Valve has shared the top Steam games of 2024 by gross revenue, concurrent player count, and other metrics. Let’s take a closer look at this year’s biggest titles on the platform.
Left: Helldivers 2, Right (top to bottom): Black Myth: Wukong, Marvel Rivals, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
As usual, Valve divided games into four categories based on their performance: Platinum (top 12), Gold, Silver, and Bronze. “When generating each of these lists, we looked at data from January 1st, 2024 through December 15th, 2024,” the company explained in a post on Steam.
Keep in mind that titles in each group are randomly sorted, so we can only look at the top games without knowing which one specifically performed the best.
Top-grossing Steam games of 2024
Below are the top 12 Steam games of 2024 by gross revenue (new releases are in bold):
- Counter-Strike 2
- Elden Ring
- Destiny 2
- Baldur’s Gate 3
- PUBG
- Helldivers 2
- Palworld
- Apex Legends
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
- Black Myth: Wukong
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
- Dota 2
Games in the Gold category include War Thunder, EA Sports FC 25, Naraka Bladepoint, Cyberpunk 2077, Throne and Liberty, Dead by Daylight, and more.
When only looking at titles launched in 2024, Valve took into account “the top ones based on their first two weeks of revenue after releasing.” The top 12 new releases can be seen below:
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
- Path of Exile 2
- Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO
- Black Myth: Wukong
- Dragon’s Dogma 2
- NBA 2K25
- Helldivers 2
- Manor Lords
- Palworld
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
- EA Sports FC 25
Despite only launching in December, Marvel Rivals made it into the Gold group. Other games in the category include Last Epoch, Enshrouded, Gray Zone Warfare, Ghost of Tsushima, Tekken 8, Draon Age: The Veilguard, Hades II, and The First Descendant.
Among “Silver” new releases are titles like Final Fantasy XVI, Age of Mythology Retold, Silent Hill 2, Sons of the Forest, Metaphor: ReFantazio, Frostpunk 2, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, and Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake.
New “Gold” releases of 2024 on Steam
Most played Steam games of 2024
This category includes titles that surpassed 50k peak concurrent users (CCU) during 2024, excluding “player counts attributable to things like giveaways and free weekends.”
There were 10 games that eclipsed 450k CCU. We looked at SteamDB to rank them based on their peak player count in 2024 (new releases are in bold):
- Black Myth: Wukong — 2.4 million CCU
- Palworld — 2.1 million CCU
- Counter-Strike 2 (free-to-play) — 1.7 million CCU
- Dota 2 (free-to-play) — 951.2k CCU
- PUBG (free-to-play) — 808.2k CCU
- Elden Ring — 781.2k CCU (Shadow of the Erdtree launch)
- Path of Exile 2 — 578.5k CCU
- Marvel Rivals (free-to-play) — 480.9k CCU
- Apex Legends (free-to-play) — 470.6k CCU
- Helldivers 2 — 458.7k CCU
Top 10 Steam games of 2024 by peak concurrent players (via SteamDB)
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Valve also highlighted the top played games on Steam Deck (“measured by taking the most popular games per Steam Deck player over the previous year”), including Fallout 4, Hogwarts Legacy, Vampire Survivors, GTA V, Stardew Valley, Dave the Diver, Baldur’s Gate 3, and Balatro.
Full list of top games, including highest-grossing VR titles and most played games for controller users, can be seen on Steam’s Best of 2024 page.