An anonymous reader quotes PC Gamer:
In a surprise announcement today to kick off 2017, Valve has revealed the 100 best-selling Steam games of 2016… Although the “Top Sellers” section of Steam gives a constant sense of what’s selling now, Valve hasn’t previously compiled an annual list of which Steam games earned the most money… Rather than ranked in order from 1-100, the list is separated into tiers, from Platinum to Bronze, based on revenue (as opposed to copies sold)… Doom didn’t crack the top 12, but it may have gotten close: it’s ranked somewhere between 13th and 24th

That second-place Gold tier included more modern throwbacks to classic games, including Team Fortress 2, Call of Duty: Black Ops III, and Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20-Year Celebration. Meanwhile, No Man’s Sky, which got off to a rocky start this summer before its massive November update, still turned up in the top “Platinum” tier for revenue earned in 2016. (And it’s now discounted 40%.)

In fact, “As an extension of the Winter Sale, all but six of these games are on sale,” reports PC Gamer. The other top-earning Steam games were Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Grand Theft Auto V, Civilization VI, and DOTA 2 (which is free to play), as well as Rocket League, XCOM 2, Dark Souls III, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Fallout 4, Total War: Warhammer, and Tom Clancy’s The Division.

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