With the year coming to an end, we're happy to unveil our Best of Steam - 2022, showcasing the year's Top Sellers, Most-Played Games, Top New Releases, and more!

Before jumping into the lists, we recommend reading the attached notes, which help explain some of the criteria for how these lists are generated.

Finally, with the Winter Sale in full swing, these lists offer a unique way to browse Winter Sale discounts on many of the games that players crowned as The Best of 2022.

Happy Holidays!

We're thrilled to announce Steam Replay, coming directly to all Steam users beginning today! What is Steam Replay? Watch the video above, or read on to find out.

Whether this was your best year yet or one you’d sooner forget, playing games was (hopefully!) a reliably fun escape. To celebrate, we’re introducing Steam Replay!

From your top games this year, to how and when you spent your most playtime, Steam Replay presents a wrap-up of your time on Steam in 2022.

Visit Steam to take a look at your very own Steam Replay starting today, and feel free to share with your friends via Steam and social media!

The Steam Winter Sale is LIVE! From now until January 5th at 10am PST, you'll find deals on thousands of games in our biggest sale of the year. Shop for yourself or your friends—you can gift specific games, or go the gift card route.

As for the Steam Awards, you've already nominated your favorite games from 2022, so now it's time to VOTE! Vote HERE across all 11 categories by January 3rd at 9am PST; we'll be announcing the winners just one hour later.

Here's how:



Feeling like you deserve a little something yourself? Of COURSE you do! We have everything from free stickers to a new badge you can craft with Winter Sale trading cards, along with other winter goodies on sale in the Points Shop.

The Steam Winter Sale is on now through January 5 at 10am PST! See you there!

The excitement of the Steam Winter Sale is almost upon us, but before we jump in we're happy to announce Steam's Top Releases of November. As always, we look at every release for the month, highlighting the Top 20 games and Top 5 DLC releases based on the first two weeks of revenue. We also highlight the top 5 free-to-play games, ranked by the number of unique players they acquired after launch.

The Top Releases of November 2022

As fans celebrated the excitement of this year’s World Cup, Football Manager 2023 smashed its way onto November’s Top Release list. This franchise has steadily become a fixture on Steam with perennial appearances on our Top Release lists, so its comes as no surprise that football fans from around the world put it here once again.

Fatshark returns to the Top Release list with their brand new Warhammer 40,000 installment, Darktide. As they did for years with their Vermintide series, Fatshark showcases how appealing the Warhammer universe can be when combined with a well-designed product. No experience painting miniatures is required to enjoy all the visceral co-op action in this latest Warhammer hit.

Finally, we can’t mention franchises without giving a shout out to Spider-Man and Sonic. Both of these beloved heroes secured their place on this month's Top Release list, all while saving the world yet again.

The gameplay of a polished Top Release can be so engaging that it’s easy to lose sight of the incredible stories that these games tell. November’s top releases are not only filled with stories that are worth highlighting, they demonstrate how narratives can be integrated with compelling gameplay in a variety of ways. Several of the games this month, including Pentiment and The Devil in Me, shape their narratives around the choices and decisions that players make. The Past Within takes it a step further with a fresh co-op experience that allows friends to experience two sides of the same story from entirely different perspectives.

Finally, we'd like to congratulate the teams that are releasing a product on Steam for the very first time. A big welcome and congrats go out to these development teams on their successful Steam debuts.

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If you're curious about previous months, head over to our Steam Charts overview page.

Note: This update was re-released Jan 26 to fix redeeming purchased game content.

New Big Picture Mode

• Fixed gamepad focus issues in Steam store
  
• Fixed footer buttons sometimes not appearing in Steam store

There’s a feeling of holiday magic in the air—specifically the kind of holiday magic that translates to massive savings on thousands of games during the Steam Winter Sale, December 22nd at 10am PST through January 5, 2023 at 10am PST.

We promise no one will be following you around this store asking "CAN I HELP YOU FIND ANYTHING?” while you browse. And boy do we have fun things to browse. Beyond checking out discounted games, you can also hit up the Points Shop to claim free stickers throughout the sale, or look for deals on additional winter goodies.

While you’re visiting our magical “town” of deals, don't forget to cast your vote in the 2022 Steam Awards! Beginning Friday December 16 at 10am PST, we'll be announcing your nominations in each category, based on your votes during the Steam Autumn Sale. Voting for the winners will begin when the Winter Sale officially launches on December 22nd at 10am PST.

The sale will be live at https://store.steampowered.com/

See you soon, and Happy Holidays!