More than 228 million US dollars in revenue were generated during the Steam Summer Sale 2016.
After this year’s Steam Summer Sale ended 3 days ago, some Steam users are still trying to patch up their wallets that were hit during the sale days. Did you also take advantage this year and buy games on sale? Don’t worry, you’re not alone – According to a statistic from Steam Spy, the revenue figures have clearly increased compared to last year.
Indie game “Limbo” sold over 1 million copies
Sergey Galyonkin from Steam Spy hopes to be able to create a more accurate list of the Steam Sale changes over the past years in the coming days. Current research shows the games that were sold the most. The big winner on this list is the dark indie game “Limbo”, which, however, was not discounted during the Steam Summer Sale 2016 but was available for free shortly before the sale.
Limbo is the only game that sold over 1 million copies during the sale – If you haven’t seen or tried the game yet, be sure to check out gameplay material or download the free Limbo demo on Steam. The game definitely provides a change of pace if you’re usually playing current games like Overwatch or The Division.
Update: In the meantime, Sergey Galyonkin has revised his data and suspects that the high “sales” of the game were boosted by the free offer just before the sale. Of course, the game was also purchased during the sale – However, it is difficult to differentiate here.
The Top 10 Games of This Year’s Summer Sale
Overall, the Steam Sale this year made 228 million US dollars in revenue – Last summer it was 160 million US dollars. A total of about 4 million more games were sold. In the top 10 list of the best-selling games during the Steam Summer Sale 2016 are, for example, GTA 5 or Dead By Daylight. In the following list, you can see not only how many players the respective games had before and after the sale, but also how much the games were discounted and what their meta score is on Steam. Did you buy games that are on this list?
This information comes from the Steam Spy website and is not official information from Steam.
