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CHARTS: New content brings Marvel Rivals back to Steam Top Ten

CHARTS: New content brings Marvel Rivals back to Steam Top Ten

Marvel Rivals is back in the Top Ten on Steam thanks to a raft of new content. 

The super hero, er, hero shooter was the third highest grossing title on the platform last week, shooting up eight spots following the release of its second season of content on April 8th. This includes a new character in Emma Frost. 

Counter-Strike 2 was once again the biggest success on Steam last week, while Early Access crime romp Schedule 1 held down second place for the second week in a row. Valve's Steam Deck hardware took the No.4 spot for another week, coming in ahead of PUBG: Battlegrounds which shot up 14 positions to fifth. Co-op horror romp REPO dropped three positions to No.6, making more money than Red Dead Redemption 2 in seventh. Rockstar's cowboy adventure rose up six places week-on-week thanks to a massive 75 per cent discount. 

A raft of improvements bring Elon Musk's, er, favourite game, Path of Exile 2, back into the Top Ten in eighth place, while a 20 per cent discount caused Baldur's Gate 3 to rise up a massive 26 spots to ninth. 

Monster Hunter Wilds fell three spots to round off the Top Ten. 

Here is the Steam Top Ten for the week ending April 15th: 

1. Counter-Strike 2, Valve
2. Schedule 1, TVGS
3. Marvel Rivals, NetEase
4. Steam Deck, Valve
5. PUBG: Battlegrounds, Krafton 
6. REPO, Semiwork
7. Red Dead Redemption 2, Rockstar
8. Path of Exile 2, Grinding Gear
9. Baldur's Gate 3, Larian Studios
10. Monster Hunter Wilds, Capcom 


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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.