![]() ![]() ![]() But sometimes it's not about how much you're loved, but how much you can sell No Man's Sky is a Platinum game, after all, and it's probably the least-approved game on the list, at 31%.The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Knight Online, though, is a game I wouldn't have thought to make the list, especially with its 45% positive rating. ![]() Then again, being a Valve game, it undoubtedly receives 100% of its income from Steam, unlike games like Warframe or Path of Exile, which also have individual client downloads. Despite its age, it hasn't been totally eclipsed by newer hero shooter games. I'm a little surprised to see Team Fortress 2 still maintaining such a high placement on the list. Also, both incarnations of the formerly free-to-play H1Z1 made the list - King of the Kill was Gold, while Just Survive was Bronze. It should also be noted that Battlerite - currently in paid early access but scheduled for a F2P launch in 2017 - cracked the Bronze tier. Out of the 100 games, eight were fully free-to-play:īronze: Knight Online, Tree of Savior, Path of Exile Though games within each category aren't sorted, and this only counts revenue gained via Steam, these groupings at least give us a little solid info to grade games' successes this past year. Over the weekend, it released a list of the top 100 highest-grossing games on the platform for 2016, sorted into four descending categories: Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Bronze. Without numbers to back those assertions up, it's all speculative and open to interpretation.įortunately, for the factual-minded among us, Valve did a little bit of legwork to give us some accurate information regarding how well games performed on Steam in 2016. But "good" is relative, and we can all claim that Game X did well or Game Y did poorly or that Game Z did better than both of them. ![]() Despite some missteps - No Man's Sky, anyone? - 2016 was a pretty good year for gaming. ![]()
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