Continuing our monthly series, we're happy to announce the Top Releases of November. As a reminder, we showcase the Top 20 titles released during the month, measured by the revenue generated during the first two weeks after release. We also highlight the Top 5 free-to-play titles, based on number of unique players they acquired.


Players have always appreciated how games allow them to see worlds they may not otherwise be able to. November demonstrated that theme in a fun way, with many players opting for the experiences that come with real-life careers. Whether it's the excitement of blazing danger in Firefighting Simulator, the feeling of worldwide musical fame in FUSER™, the challenge of attaining perfection in Football Manager 2021, or even the appetite for exploration in Mars Horizon, these games give players a taste of what these careers entail - now only if they came with the paycheck, too! Make sure to check future months to see if your job ends up becoming a Top Release.


We're also happy to see four new Early Access debuts in November, each well on their way to creating collaborative and invested communities. Prodeus and Due Process are bringing new and exciting elements to the FPS genre, while Door Kickers 2 and Kingdoms Reborn give players two completely unique simulation experiences that are worth checking out. We're looking forward to watching these games and their communities grow as they progress through Early Access.


About half of the games this month are coming from teams who are releasing a product on Steam for the very first time. Some of these teams have worked on games before, while others are completely new to development. A big welcome and congratulations to Bounding Box Software Inc., Chris Shanaz, Chronos Unterhaltungssoftware, Damian Schloter, Earthshine, Giant Enemy Crab, GSQ Games, Pillow Castle, Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, Stellar Entertainment Limited, Vadim Slyusarev, and YS Net.

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Here's the list of November's top releases ordered by release date (we've organized this list on a handy sale page too):


Kingdoms Reborn
Earthshine (Thailand)


Door Kickers 2: Task Force North
KillHouse Games (Romania)


Due Process
Giant Enemy Crab (USA)


SpellForce 3: Fallen God
Grimlore Games (Germany)


Apex Legends™
Respawn Entertainment (USA)


DIRT 5
Codemasters (UK)


Need for Speed™ Hot Pursuit Remastered
Stellar Entertainment Limited (UK)


Superliminal
Pillow Castle (USA)


Prodeus
Bounding Box Software Inc. (USA)


FUSER™
Harmonix Music Systems, Inc (USA)


Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin
Edelweiss (Japan)


Yakuza: Like a Dragon
Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio (Japan)


Titanfall™
Respawn Entertainment (USA)


Firefighting Simulator - The Squad
Chronos Unterhaltungssoftware (Germany)


Mars Horizon
Auroch Digital (UK)


Shenmue III
YS Net (Japan)


Slasher's Keep
Damian Schloter (Germany)


Football Manager 2021
Sports Interactive (UK)


Amazing Cultivation Simulator
GSQ Games (China)


NEKOPARA Vol. 4
NEKO WORKs (Japan)

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And here are the Top 5 free-to-play titles from November, ranked by total unique player count:


Apex Legends™
Respawn Entertainment (USA)


Super Buckyball Tournament Preseason
Pathea Games (China)


*NEW* SCUFFED EPIC BHOP SIMULATOR 2023 (POG CHAMP)
Chris Shanaz (Australia)


Our Life: Beginnings & Always
GB Patch Games (USA)


Disc Space
Vadim Slyusarev (UK)

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If you're curious about previous months, here are more Top Release lists:

• May 2020
  
• June 2020
  
• July 2020
  
• August 2020
  
• September 2020
  
• October 2020

Library

• Added a new game properties dialog, which replaces the old dialog for all Steam games.
  
• Fixed displaying the coming soon date for a pre-loaded game

Steam Input

• Added support for software calibration of the PS5 controller gyro
  
• Fix issue with Dpad emulation in games using the joyGetPosEx Windows API, ex: Shiren the Wanderer
  
• Fix Nintendo Switch origins in Steam Input API not reflecting the current Nintendo/Xbox layout setting

Steam Cloud

• Fixed an issue causing files to swap between users under separate Windows user IDs, and also with some file stored in paths with embedded 64-bit SteamIDs

SteamNetworkingSockets

• P2P connections now may attempt to negotiate a direct connection (punch NAT), if needed, to prevent connections from having very high latency. Added an option in the In-Game settings panel to control when your IP address is shared.

