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CHARTS: Manor Lords debuts at No.2 on Steam

CHARTS: Manor Lords debuts at No.2 on Steam

Medieval strategy game Manor Lords has started life at second place on Steam.

The title launched on April 26th and has already shifted over one million copies having previously had three million Wishlists. The No.1 spot goes once again to Valve's own Counter-Strike 2.

The PC giant also has third and fourth place locked up; the former goes to the its Steam Deck hardware, which holds onto its place from last week, while Dota 2 drops two positions to No.4. Apex Legends shoots back up the charts from tenth to fifth on the back of the Urban Assault collection event.

Helldivers 2 drops two places to No.6, coming in ahead of PUBG: Battlegrounds, which has fallen from sixth to seventh week-on-week. Fallout 76 is still in the Steam Top Ten following the success of the Amazon TV show, while Fallout 4 falls out of the charts and sits at No.12.

Dead Island 2 has finally made its debut on Steam one year after its initial launch. The Dambusters-developed Plaion-published zombie romp was released in April 2023, but was an Epic Games Store exclusive on PC up until now. That game has come in at No.9.

Rounding off the Steam Top Ten is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

Here is the Steam Top Ten for the week ending April 30th:

1. Counter-Strike 2, Valve
2. Manor Lords, Hooded Horse
3. Steam Deck, Valve
4. Dota 2, Valve
5. Apex Legends, EA
6. Helldivers 2, PlayStation
7. PUBG: Battlegrounds, Krafton
8. Fallout 76, Bethesda
9. Dead Island 2, Plaion
10. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Activision

Disclaimer: Alex Calvin is a freelance writer who has worked with Dambusters and Plaion on The Art of Dead Island 2


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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.