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SteamSpy - Approximate LTD sales for every game on Steam (Updated Daily)
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Ah that makes sense.
MisterShine
Member
This is just sad =(
Dead State wasn't stellar or anything but it deserved a better fate than this.
"We do not talk about Breath of Death VII"
Some more interesting stuff.
Don't Starve was at a million sales by the end of 2013. http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/...n_a_million_copies_of_Dont_Starve_in_2013.php
The game is now at 2,464,405 ± 89,340
Also the don't starve together beta is at 1,292,788 ± 64,875.
I think it is safe to assume a decent amount of the growth is from people interested in the co-op beta. The only way to get the beta is to also buy the frontier pack which includes the original game, or to be given a copy by someone who owned the previous game and bought into it at 75% off for two copies.
Borderlands 2 is at 4,814,464 ± 124,217
The game was said to have crossed 12 million recently across all platforms, which means pc seems to be on par with individual console sales.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/03/25/borderlands-2-sales-pass-the-12-million-mark
Also Borderlands 1 is at 2,236,567 ± 85,153 meaning the franchise has grown quite a bit on pc(probably in part due to the better pc specific features/porting), however The Pre-sequel is at 744,953 ± 49,307. So I guess people mostly care about the mainline series, were maybe experiencing a bit of franchise fatigue, or it just because it hasn't been out for nearly as long.
Skyrim was at 20 million across all platforms a little over a year ago.
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-sells-20-million-copies/1100-6417363/
It is now 8,264,460 ± 161,481 just on pc. That is pretty impressive, it would be cool to see an updated total across all platforms.
Its predecessors weren't released on Steam until many years after their initial releases, but still have pretty impressive numbers.
Oblivion is at 1,353,375 ± 66,369
Morrowind
is at 826,019 ± 51,911
Terraria is at 5,711,309 ± 135,020. Pretty insane for an indie game.
Don't Starve was at a million sales by the end of 2013. http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/...n_a_million_copies_of_Dont_Starve_in_2013.php
The game is now at 2,464,405 ± 89,340
Also the don't starve together beta is at 1,292,788 ± 64,875.
I think it is safe to assume a decent amount of the growth is from people interested in the co-op beta. The only way to get the beta is to also buy the frontier pack which includes the original game, or to be given a copy by someone who owned the previous game and bought into it at 75% off for two copies.
Borderlands 2 is at 4,814,464 ± 124,217
The game was said to have crossed 12 million recently across all platforms, which means pc seems to be on par with individual console sales.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/03/25/borderlands-2-sales-pass-the-12-million-mark
Also Borderlands 1 is at 2,236,567 ± 85,153 meaning the franchise has grown quite a bit on pc(probably in part due to the better pc specific features/porting), however The Pre-sequel is at 744,953 ± 49,307. So I guess people mostly care about the mainline series, were maybe experiencing a bit of franchise fatigue, or it just because it hasn't been out for nearly as long.
Skyrim was at 20 million across all platforms a little over a year ago.
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-sells-20-million-copies/1100-6417363/
It is now 8,264,460 ± 161,481 just on pc. That is pretty impressive, it would be cool to see an updated total across all platforms.
Its predecessors weren't released on Steam until many years after their initial releases, but still have pretty impressive numbers.
Oblivion is at 1,353,375 ± 66,369
Morrowind
aka the best one
Terraria is at 5,711,309 ± 135,020. Pretty insane for an indie game.
Yeah. I haven't played too far in to it, but what I have played I've enjoyed.
It really was released quietly with no fanfare. Even stuff like NEO Scavenger is 107,519 ± 18,758
You could get NEO Scavenger for $1 in a bundle, though.
If I remember correctly, Borderlands 2 RU was once a separate purchase, but then because of much complaining because of the region lock on the online, they granted the worldwide version to every russian purchaser. So the 388,263 figure works as the Russian part inside of the 4,814,464 figure.
OH! Nevermind then
jono51
Banned
I backed it but haven't played it yet. From what I remember of the launch though, there was some big reddit drama over a steam review being blocked or something. All the reviews on the front page are negative with huge amounts of helpful/not helpful votes compared to what the actual game sold (and its mostly positive overall review). e.g. As you mention NEO Scavenger: it only has a couple of hundred helpful/not helpful votes at most on its front page reviews whilst Dead State's are all in the high hundreds. Wouldn't surprise me if that took the wind out of it.
spons
Gold Member
Two Worlds II 515,409 ± 41,033
These sales are actually pretty good considering this game is so under the radar. Also, more people got the sequel than the original game on steam.