Server Browser

• Fix bug causing LAN server browser search to not show any servers

Linux

• Improved performance of processing incremental Vulkan shader database updates
  
• Fixed several issues around skipped Vulkan shader processing continuing in the background after a game has started
  
• Disabled shader processing on NVIDIA while driver issues are being looked into
  
• Fixed long delay in UI response when hot-plugging a controller

macOS

• Disabled “Enable GPU accelerated rendering in web views” and “Enable hardware video decoding” settings on Apple M1 devices due to poor HW-accelerated performance currently through Rosetta.

Whether you're at work, on the bus, or playing at home, you can now browse your personalized Steam News Hub to easily find updates, announcements, and events for the games you play, wishlist, and follow.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/

The News Hub is designed to be flexible and personalized around your games and preferences, with many customization options built in. By default, the News Hub shows posts from the games you play, wishlist, follow, or are recommended. Or, if you want to take full control, you can change all that with a few quick setting adjustments in the left-hand menu. Plus, you can choose to follow and receive news from dozens of top gaming news sources across a variety of languages.

First launched as an experiment in Steam Labs in March, the News Hub has been developed with the feedback of players along the way. Today it becomes a full feature of Steam and replaces the previous news feed found at /news.

By default, the Steam News Hub will show you everything posted by the developers of the games you play, games you wishlist, and games that you follow. From patch notes to weekend tournaments to Major Updates, the News Hub is a great way to keep up to speed with new developments and activities in the games you care about. But you can easily change these defaults to exclude certain kinds of posts or posts from certain categories of games. You can also mute individual games directly from the News Hub.

Explore your personalized Steam News Hub here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/ or by selecting 'store → news' at the top of Steam.



In addition to news from Steam and game creators, the News Hub allows you to follow gaming sites from around the world.

The old newsfeed only featured a handful of gaming news sites. Now, housed through the Steam Curator system, dozens of sites from around the world are now featured via a new menu item for “Steam News Curators” that allows you to explore all these sources. Here you can see what sorts of things they write about as you choose which ones you might like to add to your personalized hub.



Each News Curator brings different kinds of news and content, including rich media, screenshots, videos, and/or detailed guides and reviews. Some deliver blurbs that you can quickly scan in the News Hub, while other sources include full articles. Included YouTube videos are even playable right in the news feed. And there's always a link to explore more via the news source's own website.

Check out news sources here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/collection/press/

Beyond info, the News Hub also makes it easy to explore events coming up and lets you sign up for email or mobile app reminders. Or you can just add the event to your Google Calendar or iCal so you can plan your weekend around interesting tournaments or community events.



Explore your upcoming events here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/?upcoming=1

Get more info on all the recent updates for the games you play: When you click to read news from games in your library that just updated, you'll find the Steam News Hub, filtered to just update notes about that game (note that not every developer is in the habit yet of posting patch notes with every update. We've got some updates coming soon that should help with that.)

Interested in what's happening in some of the most popular games on Steam? Check the 'featured' channel for major updates, live events, and news from top selling and top played games on Steam.

Check out featured articles here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/collection/featured/

Keep up to date with the latest announcements directly from Steam, such as new feature announcements and exciting new events and festivals. Plus, if you are a game developer, this will include news and updates about Steamworks.

Browse official Steam announcements here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/collection/steam/

Of course, the whole goal behind the Steam News Hub is to give you a personalized view of gaming news, so you get to choose what kind of content you want to see and what kind you don’t. If you wish, you can ignore individual news sources from within your feed by selecting the little menu below a post by that source and selecting 'mute' to exclude their news from your feed.

While your favorite game may not translate everything they post into your language, the News Hub supports it. You'll find official Steam news as well as news and posts from many popular games available in a huge variety of languages.

The event hub is designed with mobile use in mind so you can keep up with your favorite games when you're out and about.

