Baldur’s Gate 3 was the best-selling PC game of 2023

2023 was an excellent year for video game releases across the board. That said, the PC market in particular thrived last year, breaking a whole bunch of records. One of the platform’s greatest success stories was Baldur’s Gate 3, with the surprise hit not only selling the most copies, but also generating the highest revenue.

VGinsights have released their annual report for the global PC games market, breaking down sales, revenue, peak players and more. The full report can be accessed HERE, but some of the most interesting revelations include the fact that the PC market broke many of its own records last year, with 2023 seeing the “highest ever revenues, units sold, peak players online and number of games released on Steam.”

Though we reported on it previously, Steam saw its total concurrent users peak at 33.6 million players. New revelations however include the fact that of the record-breaking 14,000 new games released on Steam last year, only 5% have made over $100,000 in revenue so far – with just 930 titles generating over $1 million.

That said, the platform also had a good number of huge successes with 20 new titles in total raking in over $50 million. Speaking of PC success stories, VGinsights shared the top 10 best-selling titles on PC both in terms of revenue and total units sold.

Despite being a full-priced premium title, the award-winning Baldur’s Gate 3 managed to not only make the greatest amount of revenue, but even beat out free-to-play games for the best-performing title by total units – an impressive feat indeed. The rest of the top 10 best-sellers by revenue is as follows:

1. Baldur’s Gate 3
2. Hogwarts Legacy
3. Starfield
4. Resident Evil 4
5. Sons Of The Forest
6. ARMORED CORE VI
7. EA SPORTS FC 24
8. STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor
9. Lethal Company
10. Cities: Skylines II

The full 15-paged report (including exactly how they calculated the best-sellers list) can be found HERE.

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KitGuru says: What did you think of the PC market in 2023? Are you surprised by the best-sellers? What was your favourite purchase in 2023? Let us know down below.

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