Steam is a major PC distribution platform home to thousands of games and millions of users. The service is owned by Valve and is largest game platform with over 125 million active users. The platform most notably lacks Blizzard games as well as Electronic Arts games since they established their own distribution service. It has a notably weak presence in Asia due to Chinese regulations limiting its presence there until recently.
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These are the best selling games on the service according to Steamspy. This list does not include Free to play games. Games with an asterisk have had a notable free period.
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (Valve) - 36 million
- PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG Corporation - 27.9 million
- Left 4 Dead 2 (Valve) - 18.43 million*
- Payday 2 (Starbreeze) - 15.04 million*
- Counter-Strike: Source (Valve) - 14.99 million
- Garry's Mod (Valve) - 13.73 million
- Counter-Strike (Valve) - 13.43 million
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda) - 11.06 million
- Portal 2 (Valve) - 10.84 million*
- Civilization V (2K Games) - 9.6 million
- Terraria (Re-Logic) - 9.15 million
- Grand Theft Auto V ( Rockstar Games) - 9.03 million
- Borderlands 2 (2K Games) - 7.85 million *
- H1Z1 (Daybreak) - 7.54 million
- Don't Starve Together (Klei Entertainment) - 6.77 million
- Rocket League (Psyonix) - 6.34 million *
- Rust (Facepunch Studios) - 6.16 million
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition (Bethesda) - 5.96 million*
- ARK: Survival Evolved (Studio Wildcard) - 5.26 million*
- Fallout: New Vegas (Bethesda) - 4.84 million
