Demanding AAA projects are most often played on the Steam Deck
The gaming platform Steam named the best games of 2023 according to various criteria.
As usual, Valve does not specify the places, but divides the games into platinum, gold, silver and bronze. Accordingly, platinum — these are the best projects of the year.
The top sellers of 2023 in monetary terms (Steam does not provide quantitative data) without specifying locations are as follows:
- Hogwarts Legacy
- Call of Duty (Modern Warfare III, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II and Warzone)
- Baldur's Gate 3
- Destiny 2
- Counter-Strike 2
- Starfield
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Apex Legends
- PUBG: Battlegrounds
- Dota 2
- Sons of the Forest
As you can see, there are games here that were not released in 2023. But if we talk only about new products, the rating looks like this:
- Baldur's Gate 3
- Resident Evil 4
- Hogwarts Legacy
- Payday 3
- Starfield
- Cities: Skylines II
- Remnant II
- EA Sports FC 24
- Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
- Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
- Sons of the Forest
- Street Fighter 6
The most popular games by the number of simultaneously playing gamers (more than 300,000 minimum):
- Destiny 2
- Sons of the Forest
- Hogwarts Legacy
- Starfield
- Apex Legends
- Goose Goose Duck
- Baldur's Gate 3
- Counter-Strike 2
- PUBG: Battlegrounds
- Dota 2
You can also highlight the most popular games for the Steam Deck by the number of daily active players:
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Baldur's Gate 3
- Hogwarts Legacy
- Vampire Survivors
- Starfield
- Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
- Grand Theft Auto V
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- Dave the Diver
- Resident Evil 4
- Elden Ring
- Half-Life
By the way, this list shows one important feature. Despite the fact that the Steam Deck is still not the most powerful console on the market in terms of performance, it struggles with very resource-intensive games, and the battery life in such games is two to three times worse than in undemanding games, as we see, Steam Deck owners most often They play big AAA games with excellent graphics.