Two Worlds: Epic Edition 436,049 ± 37,749
The bundle with both is sometimes on sale on seemingly random days though. Just got mine for next to nothing (4 bucks if I recall correctly).
These sales are actually pretty good considering this game is so under the radar. Also, more people got the sequel than the original game on steam.
Two Worlds: Epic Edition 436,049 ± 37,749
The bundle with both is sometimes on sale on seemingly random days though. Just got mine for next to nothing (4 bucks if I recall correctly).
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Ooooooh I love sales date. Curious how accurate this'll turn out.l
The irony being if Capcom had released a PC version initially we would have likely seen a sequel by now.
Cult classic games with positive word of mouth continue selling in droves long past the point where console sales are being cannibalized by the used markets.
Seems to be just about spot on with official numbers in many cases.
Just a quick note on my own personal game...the sales data I have and the owners data on the site is off by about ~20k, which is the margin of error that was given. So that's pretty accurate.
The weekly new owners thing is WILDLY inaccurate though. Not even close for my game. (Edit: actually those are very accurate, forgot about the Steam activations via Humble.)
Awesome site though!
Awesome site though!
MDSLKTR
Member
It wasn't discounted properly yet, give it time. Double bear said it was what they expected and they're on to their next game now
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Talos Principle 100.000 at best makes me a very sad Fantastapotamus. I will not sing twice today.
DayZ's numbers seem to be pretty much spot on.
3,085,626 +/- 100,000
3,040,754 showing on the site
http://dayz.com/game
3,085,626 +/- 100,000
3,040,754 showing on the site
http://dayz.com/game
Crimsonclaw111
Member
I'm dying to see The Evil Within's and both Metal Gear games' numbers.
People mainly complained about it because 2K thought that Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia and maybe few other countries were part of Russia.
What do you mean? The numbers are there.
Crimsonclaw111
Member
Really? I was typing them in but no results showed up. Maybe I was doing it wrong.
edit: I was doing it from the home page, maybe that's why.
Sportbilly
Member
Use the Search box at the top right, the one above the top 100 chart only searches for games on the chart.
Nice site, surely this can't be right though? 23 million for Men at War??
Evil Within - 247,464
Metal Gear Rising - 424,956
MGS V - Ground Zeroes - 249,171
Interesting thing with GZ is that, across the 4 consoles combined, it sold 1 million in a quarter of a year. Considering GZ on PC has been out for a quarter of a year now, that is pretty competitive. Again, the right "AAA" title does just as well on PC
Men at War had a free weekend a week or so ago. As this site updates in intervals with days between, it's safe to assume it's also including those free weekend players. Just wait another week until the site does another check if you want accurate MaW numbers.
It was optimized extremely well for PC so most people knew they could run it just fine. So yes, impressive numbers considering how late the port was and how console-centric the series is.
Denton
Member
Recent free weekend, skews the numbers. It will go down as Steam deregisters the game.
Sportbilly
Member
So the developer of SteamSpy - Sergey Galyonkin - now tweeted that he has claims from some developers saying that their numbers provided by publisher are WAY LOWER. Seems interesting.
Behold the #STEAMGATE, you saw it here first!
Behold the #STEAMGATE, you saw it here first!
Just a few games that used to be mods. Missing info from the heavy hitters like DotA/TF2.
Chivalry: Medieval Warfare 2,639,337 ± 92,420
Insurgency 1,601,692 ± 72,162
Natural Selection 2 1,569,266 ± 71,433
Red Orchestra 902,819 ± 54,261
Red Orchestra 2 2,690,536 ± 93,302
Killing Floor 5,118,248 ± 127,989
Garry's Mod 8,513,631 ± 163,804
Dear Esther 786,766 ± 50,667
DayZ 3,085,626 ± 99,830
Counter-Strike 11,179,420 ± 186,558
Counter-Strike: Source 13,700,998 ± 205,321
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 12,142,825 ± 193,997
More mod support is in order I think.
ah, ok thanks.
It is the game I think would've done the best on pc out of all of Capcom's last gen games.
Chivalry: Medieval Warfare 2,639,337 ± 92,420
Insurgency 1,601,692 ± 72,162
Was given away as part of a humble bundle thing
Natural Selection 2 1,569,266 ± 71,433
Red Orchestra 902,819 ± 54,261
Red Orchestra 2 2,690,536 ± 93,302
Killing Floor 5,118,248 ± 127,989
Garry's Mod 8,513,631 ± 163,804
Dear Esther 786,766 ± 50,667
DayZ 3,085,626 ± 99,830
Counter-Strike 11,179,420 ± 186,558
Counter-Strike: Source 13,700,998 ± 205,321
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 12,142,825 ± 193,997
More mod support is in order I think.
ah, ok thanks.
