Steam has released their “Best of 2021” lists. The lists brought along many categories as well as the most played and best-selling games in 2021.
Amongst Steam’s Best of 2021 lists Bestsellers, New Releases, Most Played, Out of Early Access, The Best of VR and Controller Friendly categories are included.
Bestsellers
The Bestsellers category introduces players to the top 100 best-selling games of the year by gross revenue. This category places the best-selling games in 2021 in four separate ranks, Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze. You can take a look at the Platinum Best Selling games below:
- Apex Legends
- Battlefield 2042
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
- Dead by Daylight
- Destiny 2
- DOTA 2
- Grand Theft Auto V
- Naraka: Bladepoint
- New World
- PUBG: Battlegrounds
- Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege
- Valheim
New Releases
The New Releases category lists the best-selling new games of the year by gross revenue. Check out the Platinum-rated New Releases below:
- Age of Empires IV
- Back 4 Blood
- Battlefield 2042
- Farming Simulator 22
- Forza Horizon 5
- Halo Infinite
- Mass Effect: Legendary Edition
- Naraka: Bladepoint
- New World
- Outriders
- Resident Evil Village
- Valheim
Most Played
The Most Played category celebrates games that achieved the “highest number of simultaneous players” throughout the year. You can take a look at the games with the highest number of players exceeding 200,000 below:
- Apex Legends
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
- Cyberpunk 2077
- DOTA 2
- Grand Theft Auto V
- Halo Infinite
- New World
- PUBG: Battlegrounds
- Rust
- Valheim
Out of Early Access
The Early Access Released category rewards the games that have fully exited Early Access and generated the most gross revenue in 2021. You can take a look at the Platinum-rated Early Access games below:
- Breathedge
- Chernobylite
- Draw & Guess
- Endzone: A World Apart
- Hell Let Loose
- GTFO
- Medieval Dynasty
- Skul: The Hero Slayer
- Solasta: Crown of the Magister
- Subnautica: Below Zero
- Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
- Wildermyth
The Best of VR
The Best in VR category brings together the top-grossing and best-selling VR exclusive games in 2021. Check out the Platinum-rated Best of VR games below:
- Arizona Sunshine
- Beat Saber
- Blade & Sorcery
- Boneworks
- Hal-Life: Alyx
- Hot Dogs, Horseshoes, & Hand Grenades
- Into the Radius
- Pavlov
- super hot VR
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR
- The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners
- VR Kanojo
Controller Friendly
Lastly, there is the Controller Friendly category, which ranks the year’s best-selling games by the number of daily active players played with the controller in 2021. Check out the Platinum-rated Controller Friendly games below:
- Apex Legends
- Cyberpunk 2077
- eFootball 2022
- FIFA 21
- FIFA 22
- Forza Horizon 5
- Grand Theft Auto V
- Guilty Gear -Strive-
- Halo Infinite
- Monster Hunter: World
- Tales of Arise
- The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
