$90 Cosmetics, Zero Reviews: Path of Exile 2's New Revenue Push
Four new cosmetic bundles landed on Steam's New Releases chart for a game that hasn't officially launched yet. The top tier costs $89.99.
Four new cosmetic bundles landed on Steam's New Releases chart for a game that hasn't officially launched yet. The top tier costs $89.99.
Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection is #2 on Steam's Top Sellers chart at 67% off. Only 842 people are actually playing it. Sony's discount-driven PC strategy in a nutshell.
$166.87 in DLC, bundled for $49.43, sitting at #8 on Steam's Top Sellers with literally zero user reviews. The economics of back-catalog bundling don't require social proof — just aggressive pricing and good timing.
The top negative review for Paradox's new $9.99 EU5 DLC quotes placeholder text shipped in the live game: "TODO: add desc." Players also report frame rates cratering to 10 FPS on basic interactions.
Half a million copies in three days. Thirty-six thousand concurrent players. And the top review reads like a confession: 'i can stop whenever i want, i just dont want to.' A $5 co-op casino crawler is dominating Steam, and the math is brutal.
Two games, same price, same chart neighborhood. Far Far West is at 97% positive with 27K concurrent players. Farever, one spot below, has a top review that reads: 'Terrible Performance on a game that looks like it could be from 10 years ago.'
Four reviews, zero positives. The top one opens with a confession: they bought it for the schadenfreude. Dovetail Games' latest Train Sim World 6 add-on delivers MS Paint textures at $5.99 a pop.
93% positive reviews, a #7 Top Sellers slot, and players are absolutely obsessed with "Chainsaw Woman." MOTORSLICE didn't waste its Steam Featured Win.
103,243 concurrent players, 93% positive reviews, and 145 million runs logged — two months into Early Access. For a sequel to one of Steam's highest-rated games, the numbers are staggering. The 4% gap between 'Very Positive' and 'Overwhelmingly Positive' tells you everything about the burden of following a near-perfect original.
6,780 concurrent players, 93% Positive reviews, and Steam's Featured Win spotlight on day one. For a debut Early Access title, that's not a launch — that's a coronation.
Zero reviews. Zero players. Valve's new Steam Controller still hit #1 on Steam's global best-seller chart — then sold out in 30 minutes. Scalpers are already asking $400 on eBay.
$20.99. 47% positive. 50,000 people playing right now. The EA Sports FC discount machine works — even if the game doesn't.
Baldur's Gate 3 hits its lowest Steam price ever at $44.99. The top negative review comes from someone with 96 hours logged who calls it unplayable.
98% positive from nearly 16,000 Steam reviews. A brand-new IP in an era that punishes new IP. And Capcom already dropped two other critical darlings this year. The studio is running away with 2026.
94,336 reviews at 96% positive, $9.99 on sale, and 12,468 concurrent players in 2026. Meanwhile, its sequel peaked at 370. This is what a Steam evergreen looks like.
32 reviews, 32 positive. A retro micro-FPS from one developer just landed Steam's Featured Win slot — and its health bar is literally leaking.
Zero players, zero reviews, and five spots in Steam's top ten. EA's $0.99 FC Points pack isn't a game — it's a revenue engine outselling almost everything else on the platform.
Zero reviews, zero players, one very creative job application. A developer turned their CV into a first-person walking sim and published it on the world's largest PC gaming platform.
Trickshot Tactics launched at a discount with no tutorial and nobody to play against. Its only reviewer asked a fair question: how are you supposed to hit the ball?
Nine reviews, nine thumbs-up, zero negative. A solo developer's 40-minute PS1-style horror game is quietly running a perfect record on Steam — for less than a cup of coffee.