City-builder sensation Manor Lords has broken genre records on Steam, selling more than one million copies a little over a day after launch.
09.04.2024 - 12:15 / pcgamesinsider.biz
Co-op horror title Content Warning was the fifth biggest seller on Steam last week.
The game is the latest surprise hit on the platform, in part thanks to its free-to-keep model. Content Warning launched on April 1st – outside of this week's chart data – with players able to claim the game for free in its first 24 hours. After that, it went back to its regular price of $7.99. This has helped Content Warning attract a playerbase of over six million people almost overnight, something that has prompted the title to receive a lot of attention from the influencer community.
First place once again went to Counter-Strike 2, while Helldivers 2 retains the No.2 spot. Valve's Steam Deck hardware rose up two places to third, charting ahead of Call of Duty. Activision's shooter has returned to the Top Ten thanks to the launch of the Black Cell (Season 3) DLC for Modern Warfare 3. That content made its debut in eighth following its April 3rd release.
Battle royale hits PUBG: Battlegrounds and Apex Legends both dropped down the rankings this week; the former fell from fourth to sixth, while the latter slipped four places to No.7. Cyberpunk 2077 also made a return to the Top Ten in ninth, up two positions week-on-week.
Rounding off the Top Ten this week is Bethesda's The Elder Scrolls Online, which shot up from No.36 to tenth thanks to a 75 per cent to celebrate the game's tenth anniversary.
Here is the Steam Top Ten for the week ending April 9th:
1. Counter-Strike 2, Valve
2. Helldivers 2, PlayStation
3. Steam Deck, Valve
4. Call of Duty, Activision
5. Content Warning, Landfall
6. PUBG: Battlegrounds, Krafton
7. Apex Legends, EA
8. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - Blackcell (Season 3), Activision
9. Cyberpunk 2077, CD Projekt
10. The Elder Scrolls Online, Bethesda
City-builder sensation Manor Lords has broken genre records on Steam, selling more than one million copies a little over a day after launch.
Cygames has detailed the new content coming in updates 1.2.0 and 1.3.0 of Granblue Fantasy: Relink. In addition to adding two new characters to the robust cast of Granblue Fantasy: Relink, the updates bring improvements to existing characters, bug fixes, and new quest additions.
Facepunch Studios has received takedown notices from Nintendo and is currently in the process of removing all Garry's Mod content related to IP owned by the platform holder.
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Arrowhead has a steady line it needs to walk with Helldivers 2. The developer needs to ensure it both fixes any bugs (not Terminids, the glitchy kind) while also adding new featurs and content to the game in order to «stay relevant».
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Helldivers 2's popularity is still sky-high, but more and more demands have been flooding in lately for developer Arrowhead to put a greater focus on squashing bugs rather than adding new content, something which the devs have pointed out isn't exactly straightforward. It's rather ironic, really, given the game's massive focus on killing democracy-hating bugs.
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