Starfield, Baldur's gate 3, and Hogwarts Legacy Lead Steam's End Of Year Stats

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While most of the major gaming companies released player-specific wrap-up stats earlier this month, today Valve decided to share some platform-wide statistics, highlighting the most played Steam games of the year. To avoid divulging specifics, the entries are not ranked individually but by category. The top twelve games are in the platinum section, the next 13 are in the gold section, the next 25 are in the silver section, and the last 50 are in bronze. Within those categories, however, entries are «randomly sorted,» so it's unclear which specific game came out at the top of the heap in any specific category.

Still, it's interesting data. Hogwarts Legacy, Baldur's Gate 3, Starfield, and Sons of the Forest each make the platinum category of almost every list they qualify for. Baldur's Gate 3 nearly completes a full sweep, but it doesn't quite make the cut for the controller platinum category, and there isn't a VR version. It's also interesting to see The Witcher 3, a nearly nine-year-old game, reach the top of the Steam Deck charts, but maybe not as impressive as Half-Life, released in 1998, which has a spot on that same list.

Here are the categories, their sorting criteria, and the games that made the top 12.

Description: These are the best-selling games on Steam based on total gross revenue earned in 2023.

Description: These are the best-selling releases of 2023. This list is created by looking at every game released in 2023, then selecting the top ones based on their first two weeks of revenue after launching.

Description: These are the most-played games of 2023, showcasing all games that eclipsed 40,000 peak players during 2023. Games are grouped by the number of peak concurrent player counts that they reached. We've