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To get back to the new Steam News Hub, just select 'news' from the main store drop-down in Steam.
Or click "news" on the blue bar.

Check it out now: https://store.steampowered.com/news/



Launched in July 2019, Steam Labs is a place where experimental new features can be introduced early in development, tested, and developed in conjunction with the community. For more information, please visit https://store.steampowered.com/labs/

With this experiment, we aim to increase the surface area of the store by introducing a broader set of ways to browse Steam’s catalog of games from the outset—no login or complex searching required. Our new views provide greater exposure to the breadth of games available on Steam through new useful points of entry such as sub-genres, themes, and player modes. We hope you’ll opt into our Store Browse Experiment to give these new views a try, then let us know what you think in the discussions.

Many users rely on our charts for quick snapshots of what’s new and popular on Steam. These are now accessible from one menu, New & Noteworthy, which also provides direct access to the biggest events currently running Steam—including game festivals, publisher sales, and other seasonal celebrations.

A basic list of genres, while easy to browse, falls a bit short given how large our catalog has grown. Our new Categories menu helps users quickly discover and dive into the breadth and depth of interesting games on Steam. This menu serves up dozens of new categories of games, which can then be explored further.




It’s not enough to simply offer good games on Steam—we also need to make sure they’re easy to discover. And to do that, we need to organize them in ways that make sense without being overwhelming. You might be able to fit the same amount of goods in an open-air bazaar as in a cramped warehouse, but you’re far more likely to find what you want in the former.

The first step in building such a system is to present meaningful entry points which reflect the various ways people typically want to browse a store full of games.

New Entry Points: Genres, Themes, and Player Modes

This experiment exposes entry points modeled after the three chief ways players tend to browse Steam—by genre, by theme, and by player modes. Each of these motivations broadly answers a different question:

Genres “What kind of game is this? What is it like to play?”
Strategy, RPG, 3D Platformer, Metroidvania, etc.

Themes “What is the game’s content like?”
Fantasy, Science Fiction, Cute, Relaxing, Anime, Horror, etc.

Player Modes “Who can I play the game with?”
Singleplayer, Multiplayer, MMO, Co-op, etc.

These player motivations can be organized and expressed using our existing tags and metadata. Categories grouped under the Genres and Themes entry points are defined by tags, whereas categories grouped under Player Modes are defined by metadata provided directly by the developer.

We arrived at these three top-level categories through a mix of formal research and intuition. But there’s also strong precedent for this scheme on Steam itself in the form of Steam Curators. We noticed many curators are building lists of specific types of games, almost all of which fall under one of the above three patterns: Gameplay and genre-based lists like City Builders, theme-based lists like Games with Dogs, or player mode-based lists like Games to Play with Your Significant Other.

New Browse Views

Among these three entry points we are currently surfacing 48 genre categories, 8 theme categories, and 7 player mode categories, for a total of 63 new categories. Clicking on any of these will take you to a dedicated content hub, a landing page dedicated to that kind of game.




Each of these destinations has its own URL, so you can bookmark them or share them with friends. Each features a carousel highlighting featured games, top sellers, and specials, as well as five specific tabs listing

• New & Trending
  
• Top Sellers
  
• What’s Being Played
  
• Top Rated
  
• Upcoming

Players can narrow by popular tags within these hubs as well. The left column of tags surfaces popular genre and sub-genre tags common to this category, and the right column surfaces other types of popular tags (such as mechanics, visuals, themes, and player modes).

Clicking on any of these will take you to a sub-view of the content hub. In the illustration above, we’re viewing Building & Automation Sims, but now we’re viewing only those which also include the Space Sim tag. Each of these sub-views gets its own unique URLs too.

Viewers can return to the parent category any time by toggling the filtering tag previously clicked, or by clicking another to display a different sub-view of the category.

Steam’s Special Sections

This experiment also moves some items previously found in their own top-level menus (such as Software and Hardware) into Special Sections under Categories. Now these and other potential points of entry are all consolidated in a single categorical browse menu.

