I am so happy for the guy who made Lethal company, he made such a cool game for people to just have wacky fun together and it got so big, must feel amazing.
@@sergioajbs1840 You're expecting way too much from a person who built a game that blew up. He is good at making a game but not necessarily in building a business.
Still, it'd be nice to see him hire at leat one or two guys, its not like it'd be hard to pay them for a couple years on some updates and still have enough to retire on.@@tuckerstevens9689
Just goes to show that you don't need big budget or AAA quality to do well. Lethal Company dude must be feeling like he's on top of the world right now. Congrats to him!
@@Tallborn5 Humbled? There are 6 AAA games on that list, if you don't count BG3. What are you talking about? Not to mention these are just sales. AAA are in it for post-sale revenue.
This is like winning lottery, you can't guarantee that your game will be recognized even it's a high quality product. With so much games on the market you can probably find 1 or 2 that will pop out :(
@@eb2681 Diablo 2, Starcraft and World of Warcraft trump Bioware even if they were still very strong in the 90s and 00s. Despite WoW falling off because of creative decisions, it is still the standard in the MMO genre.
@@chrisjones658It is quite the opposite of standard. Nowadays, a tab target festival such as WoW is quite niche. However, it is one of the very few that can hook up casual and non-gamers.
@@leoleo1035 yes but at one time it had 12 million active subs and that was in 2010. Practically unheard of. It's not quite CS GO levels today but CS GO is also free-to-play. Imagine CS GO being buy to play AND costing $/£10 per month and it maintaining popularity for years. People played WoW back then in great numbers despite a box price, an expansion price AND A sub because it was at least 10 years ahead of its time. It was not niche at all.
People would go to a Fyre Festival even knowing what it'd be like just to experience the chaos with a bunch of bros. Starfield is like that in video game form.
Half of that is Tax...lol and since he's one man dev. He won't have many business expense to cut on those number as well but still massive massive earning for 21yo. He's deserved it
@@mukamuka0even with taxes and development cost, let's say 60% of the revenue, if he makes good investments and is careful with his spending that dude is pretty much set for life.
@@talizorahnarrayya5916 me and my friend did the math last week on this actually. If I were to randomly have just a SINGLE MILLION dollars, if i did not change my spending habits at all, i could VERY comfortably live (I stay outside atlanta in georgia, US) for over another 40 years before 'running out'. That guy is FAR MORE than set if he's smart with the money lol. - my current spending is around 2.2k a month regularly , barring any emergencies. This is also not counting any extra revenue and assuming i'm sitting on my behind not working haha or investing etc.
I would be more surprised if they don't make one, many of the dev clearly love the series and with that kind of revenue they can justify making more. Even if it doesn't come close to Elden Ring, it's better for studios to have multiple series so they can fall back on something if their main one flop. Plus, considering his reputation, by now Miyazaki can probably get a project approved with "trust me bro" as the sole argument.
Damn, 657 million dollars. I remember when they launched the DOS 2 kickstarter and got 2.5 million in the end. That's a complete shift in revenue. I trust Swen and the team to keep their heads cool and move on to the next project with the same mindset as before. We need studios like this more than ever.
"Single player games are dead, nobody wants them any more, extinct dinosaurs!" - Some dumbass at EA still trying to make DOA live service money platforms a thing
If BG3's sales and reception aren't a wake up call for developers, I don't know what is. Look at what a _CRPG_ accomplished. Imagine if studios applied that level of love and detail to genres that the majority of people actually play.
@@IncognitoActivado Bro you can fuck a bear in Baldur's Gate no one cares. I expect some devs to continue milking that whole unrealistic expectations and release half asses games. looking at you blizzard 👀
@@IncognitoActivado Calling games woke is a way to justify your prejudice and bigotry if it doesn't cater to straight male powers and sexual fantasises. Not everybody wants muscular guy characters fighting stuff buddy. Give me a cute boy with flowers in his hair watering crops in stardew valley.
There are tons of devs who put all their heart&soul into the games. Just not the tripple A studios, at least most of them. So just don't buy their shit, support Indie companies, and you're good.
I havent even played it yet and it's provided me like 5 hours of amazing TikTok videos. Seriously some of the most funny gameplay videos I've ever seen (and ive been around) @@tryharderpls
it costs 10 bucks because it's not a big game. It's a looter extraction with horror. These games are very popular with streamers, so ofc it got attention, but the game is as fun as a rock.
@@dreyga2 I have to agree, pretty much any game is fun with friends and this one relies entirely on interactions meant to create these "me and the Bois" moments. when you look at the game by itself, you drop onto a map, grab item and bring back to ship, while avoiding monsters, a premise that has been done 100 times before by various indie titles to no success. add multiplayer and proximity voice and suddenly it's multiplayer game of the year. which, btw only features 3 player multiplayer for some god forsaken reason, more than 3 requires a mod that wasn't created by the dev.
@@tyrant3191 I watched a streamer play it, for 30 min or so. My god, is it boring. On youtube tho, different story, funny moments, very entertaining when edited.
@@tyrant3191 The game is popular precisely because it is designed to create those fun multiplayer moments as much as possible. Of course it's boring by yourself. Just admit you and/or your friends aren't fun.
@@NanomachineExE i feel like it may oddly be the opposite actually because so many people were following starfield development for years getting absolutely hyped for it and ended up getting swindled with their purchase. and all the casuals who weren't really paying attention got to wait for the reviews to come out and dust to settle before making a purchase.
Or Harry Potter has a massive built in audience, and the game was genuinely beautiful and worth playing. Story lacked a bit of depth, but it was a solid game.
That's just it ,its simply beautiful especially the castle everything aside from it is very generic and mediocre to the point it feels like an Ubisoft game
7 out 10 games, including the top 4, are all single-player story driven games. I feel like you can tattoo this on every boardmember's face in every major gaming corp and they still won't see how that is the best option for revenue. It's so frustrating sometimes.
What I think is funny is it’s Revenue total. So AAA games that go from $60-120 got beat by some games that cost 10-40. Lethal company being top 10, when it’s only 10 dollars. That’s saying ALOT.
It's steam only, AAA games makes bank in consoles and I'm not even talking about mobile games. Please remind yourself that you represent less than 10% of gaming.
