. L. K. E. R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
4. Dragon's Dogma 2
5. EA SPORTS FC 25
6. NBA 2K25
7. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
8. Black Myth: Wukong
9. DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO
10. Path of Exile 2
11. Manor Lords
12. Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2

Most frequently played games of 2024, according to the highest number of concurrent players

In this case, thanks to SteamDB, we were able to determine the ranking of the most popular games of this year ourselves.

Most popular games on Steam Deck

Platinum

1. Fallout 4
2. Hogwarts Legacy
3. Stardew Valley
4. Grand Theft Auto V
5. Dave the Diver
6. Vampire Survivors
7. Hades
8. Elden Ring
9. Cyberpunk 2077
10. Baldur's Gate 3
11. Balatro
12. Palworld

Most popular games of the year played on a controller

Platinum

1. Palworld
2. Grand Theft Auto V
3. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
4. Forza Horizon 5
5. Elden Ring
6. Apex Legends
7. Forza Horizon 4
8. Euro Truck Simulator 2
9. Monster Hunter: World
10. EA Sports FC 24
11. Black Myth: Wukong
12. It Takes Two

This year's best applications available only on VR according to gross revenue

Platinum

1. BONELAB
2. VTOL VR
3. Arizona Sunshine 2
4. Blade and Sorcery
5. Beat Saber
6. Fallout 4 VR
7. Ghosts of Tabor
8. Half-Life: Alyx
9. Into the Radius 2
10. Gorilla Tag
11. Pavlov
12. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR

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