The top 100 best sellers on Steam from 2016

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: liamdaweArticle updated to avoid confusion.

Did you add the statistics to the article as well or have I been blind an hour ago? X)

Whole article was updated.

43/100 is pretty good and important to note that one of the hundred is actually the steam controller and some of the others, as much as we might like, would never come to Linux. That isn't to say that, come time for sequels, such as with Mafia 3, the strength Linux has behind it now might bring a port next time.

I've been hearing "Year of the Linux Desktop" for the last twenty years, but perhaps, maybe, 2017 might be the year Linux breaks through enough to see most games released with a Linux version...

Arma 3 has a Linux beta, but I guess it's not official.
EDIT: And in BRONZE there is the Steam Controller which isn't a game :D


Last edited by BOYSSSSS on 2 January 2017 at 5:27 pm UTC

43/100 is definitely better than I would have expected. It also cuts directly against the meme of Linux games being all "crappy" indie games--to the contrary, clearly Linux has a bigger percentage of the top games than of games overall. I mean, I dunno how many of these top-selling games were technically "AAA" games in terms of mammoth budgets from big companies, but surely it's more important to have the games people actually bought than the most bloated ones.

I'd have to say this comes close to settling something: Really hard core gamers may still have reasons to want/need Windows so they can have every latest and greatest they choose. But for casual, or even average, gamers nearly half of the top sellers is plenty enough to be able to say, "Yeah you can play games on it".

Quoting: Purple Library GuyI mean, I dunno how many of these top-selling games were technically "AAA" games in terms of mammoth budgets from big companies, but surely it's more important to have the games people actually bought than the most bloated ones.

Totally! This is AAA fun, not AAA costs. (*)

(*) I should think of actually becoming PR guy. ;)

I was also pleasantly surprised by how many games of the Top 100 came with a Linux version. Personally, the ratio was even better for me, since I barely could find a game in the Top 100 that I -wanted- and does not come with a Linux version. It was basically Rise of the Tomb Raider (which has a strong chance of getting ported one day), Fallout 4 and The Elder Scrolls Online. The other Windows-only topsellers I don't want enough to miss them...