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CHARTS: Assassin's Creed Shadows debuts at No.2 on Steam

CHARTS: Assassin's Creed Shadows debuts at No.2 on Steam

The latest entry in the Assassin's Creed franchise was the second highest-grossing game on Steam last week. 

Shadows came in at No.2 last week following its March 20th release date; the title has brought in over two million copies to date, according to publisher Ubisoft. There are also reports that 27 per cent of "activation" for Assassin's Creed Shadows came from PC, thanks to Steam and Ubisoft's own subscription service. 

Once again, counter-Strike 2 was the biggest-selling game on Steam, while multiplayer horror romp REPO was bumped down one spot to third week-on-week. Co-op horror title Split Fiction also dropped down one position to fourth, coming in ahead of Valve's Steam Deck hardware in fifth. 

Capcom's Monster Hunter Wilds fell two positions to sixth, while Cyberpunk 2077 held onto seventh thanks to its 60 per cent price cut. The Steam Spring sale helped bring Helldivers 2 back into the Top Ten in eighth – up 21 spots week-on-week. Incidentally, that's the same number of positions that Warframe rose up to take ninth. 

Rounding off the Top Ten is Fragpunk, which rose one spot to return to the charts. 

Here is the Steam Top Ten for the week ending March 25th: 

1. Counter-Strike 2, Valve
2. Assassin's Creed Shadows, Ubisoft
3. REPO, Semiwork 
4. Split Fiction, EA
5. Steam Deck, Valve
6. Monster Hunter Wilds, Capcom 
7. Cyberpunk 2077, CD Projekt
8. Helldivers 2, PlayStation 
9. Warframe, Digital Extremes
10. FragPunk, Bad Guitar 


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