Steam Reveals Highest Grossing and Most Played Games of 2018

Alessio Palumbo
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Steam has revealed the highest grossing games released this year. Just like in 2017, they've grouped them loosely into four categories: Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze. You can check the list of games below.

Platinum

  • Rocket League
  • Monster Hunter World
  • Rainbow Six: Siege
  • Far Cry 5
  • The Elder Scrolls Online
  • Civilization VI
  • Grand Theft Auto V
  • Assassin's Creed Odyssey
  • Dota 2
  • Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
  • Warframe
  • PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

Gold

  • Dead by Daylight
  • Kingdom Come: Deliverance
  • Stellaris
  • Path of Exile
  • ARK: Survival Evolved
  • Total War: Warhammer II
  • The Witcher III: Wild Hunt
  • Jurassic World Evolution
  • Divinity Original Sin II
  • Assassin's Creed Origins
  • Cities Skylines
  • Black Desert Online

Silver

  • No Man's Sky
  • Raft
  • Warhammer Vermintide 2
  • War Thunder
  • Euro Truck Simulator 2
  • Frostpunk
  • Final Fantasy XV Windows Edition
  • Fallout 4
  • Ghost Recon Wildlands
  • DRAGON BALL FighterZ
  • Shadow of the Tomb Raider
  • Dying Light
  • SCUM
  • The Forest
  • Team Fortress 2
  • Subnautica

Bronze

  • Arma III
  • The Division
  • World of Warships
  • Hearts of Iron IV
  • Watch Dogs 2
  • Rise of the Tomb Raider
  • Crusader Kings II
  • XCOM 2
  • Factorio
  • Total War: Warhammer
  • SOULCALIBUR VI
  • NBA 2K18
  • Conan Exiles
  • The Crew 2
  • SMITE
  • Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia
  • BATTLETECH
  • Football Manager 2019
  • Slay the Spire
  • Rust
  • Total War: Rome II - Emperor Edition
  • Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet
  • NBA 2K19
  • Planet Coaster
  • For Honor
  • Borderlands 2
  • Civilization V
  • The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
  • Farming Simulator 19
  • Dark Souls III
  • House Flipper
  • Surviving Mars
  • Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire
  • Europa Universalis IV
  • Two Point Hospital
  • Terraria
  • Rimworld
  • Stardew Valley
  • Paladins
  • Garry's Mod
  • Payday 2
  • Middle-earth: Shadow of War
  • Hunt Showdown
  • The Sims 3
  • They Are Billions
  • Bless Online
  • Don't Starve Together
  • Final Fantasy XIV Online
  • Age of Empires II HD
  • Human: Fall Flat
  • NieR:Automata
  • Darkest Dungeon
  • Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom
  • Call of Duty: WWII
  • Sniper Elite 4
  • Deep Rock Galactic
  • theHunter: Call of the Wild
  • Artifact
  • Insurgency: Sandstorm
  • Dark Souls Remastered

Steam also shared other charts this year, though. For instance, the highest grossing games released in 2018, the highest grossing VR games, the highest grossing games that launched out of Steam Early Access this year, and finally the most played games in 2018 as measured by the highest peak of concurrent players.

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About the author: With over two decades of experience in gaming journalism, Alessio Palumbo has led the gaming vertical at Wccftech since August 2015. He started working at a young age for Italian websites like Everyeye.it, Gamestar.it, Nextgame.it, and Multiplayer.it before kickstarting the indie English-language publication Worlds Factory as its founder and Editor in Chief. In the last decade, he has coordinated the overall output of Wccftech's gaming section, managed PR relations, assigned reviews, produced daily news coverage, edited gaming content as needed, and delivered game reviews. Arguably, his trademark content is the long series of exclusive developer interviews that have been cited by Wikipedia and by the biggest news media and gaming publications. His passion for technology also makes him knowledgeable when it comes to gaming hardware and tech. His favorite genres include RPGs, MMORPGs, and action/adventure games.

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