{"id":73301,"date":"2019-11-26T03:07:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T10:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/destiny-2-nabs-no-1-spot-for-steam-games-in-october-here-are-the-top-20-releases-from-valve\/"},"modified":"2019-11-26T03:07:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T10:07:32","slug":"destiny-2-nabs-no-1-spot-for-steam-games-in-october-here-are-the-top-20-releases-from-valve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/destiny-2-nabs-no-1-spot-for-steam-games-in-october-here-are-the-top-20-releases-from-valve\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Destiny 2\u2019 nabs No. 1 spot for Steam games in October \u2014\u00a0here are the top 20 releases from Valve"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bungie\u2019s Destiny 2: Shadowkeep<\/em>. (Press image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bellevue, Wash.-based Valve Software released the latest revenue figures for its online storefront Steam, tracking the top 20 Steam releases<\/a> for October of this year.<\/p>\n

Rather than tracking pure sales figures, Valve calculates its top 20 in terms of revenue generated during the two weeks following the games\u2019 release.<\/p>\n

By that metric, Bungie\u2019s Destiny 2 <\/em>was the clear winner. This marked the long-running first-person shooter\u2019s PC debut, alongside going free-to-play with the New Light <\/em>program, as well as the release of the Shadowkeep expansion<\/a><\/em>. Bungie, which is also based in Bellevue, has made a point this year of reorganizing the game and recharting its course following its split from former publisher Activision Blizzard<\/a>, and so far, it seems its new direction is paying off. While you can play most of Destiny 2 <\/em>for free, you do have to pay to get access to the game\u2019s most recent expansions.<\/p>\n

According to Valve, Destiny 2 <\/em>on Steam peaked at nearly 300,000 concurrent players, and enjoyed substantial crossover with other titles; nearly 20 percent of those who played other top 20 games in October also gave Destiny 2 <\/em>a shot.<\/p>\n

Other winners in October included Indivisible, <\/em>a years-in-the-making RPG\/platformer from the team behind the cult hit fighting game Skullgirls<\/em>; Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince, <\/em>a new game in the fantasy\/comedy series by Finnish developers Frozenbyte; and Disco Elysium, <\/em>a combat-free surreal narrative RPG that\u2019s quietly snuck onto a lot of fans and journalists\u2019 Game of the Year lists. Grid<\/em>, a reboot of the long-running racing series from English developers Codemasters, managed to score No. 6 on the list despite extremely mixed reviews<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One of the bigger surprises here is the presence of Visual Concepts\u2019s WWE 2K20, <\/em>the latest entry in the wrestling franchise\u2019s video game line, which launched with some truly <\/em>spectacular bugs<\/a> and hasn\u2019t quite managed to crawl out of that hole at time of writing. The fact that it still managed to make some money at launch despite being a leading contender for the most initially-busted video game release of 2019 is testament to the power of branding in the marketplace.<\/p>\n

Notably, two of the entries in the top 20 are Early Access games, where the makers are funding their title\u2019s completion through early sales. This includes Postal 4<\/em>, a somewhat-inexplicable new game in the deliberately-tasteless Postal <\/em>series from Tucson-based studio Running With Scissors, and Chernobylite, <\/em>a first-person survival horror game from Polish studio The Farm 51, formed by veterans of the cult hit FPS Painkiller<\/em>.<\/p>\n

tinyBuild\u2019s asymmetric multiplayer game Secret Neighbor <\/em>snuck onto the list at\u00a0 No. 19. You probably saw the game\u2019s titular Neighbor one way or another if you were at this year\u2019s PAX in Seattle, as it seemed like you couldn\u2019t go two steps in the convention center without seeing someone with a Neighbor mask or plush toy. Upon its release, it appears to have attracted a small but fervent crowd; as per SteamCharts, its player count has barely dropped at all<\/a> since it launched.<\/p>\n

The full top 20 list is as follows:<\/p>\n