@@birdbig6852 mobile has like 4 max good games, it’s mostly whale boomers and no money kids watching ads. Consoles are like the same 10 games sold yearly. This chart was only box cost revenue, not micro transactions. It’d be totally different with I dunno blizz games lmao bleeding people dry.
@@birdbig6852 what ass did you pull that statistic from lol? for example, 44% of Elden Ring sales is PC. PS5+PS4 sold less combined than PC. Please remind yourself that you live in delulu land.
best dlc would be you go to another school on a foreign exchange year to learn their unique magic. I would suggest the African school of shapeshifting magic.
My guess with Starfield is you had a lot of folks that bought into the hype or thought the modders would quickly sort it out. Hogwarts Legacy being that high makes sense but BG3 selling that much surprises me, I thought more people did what I did and bought it during the early access part.
Nope. Never heard of it until my friend told me about it. I even saw the first trailer when it released, assumed aliens vs fantasy was silly idea and completly forgot about it. I only now remeber that I did in fact watch it.
I and most of my friends didn't really know about this game until it came out, even tho I am big RPGs fan. I thought that talk about all of those decisions and freedom is typical buzzword soup and only after 'borrowing' BG3 for 30 hours I couldn't take the guilt, so I bought Deluxe Edition. I learned to not believe how great a game is, till it's released from AAA studios.
oh not at all BG3 was a niche game until the bear sex campaign hit and all the streamers started picking it up. From that point on it just became a cultural phenomenon. I'm actually most impressed with Starfield, considering the vast majority of people playing it did so on Game Pass. Even with it getting snubbed at the awards show and most people online taking that populist stance of hating on it, God Howard continues to be successful.
@@hadoken95 I heard somewhere that emphasizing that bear sex scene was the best marketing idea for BG3. Not because most people want that, Larian's internal numbers suggest they don't, but because it made the game look like it had a lot of freedom, made then ask, "if I can do *that* what else can I do?"
yeah but the thing is if it costed 60$ for an amongus-type "with the boys" game, there would be a LOT less people buying it. the 10$ price point is what helped it get that high
I'm not surprised. The average Harry Potter fan probably didn't know there was a boycott and wouldn't have cared if they did know. They just knew the thing they really liked had a game so they bought it. Simple as.
The funniest part is that anyone who has played any hp game knows they are mediocre at best so they are overlooked most of the time. The boycott brought more people to buy the game due to attention lmao
Wait, what?! Baldur's Gate 3 is both of those. Sure, Hogwarts got 2nd in revenue and is very popular itself, it wasn't GOTY on Steam, that was definitely BG3.
The success of Lethal Company is great to see because it's another reminder that a great game doesn't need ray-tracing, or 500 GB worth of stuff to be great. Most of the time, a game just needs to be fun and not a buggy mess
my god, lethal company just get into early access about 5 months ago. man, now I'm worried about the dev, hope he got a strong integrity. worst case scenario, he'll spent half on furry suit.
It is extra impressive that Baldur's Gate earned so much without having tons of DLCs and locked content, so it earned that much by asking quite little from the players
Considering that Baldurs Gate cost 6 times the ammount Lethal Company does... If we put that in comparrison Lethal Company be actually second place if it had the same price. Or 3rd. That's actually crazy. And ew Cities is last place. It shouldn't even be on the list.
Lethal Company deserves the success. It alone completely shattered the entire idea of having better graphics = good game mentality amongst the higher AAA gaming industries. To make an average-looking game that generates more than $50 million profits is proof that gamers only want simple, playable and fun game to play with, more than the beautiful graphics but filled with loading screens and dialogues - which makes people fall asleep faster than counting sheeps over your head. Congratulations and good job to the developer of Lethal Company. Hope more indie devs comes out with brilliant games this year just like Among Us and Lethal Company.
I dont get the appeal. game looks incredibly boring like it's cool that just one dude made it but that doesn't change the fact that this game doesn't look the slightest bit fun and that's the only thing that matters
i wouldn't say lethal's graphics are bad, but the majority of gamers affiliate good graphics with 1:1 realistic graphics where you can see the each individual pores of each npcs or whatknot. like lethal, you dont need to have that for 'good graphics' if you know how the make it feel good and set the atmosphere right. you've got it there.
@@kunstlerischesetwas1284 or i just dont find the game interesting enough to convince me to try it. i know i know, its outlandish that someone doesnt hop on the bandwagon. shocking right? i like how you dont have anything constructive to say so you have to resort to me insulting me. really shows your character lmao
@@konata8657 Its actually not that deep, there is no constructive criticism to give, its your opinion. This just doesn't change the fact that you judge the game only on a Gameplay standpoint, which is hilarious because it just shows that you never really understood why people actually play the game. Your just an Edge lord, who thinks hes cool because he has a different opinion regarding a popular game. Its okay for you not to play the game, but saying that it has no appeal to it and looking boring just tells me enough about the amount of content you have watched about this Game: Zero. So yes, i make Fun of you, because your opinion is pretty much based on nothing.
most innovative game of the year: starfield meanwhile in starfield: imagine if instead of having all the towns/outposts in 1 massive area, we put each one on an empty planet, and have players just scan the same 20 mobs 100 times over. also, lets give them a jetpack.
Keeping in mind lethal company is not even a fully realized game and hasn't been out long at all. good for that guy, cool that he hasn't abandoned ship after making absolute bank
Thing is BG3 will continue selling throughout 2024 and i am sure Larian Studio is working on more content for it, it's confirmed. They could cross a billion this year
Rogue Trader needs more attention! But yea Baldurs gate 3 and Armored core were super awesome. Starfield making over 200m on steam...yikes. Bethesda keeps getting away with it T_T
I enjoyed Dead Space and Resident Evil 4 remakes a lot but they don’t compare with the absolute joy I had with Hogwarts Legacy. I played like 12 hours over the weekends for 3 months and I loved every minute of it.
Lethal Company making 52 Million when the game only costs 10 dollars is the real winner here. All of the other games had huge budgets and cost far more to make and their price tag for players was higher too. Baldurs Gate really isn't a fair comparison to the other games, since people have known about it longer, so the hype was growing long before 2023. It had a chance to make money all year long, while the other games came out in 2023 and had a smaller window to make that money. For it being an RPG, yeah it being so popular is phenomenal, but it really doesn't have any competition. 2023 was a bad year for games, not a lot of good stuff came out.
