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Individuals like to purchase video games from and play video games in Steam, however anybody serious about actually poking across the website (like us, it’s our job) has two issues they wish to know: which video games are promoting probably the most copies, and which video games are being performed probably the most.
Valve’s new “Steam Charts” web page places all that within the one place, and makes the entire course of so much nicer when you’re at it. A press release from the corporate says:
At the moment we’re launching Steam Charts, a brand new part of Steam that’s devoted to exhibiting the most-played and top-selling video games on Steam. Together with numbers in actual time.
The Steam Charts web page replaces Steam Stats as a one-stop-overview of what’s widespread on Steam, whether or not it’s in real-time, by week, and even by month. Steam Charts additionally gathers numbers in additional element to permit for a extra full image of which video games gamers are enthusiastic about.
It’s mainly a single web page containing all of the popularity-related knowledge you’d wish to know (except for precise variety of models offered, which lol as if Valve is ever going to launch that), with the web page main with how many individuals are at present on-line.
It then reveals the 5 best-selling video games and 5 most-played video games, with the flexibility to shortly broaden these charts to show the highest 100 in each fields. Then there are weekly top-sellers, high new releases and fast hyperlinks to different helpful Steam-related knowledge pages like Valve’s {hardware} survey outcomes—all the time fascinating for his or her breakdown of the GPU market, if nothing else—and obtain stats.
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To be clear, little or no of that is new, although I believe the “reside” gross sales charts have some welcome additions like what number of weeks the sport has been within the charts, and what number of locations it has moved up or down over the past week. General, that is only a welcome refresh of the best way the information is offered.
Knowledge nerds can test it out right here.
