Baldur's Gate 3 made more than Hogwarts Legacy and Starfield combined on Steam in 2023
Jan. 15, 2024Steam was dominated by RPGs last year
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As you can see from Twitter user @baiisun’s graphic below, following the top 3 - Baldur’s Gate 3 ($657m),Hogwarts Legacy($341m), Starfield ($235m) - Steam sold a lot of copies ofResident Evil 4($159m), survival gameSons of the Forest($116m), Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon ($87m), FC24 ($81m),Star Wars: Jedi Survivor($68m), co-op survival game Lethal Company ($52m), and Cities Skylines 2 ($50m).
One of my personal biggest takeaways from this data is that Baldur’s Gate 3 grossed ten times more than Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. Given the size of the Star Wars IP that Respawn’s action game is based on, that’s pretty impressive, but it’s important to remember that Larian’s CRPG owes a greater chunk of its community to PC, whereas Jedi Survivor is a more console-centric title that’s also been available across all platforms since launch - Baldur’s Gate 3’s PS5 launch followed a month after its PC release, and it would be substantially longer before the game’s Xbox Series X release.
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