Best of Steam 2024 - the top performing games on steam, including best sellers on Steam Deck

Weighted by time to finish (somehow) so short games aren't penalized.

And one with average hours played per player

a game can be good *and* have predatory gambling mechanics inside of it. in fact making a game people want to play more of, enables those mechanics to work on a larger number of people

Warframe is there and everything in the game can be unlocked for free, its a grindy looter shooter that rose against the odds and is a shining examplen of f2p, the story is like 11/10, it is on another level

I'm from the EU.

I think it's something to do with it being or not being the largest discount in the last X days (maybe 90 days? I'm not sure)

Seems to be a non-EU problem then I guess.


Here's a better view: https://imgur.com/a/ndBfWLy

Huh? What do you mean? For me it looks like this (am in the EU tho):


No, this is pro-consumer. Showing the original price and the "X% off!" sign is price anchoring designed to make you think you're getting a great deal and to make you feel urgency to buy it now. It's why we all have such giant collections of unplayed games.

I wouldn't say *don't*.

If your game can't look good on the lowest settings then there's an art-direction problem, not that BG3 has that issue.

I can't say I've ever cared about how a game looks.

Fair enough. Certainly some devs spend a ton of time making games look incredible so there's obviously a bunch of users like me who do appreciate that, and also many who don't!

Cool!

Ok 🤷

Yea it's 16:10

Oh right, had just assumed it's 720p because the width is 1280. So it isn't 16:9, which is nice but slightly surprising!

It's 800p

I don't think looks bad at all

The display of the steam deck is only 720p in the first place.

Define "fine". Is it playable? Sure. But it also looks quite bad at 800p/low/30fps

Runs fine on mine but it definitely runs it at a weird res and upscales to maintain performance

It really depends on the specific game, many older AAA games or non-unreal games run fine.

It's also interesting seeing how some games run much better now than they did on release. CP2077 (non-dlc parts) runs pretty well now for example, much better than it did when the Deck first came out.

I thought elden ring ran beautifully. Is bg3 that rough on deck?

Agree. AAA titles aren't suited to run on a Deck and should be streamed from a PC with remote play....but I this k this is the appeal of having the games in a portable format, that people are willing to put up with such shit performance.

I can't say I've ever cared about how a game looks.* Sure maybe it's worth discussing, but it's always the last thing on my list.

I played BG3 (Once, all the way, second time up to act 2) exclusively on my Steam Deck in handheld mode. Sure Act 3 has a little bit of lag, but nothing that ever bothered me. All the characters in the game were unique, I know Gale from Karlach from Lae'zel.

*(Discussion about art style or artistic choice being different, Pixel vs cell-shaded vs realistic etc)

I love potatoes, also BG3 works fine on the deck?

The default settings look pretty bad, but with some setting changes you can get it to look a lot better without sacrificing too much performance.

It's not really the type of game that has to run at a solid 60 FPS or anything.

imma part of the reason it shows up.

Pretty much the same titles over and over again.

I'll never not be shocked at BG3 because it runs potato quality but to each their own, I suppose.

it's fascinating how the "top selling" that is measured by "gross revenue" has so many "free to play" games on the top. ahhh the aggressive gambling tactics

I wish they’d make a list sorted by units sold.

I really dislike the way they hide the original prices on Steam now and you have to open the store pages to find the original price.

I think it even goes against some consumer rules here in Europe.

(I think they even didn't have the original price visible for a while)