How can we be confident in our selection and definition of over 60 new categories? This is an experiment, and thankfully our process includes you. Your feedback on our decisions will help us refine our categorization. To date, our methodology has been a mixture of traditional Library Science and human intuition backed by numerical analysis, and is built leveraging previous Steam Labs experimentation.

1. We organized all of our user tags into meaningful Categories such as Genres, Visuals, Themes, and Features. These categories were first used in Deep Dive to help determine similarity between games.
   
   
2. We mapped out the semantic relationships between tags, so Steam could recognize that a Strategy RPG is both a Strategy game and also an RPG. This feature was first used in Query Expansion for Search.
   
   
3. We’ve made some efforts to improve the quality of Steam tags. We built an internal tool that analyzes the quality of the tags of every game on Steam, flagging games that have too few tags, or are missing crucial tags like genres and subgenres, and now surface these and other warnings to developers. We paired this tag quality inspector with a new developer tool, the Tag Wizard, that helps our partners improve the sets of tags associated with their games.
   
   
4. We identified a flexible hierarchy of genres using prior research in games classification, as well as statistical analysis of which tags appear most commonly alongside other tags on Steam.
   
   
5. We built a system for defining tag clusters to reveal higher-level concepts like Card & Board Games rather than a single tag like Card Game. Now, a tag cluster like Card & Board Games isn’t defined as simply Card Game plus Board Game. Instead, it also includes tags like Solitaire, Card Battler, Deckbuilder, Tabletop, and so on. And naturally, it uses Query Expansion to make sure nothing slips through the cracks.
   
   
6. We gave each tag cluster its own permanent landing page as described above.
   
   
7. We built a tool that analyzes which games fall into which categories, across the entire catalog. This helps us gut-check our choices and identify and resolve situations like:
   
   • Narrow categories too small to stand on their own that might be better served when merged with a sibling or two. This is where hubs like City & Settlement and Grand Strategy & 4X came from.
     
   • Overly broad or redundant categories that overlap too much with adjacent genres. These should be broken down into smaller categories or removed altogether. A good example is Action-Adventure; although we have a tag for this, in practice the concept of Action-Adventure doesn’t meaningfully distinguish itself enough from either Action or Adventure alone.
     
   • Games that aren’t being surfaced by any of our proposed categories. This is a wake-up call that we need to add new categories. This check kept us from overlooking the need for categories like Experimental and Exploration & Open World.
   
   
8. And most recently, we launched this experiment in Steam Labs!

Now we want to hear from you! What’s missing? What seems redundant? What is most interesting, and what’s… just not? Share your feedback in the discussions and help us improve the Steam store through Labs.

The 2020 Steam Autumn Sale is now live, with great deals across the Steam catalog through Black Friday and Cyber Monday, ending at 10am Pacific on Tuesday, December 1st. Discover featured titles and franchises, personalized recommendations, plus browse top titles by tag when you shop the Autumn Sale now!


Join us in our fifth annual Steam Awards by nominating your favorite new games of 2020 across 10 categories, and earn profile XP and badges for participating! Your nominations will help determine the finalists for each category. In December, you can vote on the winners for each category during the Steam Winter Sale. Select your nominations today!


New Autumn Sale animated avatar frames and background are also available now in the Points Shop.

We're continuing our Top Release series with a look at games released in October. As with past months, this list highlights the top 20 products measured by revenue generated during the first two weeks after release. We’re also highlighting the top 5 free-to-play products, measured by their unique player counts following release.

October culminated with Steam's annual Halloween sale, so it's no surprise that the Top Releases of the month include a number of horror games that really resonated with players. In Silence provides a unique twist on the survival-horror multiplayer experience, while Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope and Amnesia: Rebirth take players on fresh new narratives that are sure to deliver plenty of chills. Not every player has the fortitude to jump straight into a horror game, so thankfully October saw a wide variety of other genres and themes to go for. From the immersive and epic RPG experiences in Baldur's Gate 3 and The Outer Worlds to the action-packed multiplayer hits of STAR WARS™: Squadrons & FIFA 21, October's list features plenty of choices for every type of player.   

