Steam is without a doubt the most successful online gaming store on the market. This is due not only to his seniority, but also to the fact that he has been able to gain the favor of a significant part of the community over the years. player. Valve no doubt knew how to see a business opportunity at the time and adapted and developed it to fit the context of each moment. So, as we could already learn from the data provided by the platform itself, some of its numbers are spectacular.

And this is a very important and interesting aspect of Steam, the amount of interesting information it generates and collects. For example, over the past few months, your user survey has provided us with updates on the pace of adoption of Windows 11 by the gaming community. And something that Valve is very grateful for is that instead of keeping this information solely for their own use, publishes generallywhich favors exactly what I commented a moment ago that we have very useful data in terms of information.

Valve is aware of this value and does not just offer this information. Also coccasionally add new data, improve its representation, etc.. And that just happened, as we can read in the latest press release from Steam:

«Today we’re launching Steam Charts, a new section of Steam dedicated to showcasing the best-selling and most-played games on Steam. Including real-time numbers.

The Steam Charts page replaces Steam Stats as an overview of what’s popular on Steam, whether in real-time, weekly or even monthly. Steam Charts also compiles the numbers in more detail to give a more complete picture of the games players are excited about.»

Steam Charts is basically the only site that contains all the data related to the most popular games of the moment (remember that its content is generated in real time) as well as with the usual infrastructure usage data. The top selling and most played games lists on this main page consist of five elements, each with a link that allows more information to see the first hundred.

Next we find weekly and monthly rankingstop news and quick links to other useful Steam-related data pages, such as Valve’s hardware survey results, download statistics, and more.