Hogwarts Legacy is now number 1, and 2, and 3, and 4 on Steam

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The new Harry Potter game Hogwarts Legacy is certainly proving popular, currently occupying the entire top four of the Steam sales chart, just above Valve’s own Steam Deck. Hogwarts Legacy has also broken various Twitch records, as would-be Gryffindors, Slytherins, Hufflepuffs, and Ravenclaws arrive at the school of witchcraft and wizardry, and begin to explore the sweeping Avalanche RPG game.

It’s a somewhat unusual Steam top five this week – you might be wondering how Hogwarts Legacy can occupy four slots despite being, well, only one game. Nevertheless, the Hogwarts Legacy Deluxe Edition sits firmly at number one, with the standard version at numbers two and three, and the Deluxe Edition again at number four. Just under that, down from number two last week, is Valve’s Steam Deck. I guess a lot of people are busy searching for those Hogwarts Legacy Demiguise Statue and Moon locations.

It all comes down to stock keeping units, or SKUs. When games are listed and sold on Steam, they’re assigned unique reference numbers – almost like barcodes – to differentiate them from other products. The early access versions of Hogwarts Deluxe Edition and the standard editions have two separate SKUs, as do the full, global release day editions.

So, because you have four different editions of Hogwarts Legacy – early access Deluxe, early access standard; launch day Deluxe, launch day standard – you get four different entries on Steam, ultimately reflected in sales data on Steam DB. With so many people logging in and grinding hours, you might want the Hogwarts Legacy max level cap explained, so you know exactly where all that playtime is leading.

It comes as Hogwarts Legacy sets a streaming record, overtaking Cyberpunk 2077 as the