As is annual tradition, Valve has released its year-end charts ranking the top-selling Steam games of 2025. This time, indie darlings are make a big splash alongside your usual million-dollar franchises.
Steam's chart goes over the highest grossing new games released in this calendar year, with 12 games making it into the top Platinum tier. In no particular order, the top 12 Steam 2025 games based on revenue earned is as follows:
- Elden Ring Nightreign
- EA FC 26
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
- Borderlands 4
- Monster Hunter Wilds
- Arc Raiders
- Dune Awakening
- Hollow Knight Silksong
- Battlefield 6
- Schedule 1
- The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered
- Civilization 7
Of the year's biggest earners, only three games are purely single-player between Hollow Knight Silksong, Oblivion Remastered, and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 - impressive given that the charts are based on revenue, and the trio above don't have endless microtransactions or battle passes to sell players.
Even more impressive is the fact that two indies, Hollow Knight Silksong and Schedule 1, managed to out earn dozens of AAA games this year without a publisher, a budget of millions, or a full-cost price tag. Both hits usually cost $20, meaning they had to sell many millions of more copies to make the same amount as their $70-60 peers.
Elsewhere in the charts, game of the year winner Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Doom: The Dark Ages made it into the Gold tier, despite still being available on Game Pass, as did this year's Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, which failed to show up its biggest rival Battlefield 6 in the charts. COD is also available on battle.net, though, so we don't entirely know how the two big shooters compared sales-wise.
Look back and get mad at us with our best games of 2025 list.