It's nice to see Baldur's Gate 3 at the top of the list. It's sad to see generic triple A trash on the next two spots, but at least Gold has gone to those who deserve it.
Hogwarts was surprisingly great tho. So many details that did bot have to be there. The devs clearly put heart into it. Starfield on the other hand....
baldurs gate 3 did proof whats wrong whit gaming and its rly high quality but nothing can beat that one game everybody has fun in whit their friends because gameplay is just fun and not bloated. the game is just like: "here you go, here the objective, this are the few mechanics surounding it, now here are the places to fulfil that goal and now have fun working together to avo- getting enough stuff for the goal. btw i give you some items for your efforts if you do a good job whit the goal! just dont die ok? :) * vanishes before you can ask questions *"
Again - incredibly surprised that RE remaster got a nom for GOTY but Hogwarts didn't. I don't think it should have won, but it def deserved to be in the running more than a remaster. Hell, if a remaster deserve a nom then Phantom Liberty deserves one as at least that was new content.
That and Super Mario spin-off that dropped like a mere week before the Awards to a much quieter reception than Hogwarts Legacy. Also up till that point I had only heard of Alan Wake in ads. Still haven't seen an actual person that knows what it even is.
@@cattysplatWhich is strange because there is a trans person in the game. The girl (or dude?) with the deep male voice. Honestly it broke my immersion and took me out of the game every time I heard him speak.
Starfield sold a lot because of its early access. Im one of the idiots that bought it because I thought it would be a hit for sure. Everything I had seen had me hyped. And with the early access, I could play it during a weekend instead of weekday which is a whole lot more difficult for me. Incredible disappointment, but I still dont get how it made those sales because I returned mine, and then just went and played a bit more on gamepass later.
i dodged the starfield bullet since i was still busy with my BG3 playthrough and figured i'd wait for the dust to settle. in that sense BG3 paid for itself.
I figure the same maybe the 200million is from people that bought it, but 150million was returned back, but they don't count the money lost only gained lmao. I know I returned it and didn't even do the full 2 hours.
"Starfield sold a lot because of its early access" - no. It sold a lot because they lied, just like most AAA studios. They invest a lot in trailers to lie to people. 16 times the details Cyberpunk did the same and some people now think it's a good game, when in fact it's the same crap game, but with fewer bugs and more "content". GTA6 will suffer the same fate.
What's most surprising is how low all these are in terms of revenue on the largest platform for PC games, when you remember that Diablo Immortal made half a billion in a year or that GTA 5 has had about one Baldur's Gate 3 revenue average PER YEAR for the last entire decade. Or that Diablo 4 made the same as Baldur's Gate 3 in 5 days.
The Sole Developer of Lethal Company is sleeping on cash right now. Imagine making your first game and it suddenly blows up, loved by the community! It is indeed a surpising success for him.
Other than his roblox mods he did have a few other creepy type of games released as well, that you should definitely check out if you like that genre. So technically it's not his first game, but certainly the first big one as the previous ones felt like experimentations leading up to this one and also i think we should really admire the creator by how fast he was pumping the updates recently with next 0.50 version being a really big update when it drops. Sadly, knowing how steam payments works, he's most likely won't see any of that money for a month or two, if what i remember is correct, they pay it quarterly or just every 3 months, not 100% sure on this one tho
I completely disagree with the idea that the boycott had any effect at all on the sales. it obviously didnt work but i don't believe that it actually inspired people to buy it to just go against the trend. If anything it sold super well because its simply Harry Potter, one of the biggest franchises in he world, nothing else.
I know at least 5 people irl who bought it purely out of spite and I don’t even think they played the game when it came out. You will find plenty others online with similar stories, boycotts/protests always encourage this kind of behavior
@@jebalitabb8228 I'm not saying that some people didnt do it but those who did it are not that big of a mark to make this the second best-selling game of last year. Lets be realistic, the game sold on its own merit, not just because of a meme.
also remember when those games released. Hogwarts Legacy came out at the beginning of the year while BG3 came out in August and still, BG3 is way above the rest.
But holy shit the MATH on this! BG3 is #1 with TWICE the revenue of the #2 slot, and STILL higher than #2 and #3 combined. And yeah, it's that fucking good. Well deserved.
It still makes me laugh that hogwarts got boycotted for transphobia when it is literally the only game I’ve ever played with a memorable, believable, and well written trans character. She also happened to just be a pretty fucking cool person in general so I couldn’t imagine better representation but the hate for the game because of JK was insane. Glad to see it did well because I really enjoyed it, especially once I found a mod for PC keybindings for spells instead of the action bar flipping
Nothing believable about a trans woman having a deeper voice than 90 percent of men tbh. Also the fact that they want me to believe that there's no way for a person to change their voice in a world where people can shape shift into animals and ride around on magical flying brooms.
@@nighthawk2548 Pretty fair but trans seems to be more of an identity unto itself rather than actually trying to be the opposite gender. Some do try to speak in a different tone but others just don't.
@@nighthawk2548 why not? I’ve known women with deeper voices, especially when they’re smokers. My great grandmother sounded more like a guttural demon than a man much less a woman. And I assumed there are magical ways to hide that, but as everything else with appearance, it’s probably more about accepting yourself than being perfect. I assume there are tons of magical versions of cosmetic surgery, by that logic it should be as popular as everyday makeup
The more surprising reason for Hogwarts Legacy's success is that it is the best selling Ubisoft game that wasn't made by Ubisoft. Who knew you could make a game with all the faults of the Ubisoft game that people have been bashing for years and you only needed two things - make sure your company isn't called Ubisoft, and add brooms.
That's not surprising. Even with Starfield being a pile of shit and all the nonsense around Hogwarts the popularity surrounding them helped push them to the top and Hogwarts being a good game let it pass up Starfield which people only bought because of Skyrim and Bethesda. The rest of the list follows pretty normally but good for Lethal Company for taking number 9.
The funny thing about Hogwart's Legacy is that, besides being visually delicious, it's a very basic game with very predictable twists and puzzles in the dungeons, and the optimization was subpar (mostly because of the DRM...), but the ambience, specially for fans of the saga, was spot on. BG3 however, I'm not that happy with the lv cap just because further spells "break the game", considering how many D&D games came before and shied not from allowing even limited epic magic.