We're also excited to see new teams finding success on Steam. With October's list, we are welcoming 12 development teams who are bringing a product to Steam for the very first time. Congrats and welcome to (DOMO Studio, Echtra Inc., Jagex, LiLith, https://store.steampowered.com/app/1377580/Soulworker/., MOTIVE, Nolla Games, Ravenhood Games, Redstone Interactive, Tactical Adventures, Tuxedo Labs & YC Games).

These teams come together in a variety of ways, so for this month's list, we caught up with some of them to hear a bit about their unique stories:

Teardown - Tuxedo Labs

As the name might imply, Tuxedo Labs began as a technology experiment with Dennis Gustafsson designing a system to create fully destructible voxel worlds. As the experiment progressed, Dennis realized that smashing environments made of voxels could make for a pretty compelling game. After bringing along a team of industry veterans that he'd met through the years, the sandbox heist was brought to life. 

Solasta: Crown of the Magister - Tactical Adventures

After 20 years in the gaming industry, both working at Ubisoft and co-founding Amplitude Studios, Mathieu Girard formed Tactical Adventures to turn his lifelong passion for tabletop RPGs into a game. Not only does the team at Tactical Adventures come from all corners of the video game industry, most have plenty of experience with tabletop RPGs as well. So naturally, each week the team shares in some epic tabletop campaigns.

Beyond the Wire - Redstone Interactive

What began as a small exploratory side project within Offworld Industries, slowly grew into a brand new team: Redstone Interactive. Formed by veterans of Squad and Post Scriptum along with passionate members of their respective modding communities, Redstone is now completely dedicated to the Early Access development of their debut true-to-life WWI FPS, Beyond the Wire. Time will tell what mods the Redstone community creates, possibly cultivating the next generation of this development legacy.

Noita - Nolla Games

While working on a pixel-physics prototype in a coworking space in Helsinki, Finland, lead designer Petri Perho recruited fellow developers Arvi and Olli to form Nolla Games and create their innovative and highly successful debut: Noita. All three members of the Nolla Games team got their starts on Steam with completely separate games that many fans will immediately recognize.

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Here's the list of October's top releases ordered by release date (we've organized this list on a handy sale page too):


STAR WARS™: Squadrons
MOTIVE (Canada)


Baldur's Gate 3
Larian Studios (Belgium)


EA SPORTS™ FIFA 21
Electronic Arts (USA)


The Survivalists
Team17 Digital Ltd (UK)


Second Extinction™
Systemic Reaction™ (Sweden)


Torchlight III
Echtra Inc. (USA)


The Jackbox Party Pack 7
Jackbox Games, Inc. (USA)


RuneScape ®
Jagex (UK)


Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition
Tantalus Media & Forgotten Empires (Australia & USA)


Noita
Nolla Games (Finland)


Crown Trick
NExT Studios (China)


In Silence
Ravenhood Games (Turkey)


Amnesia: Rebirth
Frictional Games (Sweden)


Solasta: Crown of the Magister
Tactical Adventures (France)


Beyond The Wire
Redstone Interactive (Canada)


The Outer Worlds
Obsidian Entertainment (USA)


Ghostrunner
One More Level, 3D Realms & Slipgate Ironworks™ (Poland & Denmark)


Xuan-Yuan Sword VII
SOFTSTAR & DOMO Studio (Taiwan)


The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope
Supermassive Games (UK)


Teardown
Tuxedo Labs (Sweden)

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And here are the Top 5 free-to-play titles from September, ranked by total unique player count:


RuneScape ®
Jagex (UK)


Eternal Return: Black Survival
Nimble Neuron (Republic of Korea)


Action Taimanin
LiLith (Japan)


Soulworker
Lion Games Co., Ltd. (Republic of Korea)


Blood of Steel
YC Games (China)

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If you're curious about previous months, here are more Top Release lists:

• April 2020
  
• May 2020
  
• June 2020
  
• July 2020
  
• August 2020
  
• September 2020

Lace up those gloves and pick up some skull-crackin' deals on the best fighting games on Steam, on now until November 16th at 10am Pacific! From 2D and 3D Fighters to Party Brawlers and Beat ‘em ups, the Fighting Game Sale comes in like a spinning piledriver with discounts on games like:

TEKKEN 7
Street Fighter V
Mortal Kombat 11
Injustice 2
GUILTY GEAR xrd -REVELATOR-
Streets of Rage 4
Castle Crashers
SOULCALIBUR VI
THE KING OF FIGHTERS XIV STEAM EDITION
Slap City
BlazBlue Centralfiction

...and so much more!