It is the game I think would've done the best on pc out of all of Capcom's last gen games.
Holy shit! Global Offensive is almost the best selling Counter Strike.
Considerable part of those sales are cheaters and smurfs though.
And idle bots.
alexandros
Banned
Yup. Which is why I don't understand at all why there were people claiming that triple-A sales are low. They are anything but. There are outliers (Call of Duty and some Ubisoft games) but there are very good reasons for why that is. Call of Duty's well was poisoned from the various issues after Modern Warfare 2 and Ubisoft's games are frequently buggy on release and saddled with uplay which literally no one wants.
In most other cases PC sales are absolutely competitive to the console versions, which is mindblowingly impressive considering that these sales are accompanied by multiple other Pc-only titles that also sell millions, indie titles that sell very well and free2play games with massive userbases. The PC gaming market is truly booming right now.
So the developer of SteamSpy - Sergey Galyonkin - now tweeted that he has claims from some developers saying that their numbers provided by publisher are WAY LOWER. Seems interesting.
Behold the #STEAMGATE, you saw it here first!
Oh my. This could get ugly.
Pandora's box. It's open.
Denton
Member
So the developer of SteamSpy - Sergey Galyonkin - now tweeted that he has claims from some developers saying that their numbers provided by publisher are WAY LOWER. Seems interesting.
Behold the #STEAMGATE, you saw it here first!
This could be quite something. If some devs start suing publishers...#steamgate indeed
It's about damn time. The pretense of silence around sales figures being somehow beneficial to the industry is a load of crap and maybe this will shine a light on some things. In a perfect world this will mean Steam starts releasing actual sales figures, though it seems just as likely in a few days they'll block his ability to use the API.
So the developer of SteamSpy - Sergey Galyonkin - now tweeted that he has claims from some developers saying that their numbers provided by publisher are WAY LOWER. Seems interesting.
Behold the #STEAMGATE, you saw it here first!
wow
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Don't devs get the sales data from steam as well? Only the publishers? That seems...dumb
Shake Appeal
Member
This makes me sad. PSA: Dragonfall is a huge improvement on Returns. If you liked the first one even a little bit, you need Dragonfall.
Really hoping Pillars has a long, long tail. Deserves to do at least as well as D:OS, especially if trash like Skyrim is a multimillion-seller.
A little worried about Invisible, Inc., but maybe those numbers are great for a Early Access title of its kind.
Denton
Member
Devs do if they selfpublish. But if dev works for publisher, then pub gets the data.
Spiritwalker
Member
Fascinating numbers. I too was surprised to see The Last Remnant there, but I guess bundles account for a big chunk of its sales. Love the game though.
Turin Turambar
Member
Even more important, they have sold 1.6 millions of Arma 3, and that one doesn't the have zobmie and/or survival appeal from Dayz to bring people in.
(Actually there is a zombie mod but it's way less known than Dayz, it didn't go "viral" like Dayz).
This could be fun. I hope more devs will discover something similar and pursue it further.So the developer of SteamSpy - Sergey Galyonkin - now tweeted that he has claims from some developers saying that their numbers provided by publisher are WAY LOWER. Seems interesting.
Behold the #STEAMGATE, you saw it here first!
Turin Turambar
Member
So the developer of SteamSpy - Sergey Galyonkin - now tweeted that he has claims from some developers saying that their numbers provided by publisher are WAY LOWER. Seems interesting.
Behold the #STEAMGATE, you saw it here first!
Why I'm not surprised...
So the developer of SteamSpy - Sergey Galyonkin - now tweeted that he has claims from some developers saying that their numbers provided by publisher are WAY LOWER. Seems interesting.
Behold the #STEAMGATE, you saw it here first!
Holy shit. Developer manipulation by publishers on the worst scale if true.
I guess it's time to actually call Kotaku?
Denton
Member
Also what is impressive, ArmA 3 is not on sale that often and I do not think it was ever more than 50% off.
Bohemia must be happy. They are expanding accordingly.
Intheflorsh
Banned
I wonder if any publishers/developers are going to be embarrassed having these numbers out in the public.
For comparison, MGS V Ground Zeroes sold about 211 518 copies (PS3/PS4) on first week in Japan only (retail, excluding digital copies) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=791138
uncredited male
Member
So the developer of SteamSpy - Sergey Galyonkin - now tweeted that he has claims from some developers saying that their numbers provided by publisher are WAY LOWER. Seems interesting.
Behold the #STEAMGATE, you saw it here first!
I think this may be thread worthy.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
I feel like more information is necessary before we should jump to any conclusions.