In case you have not heard, multiplayer shooters are present process a vibe shift—as PC Gamer’s Morgan Park outlined in that article, 2025 met gamers with plenty of video games that forego brutal competitors in favor of extra approachable, chaotic, casual-friendly capturing. It looks as if gamers are wanting to embrace the brand new order, as two decidedly chill video games dominated the gross sales charts round Christmas: Arc Raiders and Battlefield 6.
That stat comes courtesy of SteamDB, which gathered a listing of the highest ten best-selling video games (excluding free-to-play video games) from December 23 to at this time, December 30. There are many acquainted faces: the award-guzzling Clair Obscur, the absurdly glorious Baldur’s Gate 3, and our favourite sport of 2025, Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. There’s additionally some video games that you simply simply take with no consideration as all the time being finest sellers: Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced and the newest EA Sports activities FC, for instance.
However on the very high break up solely by the Steam Deck are Arc Raiders and Battlefield 6, two shooters that provide comparatively intense, aggressive kinds of shooter (extraction and trendy navy) with out all of the sweat. There’s not a lot as a aggressive ranked mode of play in BF6, and Arc Raiders is a breakout hit in a style as soon as identified primarily for being area of interest and hardcore. As Elie Gould put it in their evaluation: “Lastly, a much less aggravating extraction shooter.”
You could find the expanded record of 100 video games on SteamDB, which incorporates every little thing from indie co-op hit RV There But? to 2 completely different Murderer’s Creed video games one after one other. The most important shock for me is that Ubisoft‘s Avatar sport, Frontiers of Pandora, is at quantity 19 above Pink Lifeless Redemption 2 and Elden Ring Nightreign. I assume that is the facility of a movie collection that unfailingly generates a whole lot of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} each time it surfaces.