Baldur’s Gate 3, Hogwarts Legacy, Starfield, Lethal Company Led a Record Year for PC Gaming

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2023 was a big year for gaming in general, but it seems it was a particularly strong year for PC Gaming in specific. According to a report from VG Insights, which uses data from Steam and other sources to estimate sales with a fairly high level of accuracy, the global PC gaming market grew to $9 billion in 2023, an 18 percent year-on-year increase over 2022. This followed several years of steady yet slower growth.

Looking at individual games, Baldur’s Gate 3 was the easy frontrunner in terms of both units sold and revenue generated, followed by Hogwarts Legacy. In third place in terms of units sold was the breakout indie co-op horror hit Lethal Company, while Starfield was #3 in terms of revenue generated. In general, looking at the top lists, you see a focus on traditional single-player games and straightforward multiplayer titles. There are not a lot of live service or microtransaction-supported titles on the lists as the popularity of those types of games seems to be falling off.

Here are the overall top PC games of 2023 by unit sales:

1 - Baldur's Gate 3

2 - Hogwarts Legacy

3 - Lethal Company

4 - Overwatch 2

5 - Sons Of The Forest

6 - Starfield

7 - BattleBit Remastered

8 - Resident Evil 4

9 - The Finals

10 - Armored Core VI Fires of Rubicon

And here are the top games in terms of revenue generated:

1 - Baldur's Gate 3

2 - Hogwarts Legacy

3 - Starfield

4 - Resident Evil 4

5 - Sons Of The Forest

6 - Armored Core VI Fires of Rubicon

7 - EA Sports FC 24

8 - Star Wars Jedi: Survivor

9 - Lethal Company

10 - Cities: Skylines II

Overall, there were nearly 14,000 games released on Steam in 2023, but despite that number, it’s increasingly a “winners take all” market, with the top 10 Steam games making up 61