Video games live or die by their popularity and sales. Just ask Cliff Bleszinski about his two recent flops that caused Boss Key to shut down. On a more positive note, let’s look into which games managed to sell the best on the world’s most popular virtual store.

For Steam’s generic “Top Sellers of 2018” list, you have just about everything you’d expect. Although, they broke down the list into Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Bronze. Just what those mean is anybody’s guess, but the hierarchy is clear on who sold better.

In the Platinum category, we have titles like PUBG, The Elder Scrolls: Online, Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, Far Cry 5, Monster Hunter: World, and more.

Gold sees titles such as Black Desert Online, Assassin’s Creed: Origins, Dead by Daylight, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Ark: Survival Evolved and then some.

In Silver, we have Fallout 4, Final Fantasy XV, Subnautica, No Man’s Sky, Warhammer: Vermintide II, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, etc.

And lastly, in the Bronze category we have a slew of titles, including Hunt: Showdown, Borderlands 2, Bless Online, Ni No Kuni II, Call of Duty: WWII, Watch Dogs 2, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, The Division, For Honor, Conan Exiles, and much more.

Breaking it Down: Plenty of New, More of the Old

As you can tell by the snippets from each category, each list has several games that released this year. Titles like Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Far Cry 5, Civilization VI, Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Frost Punk and so on. However, there are many more older titles that are still continuing to sell despite their age. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, The Elder Scrolls Online, Skyrim, Grand Theft Auto V, Ark, Fallout 4, Rust, The Sims 3, and so on. It makes you wonder at the quality of recent games compared to those of the past. Do these old games truly hold up as well as these rankings suggest?

However, in this gamer’s humble opinion, games are only getting better, and we have plenty of great titles to look forward to. With the likes of Anthem, Crackdown 3, Metro: Exodus, Devil May Cry 5, The Division 2, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, and so on, 2019 is looking like another great year.

Want More Best-Ofs?

Steam has several other categories under their Best-Ofs for 2018. Check out the links below for more.

Best of 2018 New Releases which breaks the list down by best selling per month.

Best of 2018 Virtual Reality which has the ranking system and a Top Releases of 2018 at the end.

Best of 2018 Early Access Graduates which is a list of games that successfully made it out of early access and sold well.

And lastly, they have a “Most Played” category which has just about everything you’d expect.

If you want to know what industry critics thought, you can catch up on the recent Game Awards, or check out our list of “The Top 25 Games Of All Time According To Critics.”