Steam just updated its stats page with Billboard-style top sellers charts
The Steam Top 100 page is no more. That old utilitarian list of Steam's most popular games by concurrent player count has been replaced with a deeper and more attractive set of rankings(opens in new tab). You can still see which games are currently being played by the most people, but now you can also sort games by their daily unique player counts and by how much money they're making.
The new Steam stats page is called «Steam Charts,» which could lead to some confusion, since there's already a helpful website called Steam Charts (www.steamcharts.com(opens in new tab)) that uses the Steam API to provide more comprehensive concurrent player data than Steam itself displays. Steam Charts remains a useful website—I use it all the time—but it'll be harder to distinguish from Valve's official stats page in Google search results. C’est la vie!
The most notable addition to Steam's new Steam Charts page is the Top Selling Games chart. Valve has been sharing monthly sales charts for a while now, but with these weekly charts its journey to Billboard Hot 100(opens in new tab) territory has finally concluded. Like the famous song ranking, Steam's top sellers charts display how many places a game has moved up or down since the previous week's chart. It's easy to imagine talking about a «chart-topping game» or a game that «topped the Steam chart for four weeks»—a more contemporary version of those old NPD game sales reports that go around whenever console warriors are beefing about exclusives.
The top sellers chart is based on all revenue earned through Steam, not just units sold, so free-to-play games are included (provided they're making lots of money through DLC or in-game transactions). Apex Legends is third on the list right now,
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