Man i wish i had any kind of passion for coding and programming but i have literally 0 patience or nerves for it. The guy who made lethal company definitely deserves that cash
I'm really happy for Baldurs Gate 3 and its developers even if I didn't like the game. Just the sheer joy for single player RPGgame that was made with a passion.
@@ryanbaker5296 bad optimization in third act, meh plot (that basically ends in act 2), meh characters (who are so horny it cringe), boring battles (in third act mostly). I wouldn't call it a bad game tho, I just didn't like it.
Hogwarts Legacy being #2 when it's a very, VERY average game. Good job woke people. You literally advertised and hyped the game up to the year's second biggest game lol.
I am so happy for the guy who made Lethal company, he made such a cool game for people to just have wacky fun together and it got so big, must feel amazing.
the dude is not adding enough content, the game is dying fast.
he doesn't care enough to pay people to help him.
@@sergioajbs1840 You're expecting way too much from a person who built a game that blew up. He is good at making a game but not necessarily in building a business.
@@sergioajbs1840 No. Don't want another funky friday shit
Still, it'd be nice to see him hire at leat one or two guys, its not like it'd be hard to pay them for a couple years on some updates and still have enough to retire on.@@tuckerstevens9689
@@sergioajbs1840 and why would he need to add content? these days people want constant updates on games like bruh
I'm actually impressed that Starfield sold as well as it did. I suppose it just works...
Considering this thing was playable for a dollar in the gamepass lmao
it's another "here you go pay us" - god howard
With 16x the detail too!
Media, hypes and promises. This is the triple AAA disappointment way.
Probably people who were waiting for mods to be released for it.
What's really insane about Lethal Company being in the top 10 is that it was only out for 2 months and the game only costs $10.
Mind blowing, well deserved.
so basically multiply it by 7, it sold way more than starfield
Somehow I think it's not in spite of only costing $10, but BECAUSE of it.
Are you missing some zeros, how does a game only cost $10 to make?
game companies should realize that if you set lower prices, more people are likely to buy and you end up making more money
Just goes to show that you don't need big budget or AAA quality to do well. Lethal Company dude must be feeling like he's on top of the world right now. Congrats to him!
I mean ... he is! :D
Larian also wasn't triple A before Baldurs Gate 3 so triple A companies got humbled big time this year.
@@Tallborn5 Humbled? There are 6 AAA games on that list, if you don't count BG3. What are you talking about? Not to mention these are just sales. AAA are in it for post-sale revenue.
This is like winning lottery, you can't guarantee that your game will be recognized even it's a high quality product. With so much games on the market you can probably find 1 or 2 that will pop out :(
Don't forget about the streamers, they also cashed out 😲
So glad Baldur's Gate 3 got the recognition it deserved this year.
@@IncognitoActivadoWake? That's a different game breh
@IncognitoActivado spidermid fan 😂
@@IncognitoActivadoCare to explain?
@@IncognitoActivadoNope. You should develop your own political opinions instead of repeating “woke” like a robot.
@@IncognitoActivado ok, 3 day old account.
I have 500 hours into BG3 already. Worth every penny. Larian is the new Blizzard from the 90s.
Don't you mean Bioware?
@@eb2681 Diablo 2, Starcraft and World of Warcraft trump Bioware even if they were still very strong in the 90s and 00s. Despite WoW falling off because of creative decisions, it is still the standard in the MMO genre.
Huh? Bioware was eating goo from their noses while blizzard already finished up a few games lmao.@@eb2681
@@chrisjones658It is quite the opposite of standard. Nowadays, a tab target festival such as WoW is quite niche. However, it is one of the very few that can hook up casual and non-gamers.
@@leoleo1035 yes but at one time it had 12 million active subs and that was in 2010. Practically unheard of.
It's not quite CS GO levels today but CS GO is also free-to-play. Imagine CS GO being buy to play AND costing $/£10 per month and it maintaining popularity for years.
People played WoW back then in great numbers despite a box price, an expansion price AND A sub because it was at least 10 years ahead of its time. It was not niche at all.
I assume that 235 million dollars was just people wanting to see the Bethesda glitches in action
Honestly at this point I'm just impressed BGS can create consistently buggy games. Like, the literal SAME bugs in their games.
Pre-orders too expecting a good game
People would go to a Fyre Festival even knowing what it'd be like just to experience the chaos with a bunch of bros. Starfield is like that in video game form.
So many coping from this comment LMAO 😂
@@DubberRucks"Bethesda makes buggy games" ☝️🤓
Baldur's Gate 3 may be #1 and a great game..
But Lethal Company is the true winner this year. 1 guy, 1 small budget, top 10 revenue at $50 million.
That amount is pure profit.
Not only that, but baldurs gate is a license game, so portion of the revenue goes to Wotc.
Half of that is Tax...lol and since he's one man dev. He won't have many business expense to cut on those number as well but still massive massive earning for 21yo. He's deserved it
@@mukamuka0even with taxes and development cost, let's say 60% of the revenue, if he makes good investments and is careful with his spending that dude is pretty much set for life.
@@talizorahnarrayya5916 me and my friend did the math last week on this actually. If I were to randomly have just a SINGLE MILLION dollars, if i did not change my spending habits at all, i could VERY comfortably live (I stay outside atlanta in georgia, US) for over another 40 years before 'running out'. That guy is FAR MORE than set if he's smart with the money lol. - my current spending is around 2.2k a month regularly , barring any emergencies. This is also not counting any extra revenue and assuming i'm sitting on my behind not working haha or investing etc.
Not bad for Armored Core, hopefully this is the green light FromSoft needed to make a sequel.
I would be more surprised if they don't make one, many of the dev clearly love the series and with that kind of revenue they can justify making more. Even if it doesn't come close to Elden Ring, it's better for studios to have multiple series so they can fall back on something if their main one flop.
Plus, considering his reputation, by now Miyazaki can probably get a project approved with "trust me bro" as the sole argument.
It's not just "Not bad". It was an impressive feat cuz no pure mecha games sells that crazy as armored core 6
Damn, 657 million dollars. I remember when they launched the DOS 2 kickstarter and got 2.5 million in the end. That's a complete shift in revenue. I trust Swen and the team to keep their heads cool and move on to the next project with the same mindset as before. We need studios like this more than ever.
