Steam's Best of 2022 — Most Played

Steam has finished the year by looking at some of the best games from 2022, whether they’re from this year or not. The Most Played category looks at the games played in 2022 that had over 40,000 concurrent players (not counting giveaways or free weekends).

The Most Played were (in no particular order):

OVER 240,000 PEAK PLAYERS

• PUBG: Battlegrounds
• Dota 2
• Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
• Goose Goose Duck
• ARK: Survival Evolved
• Lost Ark
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (2022)
• ELDEN RING
• Dying Light 2 Stay Human
• Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel
• Destiny 2
• Apex Legends

OVER 130,000 PEAK PLAYERS

• Team Fortress 2
• Path of Exile
• MultiVersus
• Rust
• Total War: WARHAMMER III
• NARAKA: BLADEPOINT
• Cyberpunk 2077
• Monster Hunter Rise
• Grand Theft Auto V
• Wallpaper Engine
• V Rising
• New World

OVER 75,000 PEAK PLAYERS

• Warhammer: Vermintide 2
• Vampire Survivors
• The Sims 4
• Valheim
• Unturned
• EA SPORTS FIFA 23
• Terraria
• Left 4 Dead 2
• LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
• Dead by Daylight
• Football Manager 2022
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
• Raft
• Warframe
• FIFA 22
• Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
• Football Manager 2023
• The Forest
• Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
• Sid Meier’s Civilization VI
• War Thunder
• Need for Speed Heat
• Dread Hunger

OVER 40,000 PEAK PLAYERS

• World of Tanks Blitz
• Conan Exiles
• Stumble Guys
• Battlefield V
• No Man's Sky
• Dark and Darker
• Farming Simulator 22
• Crusader Kings III
• UNDECEMBER
• FINAL FANTASY XIV Online
• Project Zomboid
• Hearts of Iron IV
• Stellaris
• SUPER PEOPLE 2
• Battlefield 1
• DayZ
• Payday 2
• Phasmophobia
• Risk of Rain 2
• Halo Infinite
• Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered
• Mirror 2: Project X
• GUNDAM EVOLUTION
• Red Dead Redemption 2
• Deep Rock Galactic
• RimWorld
• Stray
• Cult of the Lamb
• Fall Guys
• The Cycle: Frontier
• Stardew Valley
• Don't Starve Together
• Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
• Garry's Mod
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
• Victoria 3
• 7 Days to Die
• VRChat
• NBA 2K22
• 暖雪 Warm Snow
• MIR4
• 太吾绘卷 The Scroll Of Taiwu
• Euro Truck Simulator 2
• God of War

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