Just a few days before the end of the year, Steam shared a list of the best-selling games on the platform in 2023. Notably, there were many interesting surprises in this ranking. The most prominent is probably in the first position when it was a name that very few people expected, as well as the somewhat modest ranking of Baldur’s Gate 3 – the game being voted as the best of the year.
Accordingly, in first place is Sons of the Forest – a survival FPS game and the sequel to the previous The Forest series. Perhaps few people expected that this would be the best-selling game of the year on Steam, surpassing a series of blockbusters such as Hogwarts Legacy or Baldur’s Gate 3. It cannot be denied that this survival game itself is also attractive. own, especially with the countless mods and companion systems added. But with the price. In addition, the relatively cheap price, only about $20, is also a big advantage for Sons of the Forest when competing with other blockbusters and AAA blockbusters priced at $60-70.
Even more surprising is that Starfield is ranked second on this ranking. Perhaps if we go back in time to 2 months ago, no one would be too surprised that at that time, Starfield was still taking the gaming world by storm thanks to its unique and new playing style. Currently, the number of players has decreased, the rating on Steam has fallen to “Mostly negative”, Starfield is becoming the game that has received the most complaints in recent days. But based on Steam’s rankings, it still ranked second among the best-selling games last year.
Baldur’s Gate 3 – the best game of 2023 is only ranked 3rd in this chart. Even though the number of online players is always large, remaining at about 110,000, in reality, Baldur’s Gate 3 does not really sell as well as other colleagues. Also according to Steam’s ranking, ranked 4th, 5th and 6th are names such as Apex Legends, Lost Ark as well as Hogwarts Legacy respectively.
