Biggest Steam Game of 2022, Which is Your Favorite?

If we want to play online games, of course not far from Steam. Steam, which is a platform for buying and selling and playing online games, certainly provides many games that can be played every day.

Among the many games on Steam, of course there are games that are popular and have lots of fans and an active community which makes this game more lively to play.

Steam

Steam is a distribution platform for video games developed by Valves. Initially, Steam was launched as software client in September 2003 which Valve wanted to provide aautomatic updates for the games they developed, but they started developing them into a third-party trading platform in late 2005.

The Steam platform offers various features, such as digital rights managementt (DRM), matchmaking game servers and anti-cheat measures, and social networking and game streaming services. This platform can provide its users updates games automatically, cloud sync of saved games, and community features like friend messaging, in-game chat, and community market.

Among the many games available on Steam, there are games that are played the most by fans. Through this article, VCGamers will tell you which games are the most played as of May 2022!

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

In the first position is one of the legendary FPS games, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS: GO). According to statista, CS:GO is the busiest Steam game because on average it has a total of 570,541 players playing simultaneously.

CS:GO is a game with a genre multiplayer first-person shooter which was released in 2012 and developed by Valve and Hidden Path Entertainment. CS:GO itself is the fourth game in the Counter-Strike series and has been in development for more than two years.

Since its launch, CS:GO has been playable for Windows, macOS, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and Linux. And until now Valve as the developer has done several things updates regarding gameplay and the latest features from CS:GO to add to the playing experience player.

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Lost Ark

Lost Ark is a top-down 2.5D fantasy game massively multiplayer online action role-playing game (MMOARPG) co-developed by Tripod Studio and Smilegate's game development subsidiary, Smilegate RPG. The game was fully released on December 4, 2019 in South Korea.

After being released in South Korea, this game was released in North America, South America and Europe on February 11, 2022, published by Amazon Games. After its release, this game broke the record by becoming the second most played concurrently Steam game.

Reporting from statista, as of May 2022 Lost Ark has an average of 470,914 players playing simultaneously. This game went on to win many awards including six awards in various categories at the 2019 Korea Game Awards.

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Dota 2

The third most popular Steam game is one of the best Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) games, Dota 2. This game was developed and published by Valve and is a sequel to Defense of the Ancients (DotA).

Just like other MOBA games, this Dota 2 game is played with 2 teams, each team must guard and destroy the enemy base with heroes who have different skills and abilities, which they use andbuild' while playing.

According to statista, as of May 2022 Dota has an average of 445,005 players playing simultaneously.

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PUBG: Battlegrounds

Just like the mobile version, PUBG: Battlegrounds is a game with a genre online multiplayer battle royale game developed and published by PUBG Studios. The game is based on previous mods created by Brendan “PlayerUnknown” Greene for other games also inspired by the 2000 Japanese film Battle Royale, and expanded into a standalone game under Greene's creative direction.

PUBG: Battlegrounds was first released on Microsoft Windows via a beta program early access Steam in March 2017, with a full release in December 2017. The game was later released by Microsoft Studios for Xbox One through the Xbox Game Previews the same month, and officially released in September 2018.

According to statista, as of May 2022 PUBG: Battlegrounds has an average of 218,146 players playing simultaneously, making it the fourth busiest Steam game.

Apex Legends

The next game is Apex Legends, a game with a genre battle royale-hero shooter it was developed by Respawn Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts. The game was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One in February 2019, for Nintendo Switch in March 2021, and for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S in March 2022.

Then this game released its mobile version which was released on May 17, 2022 on Android and iOS. However, you can play this game anywhere on a PC, Game Console, or Smartphone and can still meet because this game supports cross-platform.

According to statista, as of May 2022 Apex Legends has an average of 185,721 players playing simultaneously, making it the fifth most popular Steam game.

Elden Rings

The game, which was directed by Hidetaka Miyazaki and collaborated with Game of Thrones fantasy novelist George RR Martin, is the next biggest Steam game with an average of 115,552 players playing simultaneously, making it the sixth most popular Steam game.

Unsurprisingly, this recently released game has become a byword among gamers who like the genre action role-playing and get a lot of appreciation.

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GTA V

Grand Theft Auto V or GTA V is a game open world action-adventure Legendary developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games in 2013. This game is the seventh main title in the Grand Theft Auto series, following 2008's Grand Theft Auto IV, and the fifteenth installment overall.

Since the GTA: San Andreas series, this game certainly has many fans around the world because it offers an open world that is interesting and fun to play. Because of its popularity, it's not surprising that this game is the seventh most popular Steam game with an average of 87,068 players playing simultaneously, as reported by statista.