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CHARTS: Star Wars Jedi Survivor debuts at No.2 on Steam

CHARTS: Star Wars Jedi Survivor debuts at No.2 on Steam

EA's new Star Wars title, Jedi: Survivor, was the second biggest seller on Steam last week.

The game debuted on April 28th and came in at No.2 after pre-orders clocked in at fifth place the previous week. That's despite widespread reports of poor performance that publisher EA has addressed. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive once again was the biggest earner on Steam, while Valve's hardware dropped two places to No.4.

EA's battle royale Apex Legends rose six places week-on-week, likely off the back of hype surrounding the upcoming 17th season – Arsenal – which includes a wealth of updates and a brand new playable character.

The fifth highest selling game on Steam last week was Catfood Studio's 雀魂麻将(MahjongSoul), which is only available in China. PUBG: Battlegrounds drops two places to No.5, charting ahead of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, which has dropped to seventh from third last week.

Free-to-play military title and colossal security risk War Thunder returns to the Steam Top Ten in eighth place, just ahead of fellow free-to-play title Warframe in the wake of the release of the new Duviri Paradox expansion.

Rounding off the Top Ten are pre-orders for Age of Wonders 4 from Paradox.

Here is the Steam Top Ten for the week ending May 2nd:

1. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Valve
2. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, EA
3. Apex Legends, EA
4. Steam Deck, Valve
5. 雀魂麻将(MahjongSoul), Catfood Studio
6. PUBG: Battlegrounds, Krafton
7. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Activision
8. War Thunder, Gaijin
9. Warframe, Digital Extremes
10. Age of Wonders 4, Paradox (P)


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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.