Yeah also want to see console sales too.
@@Megatrance9000 i'd guess a cool round billion across all platforms.
"Single player games are dead, nobody wants them any more, extinct dinosaurs!" - Some dumbass at EA still trying to make DOA live service money platforms a thing
Remember that's only Steam, it's sold really well on PS also, estimates have it at over 1B dollars across the platforms now, so deserved!
If BG3's sales and reception aren't a wake up call for developers, I don't know what is. Look at what a _CRPG_ accomplished. Imagine if studios applied that level of love and detail to genres that the majority of people actually play.
@@IncognitoActivado Bro you can fuck a bear in Baldur's Gate no one cares.
I expect some devs to continue milking that whole unrealistic expectations and release half asses games.
looking at you blizzard 👀
@@IncognitoActivado Calling games woke is a way to justify your prejudice and bigotry if it doesn't cater to straight male powers and sexual fantasises. Not everybody wants muscular guy characters fighting stuff buddy. Give me a cute boy with flowers in his hair watering crops in stardew valley.
@@IncognitoActivado just say you are terrible at the game and life, 3 day old account.
@@IncognitoActivado Actual troll, not even a week old account.
There are tons of devs who put all their heart&soul into the games.
Just not the tripple A studios, at least most of them. So just don't buy their shit, support Indie companies, and you're good.
First Stardew Valley, now Lethal Company. These guys are such an inspiration, it's proof passion can go a long way.
can't forget about undertale.
1 guy vs big gaming companies, holy
Man got absolutely stacked for the rest of his life. Good for him.
To be fair the game itself is worth like 5 hours of fun
A guy who makes fun games for fun vs big gaming companies who makes games for money (looking directly at you Bethesda).
I havent even played it yet and it's provided me like 5 hours of amazing TikTok videos. Seriously some of the most funny gameplay videos I've ever seen (and ive been around) @@tryharderpls
@@tryharderpls To be fair that's probably more hours of fun than most AAA games can provide anyways.
I feel like that Starfield statistic was recorded before all the refunds took place.
So happy to see Armored Core 6 in the top10 and it deserves much more
Lethal Company has been one of the surprise games of 2023. What a fun game to watch streamed and to play. It's wild how one developer created that.
Dude Lethal Company is insane. Kinda crazy a single dev did a game this big, and the game cost 10 bucks
it costs 10 bucks because it's not a big game. It's a looter extraction with horror. These games are very popular with streamers, so ofc it got attention, but the game is as fun as a rock.
@@dreyga2Just like your personality! Maybe that's why you don't have any friends to play with. Cheers.
@@dreyga2
I have to agree, pretty much any game is fun with friends and this one relies entirely on interactions meant to create these "me and the Bois" moments.
when you look at the game by itself, you drop onto a map, grab item and bring back to ship, while avoiding monsters, a premise that has been done 100 times before by various indie titles to no success. add multiplayer and proximity voice and suddenly it's multiplayer game of the year. which, btw only features 3 player multiplayer for some god forsaken reason, more than 3 requires a mod that wasn't created by the dev.
@@tyrant3191 I watched a streamer play it, for 30 min or so. My god, is it boring. On youtube tho, different story, funny moments, very entertaining when edited.
@@tyrant3191 The game is popular precisely because it is designed to create those fun multiplayer moments as much as possible. Of course it's boring by yourself. Just admit you and/or your friends aren't fun.
The dude that made Lethal Company can now retire for multiple lifetimes
So happy for BG3, AC6, and Lethal Company
And sons of the forest, both forest games are probably my favorite survival games right under Minecraft.
starfield being number 3 shows people can make polished garbage and people still buy it. it's like buying an apple tv or mac monitor pc
nah it's just casual normies who don't pay attention to news.
You just described our society man
IT also shows that great games do deserve recognition like Lethal Company, and Baulders Great 3
@@NanomachineExE i feel like it may oddly be the opposite actually because so many people were following starfield development for years getting absolutely hyped for it and ended up getting swindled with their purchase. and all the casuals who weren't really paying attention got to wait for the reviews to come out and dust to settle before making a purchase.
polished?
Or Harry Potter has a massive built in audience, and the game was genuinely beautiful and worth playing. Story lacked a bit of depth, but it was a solid game.
Nah. It was that and the boycott spite.
Yup it was a good game.
Indeed. Great game and absolutely beautifully made.
That's just it ,its simply beautiful especially the castle everything aside from it is very generic and mediocre to the point it feels like an Ubisoft game
@@BullyMaguireTheAbsolute because it also fun to fly with broom
go invisible and kill everything
play your wizard like a true sith
7 out 10 games, including the top 4, are all single-player story driven games. I feel like you can tattoo this on every boardmember's face in every major gaming corp and they still won't see how that is the best option for revenue. It's so frustrating sometimes.
What I think is funny is it’s Revenue total.
So AAA games that go from $60-120 got beat by some games that cost 10-40.
Lethal company being top 10, when it’s only 10 dollars. That’s saying ALOT.
It's steam only, AAA games makes bank in consoles and I'm not even talking about mobile games.
Please remind yourself that you represent less than 10% of gaming.
@@birdbig6852 mobile has like 4 max good games, it’s mostly whale boomers and no money kids watching ads.
Consoles are like the same 10 games sold yearly.
This chart was only box cost revenue, not micro transactions. It’d be totally different with I dunno blizz games lmao bleeding people dry.
@@birdbig6852 what ass did you pull that statistic from lol?
for example, 44% of Elden Ring sales is PC. PS5+PS4 sold less combined than PC.
Please remind yourself that you live in delulu land.
For Starfield, is that before or after the refunds? 😂
Good one. 👍😂
After
A one person development team flexing onto the top 10.
Gaming is in a pretty good place I'd say!
Hogwarts Legacy needs to come up with some sort of DLC or expansion to really elevate the game. It really has so much potential as a Harry Potter game
I played it, I liked it at first, but at the end I just wanted it to be over.
Games dead once you beat the main story and has absolutely zero replay value
Also the protagonist kind of brutally murders a bunch of people and quips about it.
best dlc would be you go to another school on a foreign exchange year to learn their unique magic. I would suggest the African school of shapeshifting magic.
they are, they have beta sign ups for quidditch multiplayer
My guess with Starfield is you had a lot of folks that bought into the hype or thought the modders would quickly sort it out. Hogwarts Legacy being that high makes sense but BG3 selling that much surprises me, I thought more people did what I did and bought it during the early access part.
