[News] Steam shared its top 100 video games of 2020

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I always enjoy winding down the year with a look at Steam's list of best-selling games.

Besides high-profile new releases like Cyberpunk 2077 and surprise indie hits like Phasmophobia, 2020 was another year of gaming dominated by old flames that we just can't seem to break away from.

These were the "top 100 games as measured by gross revenue" on Steam in 2020:

Platinum

Among Us
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Cyberpunk 2077
Destiny 2
Doom Eternal
Dota 2
Fall Guy: Ultimate Knockout
Grand Theft Auto V
Monster Hunter: World
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
Rainbow Six Siege
Red Dead Redemption II
Gold

Ark: Survival Evolved
Baldur's Gate 3
Borderlands 3
Crusader Kings III
Dead by Daylight
Halo: The Master Chief Collection
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
Phasmophobia
Sea of Thieves
Sid Meier's Civilization VI
The Elder Scrolls Online
Warframe
Silver

Assassin's Creed Odyssey
Black Desert Online
Cities: Skylines
Euro Truck Simulator 2
Final Fantasy XIV Online
Hades
Microsoft Flight Simulator
Path of Exile
Planet Zoo
Raft
Rust
Stellaris
Team Fortress 2
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Total War: Warhammer II
War Thunder
Bronze

Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition
American Truck Simulator
Apex Legends
Arma 3
Call of Duty: Black Ops III
Command & Conquer Remastered Collection
Conan Exiles
Dark Souls III
DayZ
Death Stranding
Deep Rock Galactic
Divinity: Original Sin 2
Don't Starve Together
Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot
Dying Light
Europa Universalis IV
Fallout 4
Fallout 76
Far Cry 5
Farming Simulator 19
FIFA 21
Football Manager 2021
Grounded
GTFO
Half-Life: Alyx
Hearts of Iron IV
Horizon Zero Dawn
Human: Fall Flat
Hunt: Showdown
Lords Mobile
Marvel's Avengers
Metro Exodus
NBA 2K20
NBA 2K21
No Man's Sky
Ori and the Will of the Wisps
Persona 4 Golden
Pummel Party
Remnant: From the Ashes
Resident Evil 3
RimWorld
Risk of Rain 2
Satisfactory
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
Smite
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
Star Wars: Squadrons
Stardew Valley
Tabletop Simulator
Temtem
Terraria
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
The Forest
The Hunter: Call of the Wild
The Sims 4
Total War: Three Kingdoms
Wallpaper Engine
Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem
World of Warships
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links
I'm also fascinated by Steam's most-played section – the games with the highest peak concurrent players in 2020. Cyberpunk and Among Us are represented on the over-200,000-players-at-once list as you might expect, but so is Life is Strange 2. I'm genuinely surprised to see that name show up.

Another interesting tidbit via Daniel Ahmad: a ton of us set aside time during the holidays for some (okay more than "some") PC gaming. This year, Steam had 23 million peak concurrent users on Christmas day – a notable step up from 2019 (15.8 million users), 2018 (15.3M), and 2017 (16.2M).

If you're curious, Steam also has a spotlight on new releases, Early Access grads, the best of VR, and controller games – "the year's top controller games as measured by daily active controller players."