Steam unveils the games that make up its Best of 2021 list –
Steam has released a list of the best of 2021 which explores and highlights the games that have had the most success on the online store over the past 12 months. While not a true ranking system, the list shows titles that make up the Top Selling Categories, New Releases, Most Played, Graduates in Early Access, Best of VR, and Steam’s user-friendly controllers.
Each category is divided into four individual ranks, Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze. As for how this system works, it’s still unclear, as Steam hasn’t explained it directly yet, but whatever, here are the Platinum games for each category.
Bestsellers:
- Grand Theft Auto V
- Death by the light of day
- PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds
- Apex Legends
- New world
- Dota 2
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
- Rainbow Six: Siege
- Destiny 2
- Battlefield 2042
- Valheim
- Naraka: The tip of the blade
New versions:
- Age of Empires IV
- Forza Horizon 5
- Battlefield 2042
- Resident Evil Village
- Riders
- Infinite halo
- Farming Simulator 22
- Naraka: The tip of the blade
- Valheim
- Mass Effect Legendary Edition
- Back 4 Blood
- New world
Most played:
- PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds
- Grand Theft Auto V
- New world
- Infinite halo
- Rust
- Dota 2
- Apex Legends
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Valheim
Early Access Graduates:
- Chernobylite
- breath
- Subnautica: below zero
- Fully accurate combat simulator
- Endzone: a world apart
- Solasta: crown of the magisterium
- GTFO
- Wild myth
- Skul: the hero slayer
- Draw and guess
- Medieval dynasty
- Hell let loose
The best of virtual reality:
- In the radius
- Hot dogs, horseshoes and hand grenades
- Super hot VR
- Pavlov
- Blade & Sorcery
- Frame
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR
- Half-life: Alyx
- Arizona Sun
- VR Kanojo
- Beat the saber
- The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners
User-friendly controller:
- Grand Theft Auto V
- FIFA 22
- eFootball 2022
- Infinite halo
- Tales of the Ascension
- Forza Horizon 5
- The Bond of Isaac: Rebirth
- Apex Legends
- Guilty Gear
- Monster hunter world
- Cyberpunk 207
- FIFA 21
You can check out the full list of games and categories here.