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CHARTS: PUBG is back at No.1 on Steam

CHARTS: PUBG is back at No.1 on Steam

Battle royale giant PUBG: Battlegrounds was the highest grossing game on Steam last week. 

The shoot shot up four places to No.1 thanks to a recent sales event, as well as its Summer Bikini event. It comes in ahead of Valve's smash hit MOBA Dota 2, which rose up from No.14 to second place due to the launch of the Crownfall Collectors Cache launching alongside The Frosts of Icewrack content. This features some of the game's most beloved item sets. 

The First Descendant drops from No.1 to third place as launch hype dissipates. The free-to-play title has been downloaded over 10 million times since its release. 

Valve's Counter-Strike 2 and Steam Deck each dropped by one place to fourth and fifth respectively, while Elden Ring fell from second to sixth week-on-week as the discount for the action RPG ended. The recently-released Shadow of the Erdtree DLC also fell from seventh to tenth to found off the charts. 

Apex Legends rose up from No.23 to seventh, coming in ahead of newly-released survival title Once Human, which debuted at No.8. Baldur's Gate 3 fell from sixth to ninth. 

Here is the Steam Top Ten for the week ending July 16th: 

1. PUBG: Battlegrounds, Krafton 
2. Dota 2, Valve
3. The First Descendant, Nexon 
4. Counter-Strike 2, Valve
5. Steam Deck, Valve
6. Elden Ring, Bandai Namco
7. Apex Legends, EA
8. Once Human, Starry Studio
9. Baldur's Gate, Larian Studios
10. Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, Bandai Namco 


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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.