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CHARTS: Farming Simulator 25 ploughs to No.2 on Steam

CHARTS: Farming Simulator 25 ploughs to No.2 on Steam

The latest entry in Giants Software Farming Simulator franchise was the second highest-grossing title on Steam last week. 

The game launched on November 12th and pre-orders for the title clocked in at No.10 last week. Counter-Strike 2 returned to the top spot after a few weeks away, while last week's No.1 – PUBG: Battlegrounds – dropped down to third. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 fell from No.3 to fourth week-on-week as the shooter approaches a month on shelves, while the Call of Duty platform shot up from No.91 to seventh. 

Valve's Steam Deck hardware held, coming in ahead of pre-orders for GSC Game World's STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl, which rose up from sixth to No.16 week-on-week. The title is set to launch tomorrow (November 20th). 

EA Sports FC 25 rose three places to No.8, outperforming the newly-released Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake, which launched on Square Enix. Amazon and NCSoft's MMO Throne and Liberty rounded off the Steam Top Ten. 

Here is the Steam Top Ten for the week ending November 19th: 

1. Counter-Strike 2, Valve
2. Farming Simulator 25, Giants Software
3. PUBG: Battlegrounds, Krafton 
4. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Activision 
5. Steam Deck, Valve
6. STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl, GSC Game World
7. Call of Duty, Activision 
8. EA Sports FC 25, EA
9. Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake, Square Enix
10. Throne and Liberty, Amazon 


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