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Industry News January 21

[UPD] Live service games dominate Steam charts, with no single-player or new releases in top 20

The drought of new major releases continues, so seeing evergreen hits at the top of the Steam charts is not surprising. Here are the highest-grossing titles on the platform over the past seven days.

Industry News January 21

Balatro sold another 1.5 million units in last month, crossing 5 million in less than year

Balatro is a rare case of a single-player game that continues to steadily grow its audience without major content updates or DLCs. Here’s some new data on LocalThunk’s deck-building roguelike.