MAN is it so hard for you guys to admit that starfield is actually a good game? Pathetic copehagen
Nope. Never heard of it until my friend told me about it. I even saw the first trailer when it released, assumed aliens vs fantasy was silly idea and completly forgot about it. I only now remeber that I did in fact watch it.
I and most of my friends didn't really know about this game until it came out, even tho I am big RPGs fan. I thought that talk about all of those decisions and freedom is typical buzzword soup and only after 'borrowing' BG3 for 30 hours I couldn't take the guilt, so I bought Deluxe Edition.
I learned to not believe how great a game is, till it's released from AAA studios.
oh not at all BG3 was a niche game until the bear sex campaign hit and all the streamers started picking it up. From that point on it just became a cultural phenomenon. I'm actually most impressed with Starfield, considering the vast majority of people playing it did so on Game Pass. Even with it getting snubbed at the awards show and most people online taking that populist stance of hating on it, God Howard continues to be successful.
@@hadoken95 I heard somewhere that emphasizing that bear sex scene was the best marketing idea for BG3. Not because most people want that, Larian's internal numbers suggest they don't, but because it made the game look like it had a lot of freedom, made then ask, "if I can do *that* what else can I do?"
52m for lethal company. That guy is seriously set for life. He’s still pretty young too. Great job.
Sons of the forest went hard damn didn’t think it did that well glad it did tho
Man, I can't imagine being that Lethal Company dev. No wonder he mentioned that he's going through some changes in his life in the latest patch notes.
Zeekerssr can hire staff now so he could update Lethal company faster XD
I'm guessing the 235M from Starfield isn't taking refunds into account lmao
Im surprised at Lethal company since it costs 10 dollars. if we multiplied by 6 , it would have made more than starfield....
Sounds about right. It has had more players for months now.
@@Mundus66 It's the Among Us of 2023, If the game was released during Covid time I believe it would bend the whole gaming world.
@@Salmagros bend the gaming world? it's a looter extraction for fuk sake.
yeah but the thing is if it costed 60$ for an amongus-type "with the boys" game, there would be a LOT less people buying it. the 10$ price point is what helped it get that high
@@vincentcircharo8259 maybe, hardware is a factor too, streamers/youtubers making content = free publicity, no politics injected, modds
Considering hogwarts was the steam game of the year and was the most sold game of the year the boycott backfired in glorious fashion
BG3 won the Steam GOTY, Hogrwarts won the best steamdeck game. Still a great game.
I'm not surprised. The average Harry Potter fan probably didn't know there was a boycott and wouldn't have cared if they did know. They just knew the thing they really liked had a game so they bought it. Simple as.
@@mekboy7403Ya most people arent antisemetic or crazy. Just stupid
The funniest part is that anyone who has played any hp game knows they are mediocre at best so they are overlooked most of the time. The boycott brought more people to buy the game due to attention lmao
Wait, what?! Baldur's Gate 3 is both of those. Sure, Hogwarts got 2nd in revenue and is very popular itself, it wasn't GOTY on Steam, that was definitely BG3.
Doesn't surprise me I bought deluxe bg3 in september and probably a lot of people did too
The success of Lethal Company is great to see because it's another reminder that a great game doesn't need ray-tracing, or 500 GB worth of stuff to be great.
Most of the time, a game just needs to be fun and not a buggy mess
sons of the forest and lethal company - both made by small dev teams - being in the top 10 is nice!
Not a CoDoody in sight.
@@Blisterdude123 I don't think people buy cod on steam lil bro 💀
so glad to see AC6 on the list, this is a game for people who love games.
my god, lethal company just get into early access about 5 months ago. man, now I'm worried about the dev, hope he got a strong integrity. worst case scenario, he'll spent half on furry suit.
It is extra impressive that Baldur's Gate earned so much without having tons of DLCs and locked content, so it earned that much by asking quite little from the players
lethal company being there is also crazy, cause it costs 10€, so it was probably bought 3rd most. Crazy for such a simple game.
I watched other people play the game, it's boring as shi.t but you can't refund it because you realize it too late.
Considering that Baldurs Gate cost 6 times the ammount Lethal Company does... If we put that in comparrison Lethal Company be actually second place if it had the same price. Or 3rd. That's actually crazy. And ew Cities is last place. It shouldn't even be on the list.
Lethal Company deserves the success. It alone completely shattered the entire idea of having better graphics = good game mentality amongst the higher AAA gaming industries.
To make an average-looking game that generates more than $50 million profits is proof that gamers only want simple, playable and fun game to play with, more than the beautiful graphics but filled with loading screens and dialogues - which makes people fall asleep faster than counting sheeps over your head.
Congratulations and good job to the developer of Lethal Company. Hope more indie devs comes out with brilliant games this year just like Among Us and Lethal Company.
I dont get the appeal. game looks incredibly boring
like it's cool that just one dude made it but that doesn't change the fact that this game doesn't look the slightest bit fun and that's the only thing that matters
i wouldn't say lethal's graphics are bad, but the majority of gamers affiliate good graphics with 1:1 realistic graphics where you can see the each individual pores of each npcs or whatknot.
like lethal, you dont need to have that for 'good graphics' if you know how the make it feel good and set the atmosphere right. you've got it there.
@@konata8657 Just say you got no friends to play with
@@kunstlerischesetwas1284 or i just dont find the game interesting enough to convince me to try it. i know i know, its outlandish that someone doesnt hop on the bandwagon. shocking right?
i like how you dont have anything constructive to say so you have to resort to me insulting me. really shows your character lmao
@@konata8657 Its actually not that deep, there is no constructive criticism to give, its your opinion. This just doesn't change the fact that you judge the game only on a Gameplay standpoint, which is hilarious because it just shows that you never really understood why people actually play the game. Your just an Edge lord, who thinks hes cool because he has a different opinion regarding a popular game. Its okay for you not to play the game, but saying that it has no appeal to it and looking boring just tells me enough about the amount of content you have watched about this Game: Zero. So yes, i make Fun of you, because your opinion is pretty much based on nothing.
sized to scale, the BG3 column would be 13 times higher than the Cities Skylines 2 one.
most innovative game of the year: starfield
meanwhile in starfield: imagine if instead of having all the towns/outposts in 1 massive area, we put each one on an empty planet, and have players just scan the same 20 mobs 100 times over. also, lets give them a jetpack.
