News video games 27 November 2019, 11:11

Disco Elysium and Postal 4 Among Biggest Steam Launches of October

We've got a list of the top 20 Steam launches of October. Among them were such titles as Destiny 2, Disco Elysium or Postal 4: No Regerts.

The launch of Destiny 2 in free-to-play model was the biggest event of October on Steam.

Valve has published a list of the twenty biggest (in terms of popularity) Steam launches of October. Traditionally, no specific sales results or even order of titles were given, so we have to rely on estimates of the paid version of Steam Spy. Nevertheless, the list still gives a good idea of what the users of the website were excited about last month.

The most important event in October was the released of Destiny 2, which at the same switched to a free model with microtransactions. Other successful debuts also included the RPG Disco Elysium and the Chinese strategy game RichMan10. The early access version of Postal 4: No Regerts was also a great success.

The 20 biggest Steam launches of October

#	Game:	Estimated current number of owners according to Steam Spy:
1.	Destiny 2	8.3 million (free-to-play)
2.	RichMan10	133,000.
3.	Secret Neighbor	131,000.
4.	Disco Elysium	102,000.
5.	Postal 4: No Regerts	86,000.
6.	WWE 2K20	70,000.
7.	Crossroads Inn	Sixty thousand.
8.	Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince	Sixty thousand.
9.	Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout	59,000.
10.	ArcheAge: Unchained	58,000.
11.	Autonauts	57,000.
12.	We Were Here Together	41,000.
13.	Mistover	Thirty-eight thousand.
14.	Pine	Thirty-six thousand.
15.	The Jackbox Party Pack 6	Thirty-six thousand.
16.	Indivisible	Thirty-three thousand.
17.	GRID	Thirty-two thousand.
18.	Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth Complete Edition	29,000.
19.	Chernobylite	Twenty-three thousand.
20.	Doraemon Story of Seasons	18,000.

Valve has also published an additional list of the most popular October launches of games using the free micropayment model.

The biggest free-to-play launches on Steam in October

#	Game:	Estimated current number of owners according to Steam Spy:
1.	Destiny 2	8.3 million (free-to-play)
2.	NGU IDLE	255,000.
3.	War Selection	204,000.
4.	Zombie Walking 2	125,000.
5.	Legend of Keepers: Prologue	98,000.
6.	Breeders of the Nephelium: Alpha	no data available

The results show that the most important Steam launch of last month was Destiny 2. The game debuted on October 1 and four days later, in the hottest moment of October 5, the title was played by more than 292 thousand players at the same time. The title did not repeat this result later, but it still enjoys great popularity and does not leave the list of the most popular items on Steam.