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CHARTS: Elden Ring has been No.1 on Steam for five weeks

CHARTS: Elden Ring has been No.1 on Steam for five weeks

Action RPG smash hit Elden Ring is once again the best-selling title on Steam.

The title debuted back on February 25th and has taken its fifth No.1 on Valve's platform. The game has shifted over 12 million copies to date.

Second place once again goes to Valve's own Steam Deck hardware, which comes ahead of another non-mover, EA's It Takes Two. That title holds steady in third place.

The No.4 spot goes to Bethesda's new IP Ghostwire: Tokyo following its March 25th release date. This new franchise is from Shinji Mikami's Tango Gameworks. Pre-orders for the title were also the eighth highest seller of the week.

Valve's Index VR headset rises one place week-on-week to fifth, while Core Keeper drops to No.6. That title has sold more than 500,000 copies in the first two weeks after its release.

Dread Hunger from Digital Confectioners rises two places to seventh, while Red Dead Redemption 2 drops two spots to No.9. Rounding off the Top Ten is the newly-released LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga from Warner Bros.

Here is the Steam Top Ten for the week ending March 26th:

1. Elden Ring, Bandai Namco
2. Steam Deck, Valve
3. It Takes Two, EA
4. Ghostwire: Tokyo, Bethesda
5. Valve Index VR Kit, Valve
6. Core Keeper, Fireshine
7. Dread Hunger, Digital Confectioners
8. Ghostwire: Tokyo – Pre-order, Bethesda
9. Red Dead Redemption 2, Rockstar
10. LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, Warner Bros


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Alex Calvin is a freelance journalist who writes about the business of games. He started out at UK trade paper MCV in 2013 and left as deputy editor over three years later. In June 2017, he joined Steel Media as the editor for new site PCGamesInsider.biz. In October 2019 he left this full-time position at the company but still contributes to the site on a daily basis. He has also written for GamesIndustry.biz, VGC, Games London, The Observer/Guardian and Esquire UK.