Keeping in mind lethal company is not even a fully realized game and hasn't been out long at all. good for that guy, cool that he hasn't abandoned ship after making absolute bank
I got starfield with my new graphics card, i didn't pay for it.
Lethal company is amazing since it was an indie game.
Saddens me Starfield got 3rd but on the bright side BG3 got first.
I'm glad AC6 is so well received
BG3 657M
No in game shop
No micro transactions
No subscription
No DLC
Just a game making money for being a good game
Thing is BG3 will continue selling throughout 2024 and i am sure Larian Studio is working on more content for it, it's confirmed. They could cross a billion this year
They most likely already did. Those are steam numbers only and it was one of the most preordered games on ps5 as well.
I'm so glad AC6 did so good. Loved every minute of it and that gives me hope for new content.
Rogue Trader needs more attention! But yea Baldurs gate 3 and Armored core were super awesome. Starfield making over 200m on steam...yikes. Bethesda keeps getting away with it T_T
Impossible. GOOD GAME that has no microtransactions earned the most?
Resident Evil 4 and Hogwarts Legacy were my absolute favorites last year
Year is 2050, Asmon has lost all his hair. Still hasn't played BG3.
I enjoyed Dead Space and Resident Evil 4 remakes a lot but they don’t compare with the absolute joy I had with Hogwarts Legacy. I played like 12 hours over the weekends for 3 months and I loved every minute of it.
Lethal Company making 52 Million when the game only costs 10 dollars is the real winner here. All of the other games had huge budgets and cost far more to make and their price tag for players was higher too. Baldurs Gate really isn't a fair comparison to the other games, since people have known about it longer, so the hype was growing long before 2023. It had a chance to make money all year long, while the other games came out in 2023 and had a smaller window to make that money. For it being an RPG, yeah it being so popular is phenomenal, but it really doesn't have any competition. 2023 was a bad year for games, not a lot of good stuff came out.
Todd Howard has 100% speech, only reason it got 235m
The dev of Lethal Company actually makes some really great and innovative games. Its a really nice dev that deserves the rep he gets tbh
Hogwarts was a first Harry Potter universe game for a long time, the fanbase is huge
Steam charges 30%, so Lethal Company gets around $35M.
Still a lot.
It's nice to see Baldur's Gate 3 at the top of the list. It's sad to see generic triple A trash on the next two spots, but at least Gold has gone to those who deserve it.
Hogwarts was surprisingly great tho. So many details that did bot have to be there. The devs clearly put heart into it. Starfield on the other hand....
Sadly FIFA (or at leas a EA sports game) is also in top 10. And you know well how much effort needed is different.
I thought lethal company was just the new FotM. Didnt think it sold THAT many. Top 10 geez
baldurs gate 3 did proof whats wrong whit gaming and its rly high quality but nothing can beat that one game everybody has fun in whit their friends because gameplay is just fun and not bloated. the game is just like: "here you go, here the objective, this are the few mechanics surounding it, now here are the places to fulfil that goal and now have fun working together to avo- getting enough stuff for the goal. btw i give you some items for your efforts if you do a good job whit the goal! just dont die ok? :) * vanishes before you can ask questions *"
BG3 deserves all the success for its customer friendly practices.
Again - incredibly surprised that RE remaster got a nom for GOTY but Hogwarts didn't. I don't think it should have won, but it def deserved to be in the running more than a remaster. Hell, if a remaster deserve a nom then Phantom Liberty deserves one as at least that was new content.
It is a remake. Not a remaster.
EGS and Blackrock will not allow it, woke games media bends the knee.
That and Super Mario spin-off that dropped like a mere week before the Awards to a much quieter reception than Hogwarts Legacy. Also up till that point I had only heard of Alan Wake in ads. Still haven't seen an actual person that knows what it even is.
@@cattysplatWhich is strange because there is a trans person in the game. The girl (or dude?) with the deep male voice. Honestly it broke my immersion and took me out of the game every time I heard him speak.
Nah Hogwarts isn't good enough for game of the year, especially when there are much better like Armored Core or Lies of P to choose instead.
The fact Lethal Company outpaced CoD will always be hilarious
Number 2 selling game on Steam, not even a single nomination at VGA.
Wonder why... 🤔
what's VGA?
Remnant 2 is criminally underrated.
One guy who has been making games for over 10 years now lol
Interesting list because if you count consoles it would be pretty different and shows how bigger console revenue is.
Starfield sold a lot because of its early access. Im one of the idiots that bought it because I thought it would be a hit for sure. Everything I had seen had me hyped. And with the early access, I could play it during a weekend instead of weekday which is a whole lot more difficult for me. Incredible disappointment, but I still dont get how it made those sales because I returned mine, and then just went and played a bit more on gamepass later.
i dodged the starfield bullet since i was still busy with my BG3 playthrough and figured i'd wait for the dust to settle. in that sense BG3 paid for itself.
Everything coming out of Microsoft at the moment is ass. Should've wised up.
I figure the same maybe the 200million is from people that bought it, but 150million was returned back, but they don't count the money lost only gained lmao. I know I returned it and didn't even do the full 2 hours.
@@Ohdeerhere I did the same with bg3
"Starfield sold a lot because of its early access" - no. It sold a lot because they lied, just like most AAA studios. They invest a lot in trailers to lie to people.
16 times the details
Cyberpunk did the same and some people now think it's a good game, when in fact it's the same crap game, but with fewer bugs and more "content".
GTA6 will suffer the same fate.
What's most surprising is how low all these are in terms of revenue on the largest platform for PC games, when you remember that Diablo Immortal made half a billion in a year or that GTA 5 has had about one Baldur's Gate 3 revenue average PER YEAR for the last entire decade. Or that Diablo 4 made the same as Baldur's Gate 3 in 5 days.
The Sole Developer of Lethal Company is sleeping on cash right now. Imagine making your first game and it suddenly blows up, loved by the community! It is indeed a surpising success for him.
Its not is first game.
