News video games 24 June 2021, 15:34

Steam Top May Releases Include Resident Evil Village and Chair Simulator

May on Steam was marked by big premieres such as Resident Evil Village, Days Gone or Mass Effect: Legendary Edition. Old exclusives from Epic Games Store also did well. On the other hand, the biggest free-to-play debuts include Chair Simulator.

Valve released a list of May's biggest launches on Steam. The criterion was the revenue generated in the first two weeks after the launch. The big hits turned out to be, among others, Resident Evil Village and Subnautica: Below Zero.

Mass Effect: Legendary Edition and Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne HD Remaster, both refreshed versions of classic RPGs, were also very popular. Biomutant and Days Gone were also warmly received.

Also included are MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries, Maneater and SnowRunner, which were previously exclusive to Epic Games Store. This shows that there is no shortage of players willing to wait for their desired games to be available on Steam.

Valve does not provide detailed sales fogures, and the order on the lists is always random. Therefore, in the following list we use data from the paid version of SteamSpy. Its estimates are not always accurate, but it's better than nothing.

The biggest releases of May on Steam

#	Game:	Number of owners according to SteamSpy:	Was the game previously available in Early Access?
1.	Resident Evil Village	1,551 million	no
2.	Subnautica: Below Zero	1.448 million	yes
3.	Mass Effect: Legendary Edition	534 thousand.	no
4.	Days Gone	511 thousand.	no
5.	Biomutant	322 thousand.	no
6.	Solasta: Crown of the Magister	270k.	yes
7.	Knockout City	173k.	no
8.	Hood: Outlaws & Legends	163k.	no
9.	MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries	119k.	no
10.	Maneater	77k.	no
11.	Tainted Grail: Conquest	63k.	no
12.	Before We Leave	27k.	no
13.	Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Storm Ground	17k.	no
14.	Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne HD Remaster	lack of data	no
15.	SnowRunner	no data	no
16.	Saints Row: The Third Remastered	no data	no
17.	Frozenheim	no data	yes, the game is currently only available in Early Access
18.	Earth Defense Force: World Brothers	no data	no

The biggest F2P releases of May

Valve also published an additional list, focused on the most popular free-to-play launches of May. In this case, the criterion was the activity record. We've sorted the following list according to the overall activity record of a given game, not just the one achieved in May, as this gives a better idea of the level of success a given production has achieved on Steam.

May was a month clearly slower than usual in terms of free-to-play premieres, so the top five included humorous productions like Slappyball and Chair Simulator, with activity records of several hundred people playing simultaneously.

#	Game:	Current activity record according to SteamDB:
1.	Scavengers	16 787
2.	SoulWorker	10 332
3.	Super Bomberman R Online	6 906
4.	Slappyball	422
5.	Chair Simulator	273