So what are you waiting for, Fighting Game Fans? Dropkick on in here:
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/FightingGameSale

Get into the Halloween spirit with the Steam Halloween Sale, on now until November 2nd at 10am Pacific.

Reap ghoulish discounts on horror and Halloween-themed games across the Steam catalog. The sale also features other great games that have special Halloween-themed activities and updates that are happening during the Halloween Sale, such as:

• RUST's Halloween Update
  
• The Long Dark's Escape the Darkwalker Halloween Event
  
• Dead By Daylight's The Eternal Blight Event
  
• No Man's Sky's Halloween Update
  
• Graveyard Keeper’s Third DLC, Game of Crone
  
• Deep Rock Galactic's Deep Rock Ghoulactic Update
  
• Don't Starve Together's Return of Them: Forgotten Knowledge and Hallowed Nights
  
• King of Crabs Devil's Island Halloween Event
  
• Hello Neighbor 2 Alpha 1.5
  
• For Honor's Monsters of the Otherworld Event
  
• SMITE's The Reaping 2020
  
• SUPERHOT's Pumpkin Challenge
  
• Madden NFL 21 Ultimate Team: Most Feared
  
• Project Winter's Cabin Fever: Trick or Traitor Event
  
• DOOM Eternal's The Ancient Gods Part One
  
• Two Point Hospital's Culture Shock plus Fancy Dress Pack
  
• Armello's Skeeve's Curiosities
  
• Them's Fightin' Herds Return of the Frightenin' Herds
  
• Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege's Sugar Fright

You can also deck out your profile in our most haunted Halloween art yet, designed by Claire Hummel (@shoomlah on Twitter) and available now in the Points Shop as an
avatar frame, animated avatar, and animated profile background.

Another month of Steam releases is in the books, so with this post we're excited to announce the Top Releases of September. As with past months, this list highlights the top 20 products released in September, measured by revenue generated during the first two weeks following release. We’re also showcasing the top 5 free-to-play products, measured by unique player count following release.


Steam's Top Release lists are typically full of multiplayer games, but September's list stood out for the co-op variety in particular. With most of the games this month offering multiplayer support, 13 of them include co-op specific modes. Now more than ever, players appreciate the ability to connect with friends to share in their favorite games together. From jumping online for quick round of PES 2021 or Unrailed!, to assembling friends for a weekend-long gaming marathon with Marvel's Avengers, September's list features co-op experiences of all sizes and varieties. Perhaps the most essential co-op experience comes with September's runaway horror hit, Phasmophobia, where having a friend to share in the frightening experience is practically a necessity. If you and your friends are looking for more unique co-op experiences, check out September's full list below, along with the massive list of games in Steam's Co-op Hub.


September’s list also includes several highly anticipated installments from fan-favorite franchises. With almost half of the games this month being sequels or remasters, it was fun to pause and look back at some of the originals. The innovative dynasty simulator Crusader Kings was ahead of its time in 2004, but if you ask us, the newest version is the best yet. Then there’s Spelunky, which launched in 2008, influencing an entire generation of roguelike platformers. And how could we forget Serious Sam, which first invaded LAN parties nearly two decades ago. Ok, now we feel old.


We'd also like to congratulate the developers and communities of Hades, Squad and Unrailed!. All three of these games made their successful version 1.0 launches in September after plenty of hard work and updates throughout Early Access. Their development stories are unique, but the theme is the same: the Early Access model creates a mutually beneficial relationship between players ready to jump in-game and developers eager to get feedback. Look no further than these community hubs to see how the dedication from players and developers made these 1.0 releases truly something to be celebrated.