Other than his roblox mods he did have a few other creepy type of games released as well, that you should definitely check out if you like that genre. So technically it's not his first game, but certainly the first big one as the previous ones felt like experimentations leading up to this one and also i think we should really admire the creator by how fast he was pumping the updates recently with next 0.50 version being a really big update when it drops. Sadly, knowing how steam payments works, he's most likely won't see any of that money for a month or two, if what i remember is correct, they pay it quarterly or just every 3 months, not 100% sure on this one tho
@@dtxas1 Lethal Company came out in October i think so is posible that he has already been paid.
this is definitely one of the lists of all time
Call of Duty not being on the list is kind of a big deal.
I completely disagree with the idea that the boycott had any effect at all on the sales. it obviously didnt work but i don't believe that it actually inspired people to buy it to just go against the trend. If anything it sold super well because its simply Harry Potter, one of the biggest franchises in he world, nothing else.
I know at least 5 people irl who bought it purely out of spite and I don’t even think they played the game when it came out. You will find plenty others online with similar stories, boycotts/protests always encourage this kind of behavior
You can even find people in the comments saying they bought it out of spite
@@jebalitabb8228 I'm not saying that some people didnt do it but those who did it are not that big of a mark to make this the second best-selling game of last year.
Lets be realistic, the game sold on its own merit, not just because of a meme.
also remember when those games released. Hogwarts Legacy came out at the beginning of the year while BG3 came out in August and still, BG3 is way above the rest.
Hogwarts legacy was great.
But holy shit the MATH on this! BG3 is #1 with TWICE the revenue of the #2 slot, and STILL higher than #2 and #3 combined. And yeah, it's that fucking good. Well deserved.
Fym still. If it's twice the second there is no mathematical way second+something less than a second one beat it lol
@@Russian_engineer_bmstu Well yeah, just. Dude. Still pretty cool.
It still makes me laugh that hogwarts got boycotted for transphobia when it is literally the only game I’ve ever played with a memorable, believable, and well written trans character. She also happened to just be a pretty fucking cool person in general so I couldn’t imagine better representation but the hate for the game because of JK was insane. Glad to see it did well because I really enjoyed it, especially once I found a mod for PC keybindings for spells instead of the action bar flipping
Nothing believable about a trans woman having a deeper voice than 90 percent of men tbh. Also the fact that they want me to believe that there's no way for a person to change their voice in a world where people can shape shift into animals and ride around on magical flying brooms.
@@nighthawk2548 Pretty fair but trans seems to be more of an identity unto itself rather than actually trying to be the opposite gender. Some do try to speak in a different tone but others just don't.
@@nighthawk2548 why not? I’ve known women with deeper voices, especially when they’re smokers. My great grandmother sounded more like a guttural demon than a man much less a woman. And I assumed there are magical ways to hide that, but as everything else with appearance, it’s probably more about accepting yourself than being perfect. I assume there are tons of magical versions of cosmetic surgery, by that logic it should be as popular as everyday makeup
They was obviously a token trans character, dude. They threw her in there just to make themselves look good. Her name is literally SIRona.
they just swapped the sex of the char after that boycott BS. So many idiots fell for the fake "boycott" propaganda it's hilarious.
I wonder if this includes the BG3 sales from its early access, if not, that would be freaking wild.
The more surprising reason for Hogwarts Legacy's success is that it is the best selling Ubisoft game that wasn't made by Ubisoft. Who knew you could make a game with all the faults of the Ubisoft game that people have been bashing for years and you only needed two things - make sure your company isn't called Ubisoft, and add brooms.
I don't think Steam allows you to buy _two_ copies of the same game.
re4 is awesome
bro had a good idea, developed it himself, and is now set for life
I do hope Zeekers knows how to cut his taxes or it's going to be a painful sting to lose out one asily the majority of your sales
I did not expect City Skylines 2 to be at the top 10 specially with the buggy release. Did they fixed it?
PC gamers usually don't have sense of quality.
Paradox Interactive fanboys are whales.
That's not surprising. Even with Starfield being a pile of shit and all the nonsense around Hogwarts the popularity surrounding them helped push them to the top and Hogwarts being a good game let it pass up Starfield which people only bought because of Skyrim and Bethesda. The rest of the list follows pretty normally but good for Lethal Company for taking number 9.
The funny thing about Hogwart's Legacy is that, besides being visually delicious, it's a very basic game with very predictable twists and puzzles in the dungeons, and the optimization was subpar (mostly because of the DRM...), but the ambience, specially for fans of the saga, was spot on.
BG3 however, I'm not that happy with the lv cap just because further spells "break the game", considering how many D&D games came before and shied not from allowing even limited epic magic.
I bought hogwarts because of the boycott and the stupidity of the people behind it. It was actually a pretty enjoyable game.
Let's not forget BG3 was on early access for years and sold big numbers before this year.
LETHAL COMPANY LETS GOOOOO
Lethal Company was released 10/23/2023. jeez, it's only 2 months
YEP and COD got beat by a indie game smh.
Activision: ah, but our games consistently make us bucket loads of ca$h so there!
@@DubberRucks funny yea they making money faster but in the long run they losing billions.
Cod is a console game
@@theadityavikramvarma uaaa no its a all platform game. LOL
@@h1c2e35 most casuals play cod on consoles lik 90percent
Man i wish i had any kind of passion for coding and programming but i have literally 0 patience or nerves for it.
The guy who made lethal company definitely deserves that cash
I'm really happy for Baldurs Gate 3 and its developers even if I didn't like the game. Just the sheer joy for single player RPGgame that was made with a passion.
Can i ask why u did not like it i have been thinking of buying it recently
@@ryanbaker5296 bad optimization in third act, meh plot (that basically ends in act 2), meh characters (who are so horny it cringe), boring battles (in third act mostly). I wouldn't call it a bad game tho, I just didn't like it.
@@KunKosh Thanks for the info
hope you'll like it if you buy it! @@ryanbaker5296
It's funny how they were "boycotting" the HP game but it ended in 2nd most sold
Hogwarts Legacy being #2 when it's a very, VERY average game.
Good job woke people. You literally advertised and hyped the game up to the year's second biggest game lol.
I was surprised to see Sons Of The Forest did it so well. I didn’t hear any buzz around it so I thought it did poorly.