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CHARTS: Baldur's Gate 3 dethrones CSGO to take Steam No.1

CHARTS: Baldur's Gate 3 dethrones CSGO to take Steam No.1

Newly-released RPG Baldur's Gate 3 was the biggest selling title by revenue last week on Steam.

The title, developed by Larian Studios, outperformed long-running best-seller Counter-Stike: Global Offensive, which falls to second place. Baldur's Gate 3 is off to a great start, having shifted 2.5 million during its Early Access phase. The game has hit a peak of 814,666 concurrent players already, according to SteamDB.

The newly-combined Call of Duty, which puts Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone in once place, was the third best-seller of the week. Remnant 2 drops two places to No.4, while Apex Legends falls from fourth to fifth.

Valve's Steam Deck hardware drops one place to No.6, while the fifth season of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2's content makes its debut in the Steam Top Ten. NetEase's free-to-play battle royale Naraka: Bladepoint rose one place to No.8, coming in ahead of American Truck Simulator. That title, from SCS Software, returns to the Top Ten thanks to a 75 per cent price cut following the release of the new W900 Tuning Pack.

Meanwhile, pre-orders for the upcoming ambitious sci-fi RPG Starfield, round off the Top Ten.

Here is the Steam Top Ten for the week ending August 8th:

1. Baldur's Gate 3, Larian Studios
2. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Valve
3. Call of Duty, Activision
4. Remnant 2, Gearbox Publishing
5. Apex Legends, EA
6. Steam Deck, Valve
7. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 – BlackCell (Season 5), Activision
8. Naraka: Bladepoint, NetEase
9. American Truck Simulator, SCS Software
10. Starfield, Bethesda (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.