Finally, it wouldn't be a Top Release list without congratulating the teams that are releasing a product on Steam for the first time. We're happy to welcome these eight teams to Steam: Álvaro García (binarynonsense), Awe Interactive, BlitWorks, Indoor Astronaut, Kinetic Games, Kongregate, Inc., Lyrical Games & Rhino Games, Inc.

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Here's the list of September's top releases ordered by release date (we've organized this list on a sale page too):


Crusader Kings III
Paradox Development Studio (Sweden)


Craftopia
POCKET PAIR, Inc. (Japan)


Marvel's Avengers
Crystal Dynamics, Eidos-Montréal & Nixxes (USA, Canada & Netherlands)


NBA 2K21
Visual Concepts (USA)


Necromunda: Underhive Wars
Rogue Factor (Canada)


Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning
KAIKO, Big Huge Games & 38 Studios (Germany, USA & USA)


BPM: BULLETS PER MINUTE
Awe Interactive (UK)


eFootball PES 2021
Konami Digital Entertainment (Japan)


Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet Of Chaos
Artefacts Studio (France)


Hades
Supergiant Games (USA)


Medieval Dynasty
Render Cube (Poland)


Phasmophobia
Kinetic Games (UK)


Squad
Offworld Industries (Canada)


Unrailed!
Indoor Astronaut (Switzerland)


Untitled Goose Game
House House (Australia)


Mafia: Definitive Edition
Hangar 13 (USA)


Serious Sam 4
Croteam (Croatia)


Port Royale 4
Gaming Minds (Germany)


Captain Tsubasa - Rise of New Champions
TAMSOFT CORPORATION (Japan)


Spelunky 2
Mossmouth & BlitWorks (USA & Spain)

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Here are the Top 5 free-to-play titles from September, ranked by total unique player count:


Surviv.io - 2D Battle Royale
Kongregate, Inc. (USA)


Mythgard
Rhino Games, Inc. (USA)


DPS IDLE
YDKR (Russia)


High Entropy: Challenges
Álvaro García (binarynonsense) (Spain)


Idle Expanse
Lyrical Games LLC (USA)

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If you're curious about previous months, here are more Top Release lists:

• March 2020
  
• April 2020
  
• May 2020
  
• June 2020
  
• July 2020
  
• August 2020

A three-day schedule of over 40 hours of Premiere streaming events is now announced on Steam, and slated to begin next Wednesday, October 21st at 10 am Pacific.

The first-ever Steam Digital Tabletop Fest, celebrating games that cross between physical and digital, will make its debut October 21st through 26th. Produced in collaboration with Auroch Digital, the event will feature virtual let’s plays, panels, talks and more streaming activities that explore the fusion between physical and digital games with legendary designers, upcoming studios, and you.

In celebration of the Fest, we’ll also be featuring a Digital Tabletop Sale including downloadable demos and discounts on hundreds of card, board, and tabletop-adjacent titles on Steam.

Join the free Fest and attend events such as:

Let's Play Wingspan with Designer Elizabeth Hargrave
Physical and digital teams unite
Wednesday, Oct 21 @ 10am Pacific


The Mars Games Panel
Join a conversation among experts in game design and Mars exploration
Wednesday, Oct 21 @ 5pm Pacific


An Interview with Sandy Petersen
Yes, that Sandy Petersen, designer of the Call of Cthulhu RPG, DOOM level designer, creator of Cthulhu Wars and many, many other titles.
Thursday, October 22 @ 2pm Pacific


Let’s Play Slay the Spire with Devs & Designers
Worlds collide as physical and digital game creators come together to Slay the Spire
Thursday, Oct 22 @ 3pm Pacific

Join us for these events and more, Wednesday through Friday, with the Digital Tabletop sale extending on 'til Monday, October 26th at 10am Pacific.

Check out the full Schedule of Digital Tabletop Fest Events, featuring reminders to join your favorites.

#DigitalTabletopFest