Steam's 2025 Best-Sellers: ARC Raiders, Kingdom Come 2 Lead Charts

Steam dropped its year-end revenue charts yesterday. The numbers tell a story.

Valve's platform revealed which games made serious cash in 2025, splitting results into neat categories: new releases, Steam Deck favourites, and VR hits. Online multiplayer titles grabbed most of the spotlight, but single-player experiences held their ground too.

The Platinum Dozen

Twelve games cracked Steam's highest revenue tier for 2025. Here's the full list (alphabetically arranged):

• ARC Raiders
• Battlefield 6
• Borderlands 4
• Dune: Awakening
• EA Sports FC 26
• Elden Ring: Nightreign
• Hollow Knight: Silksong
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
• Monster Hunter Wilds
• Schedule I
• Sid Meier's Civilization 7
• The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered

What stands out? Multiplayer games dominated. ARC Raiders, Battlefield 6, Schedule I, Dune: Awakening, and Elden Ring: Nightreign all thrived on player interaction. But single-player fans got their wins. Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 proved medieval RPGs still sell. Hollow Knight: Silksong finally launched (worth the wait, apparently). And Bethesda squeezed more life out of Oblivion with a remaster.

Some entries sparked debate. User reviews weren't kind to every title here. Bugs plagued several launches. Yet Monster Hunter Wilds, Civilization 7, EA Sports FC 26, and Borderlands 4 still pulled in enough players to land in the top tier.

Gold, Silver, Bronze

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 missed Platinum despite critical praise. The RPG settled into Gold tier instead, joined by Dispatch, Doom: The Dark Ages, and Digimon Story: Time Stranger. Not bad company.

[IMAGE_HERE: Screenshot from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 showing combat gameplay]

Silver and Bronze tiers included multi-platform arrivals. Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles showed up. Ball x Pit made waves. PowerWash Simulator 2 kept players scrubbing virtual dirt. Console exclusives like Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Marvel's Spider-Man 2, and Stellar Blade found new audiences on PC throughout the year.

Steam's Winter Sale knocked prices down across the board. Schedule I and Hollow Knight: Silksong together? Twenty-nine quid. Every Platinum tier game got discounted. Smart timing from Valve.

What's Next

Valve promises an updated top 100 list on January 15th, days after the Winter Sale wraps. But 2026's bigger story? The Steam Machine returns.

[IMAGE_HERE: Concept render or official image of the new Steam Machine hardware]

The cube-shaped PC packs an AMD six-core CPU and RDNA 3 graphics. Targets 1080p and 1440p performance. FSR upscaling pushes things to 4K when needed. Full Steam library access. A new Steam Controller tags along, borrowing the Steam Deck's touchpad layout.

Pricing? Release date? Valve's keeping quiet. One obstacle looms large: the RAM crisis. DDR5 kit prices quadrupled since October 2025. If the shortage continues, the Steam Machine's launch window could shift. PlayStation and Xbox's next consoles face the same problem.

2025 gave PC players plenty to chew on. From award winners to multiplayer sensations, Steam's ecosystem stayed healthy despite industry turbulence. R.E.P.O., Peak, and RV There Yet all found audiences. Indies thrived alongside AAA behemoths.

The platform's diversity shows. Strategy fans got Civilization 7. Looter-shooter enthusiasts grabbed Borderlands 4. Sports players bought EA Sports FC 26. RPG devotees split between Kingdom Come 2 and Elden Ring: Nightreign. Something for everyone, really.

Will 2026 match this? Depends on hardware costs, developer output, and whether Valve's Steam Machine finds its audience. One thing's certain: PC gaming isn't slowing down.