Steam reveals its top 100 best-selling games of 2016

With today marking the end of the Steam winter sale, we're getting a look into which games made the most cash in 2016. Steam has delivered a list of its 100 top sellers, and you might be surprised by a few that topped the ranking. Keep in mind that these 100 games are the highest-grossing games of the year, so you'll see some free-to-play titles sneak into the final group.

Unsurprisingly, Steam doesn't share specific numbers for any of the games – Valve typically leaves that up to the developers – but it does give us some idea of where each game falls by splitting them up into tiers. There are four tiers in total: Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Bronze. Obviously, most games fall into the Bronze category, but there are a significant number that managed to break into Gold, Silver, and Platinum.

Here's the full list of Steam's best-selling games for 2016:

H1Z1: King of the Kill

Stardew Valley

Stellaris

Call of Duty: Black Ops III

ARK: Survival Evolved

ARMA III

Warframe

DOOM

Dead by Daylight

Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege

Team Fortress 2

Dishonored 2

Youtubers Life

Total War: Rome II Emperor Edition

The Forest

Don't Starve Together

Undertale

Path of Exile

Farming Simulator '17

Football Manager 2016

Crusader Kings II

Firewatch

Borderlands 2

Far Cry 4

Rimworld

Starbound

Slime Rancher

Factorio

Steam Controller

Hitman

Endless Legend

Squad

Dragonball Xenoverse 2

Battlerite

Mafia III

Life is Strange

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Battlefleet Gothic: Armada

Train Simulator 2017

Darkest Dungeon

DAY-Z

Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel

Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn

Garry's Mod

Street Fighter V

H1Z1

Terraria

Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

Age of Empires II: HD Edition

Just Cause 3

NBA 2K17

Kerbal Space Program

Grim Dawn

Elite: Dangerous

Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster

Football Manager 2017

7 Days to Die

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare

Total War: Attila

The Culling

Knight Online

Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition

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Tree of Savior

Euro Truck Simulator 2

Astroneer

The Sims 3

Left 4 Dead 2

Scrap Mechanic

Dishonored

American Truck Simulator

A few interesting things that jump out at me: No Man's Sky broke into the Platinum category, despite many problems on launch with the PC port. We can likely chalk that one up to pre-orders, though to its credit, the harsh Steam reviews for No Man's Sky have gotten better as we've moved further out from release. Also interesting is the fact that DOTA 2 made the Platinum cut, as it was the only free-to-play title to do so.

Rocket League proved to be one of the best-selling games – if not the best-selling game – of 2016, so it looks like the community for that title is still going strong. While the Platinum category is mostly made up of triple-A titles, a surprising number of indie titles such as Stardew Valley, ARK, Dead by Daylight, Rust, and Cities Skylines managed to break into the Gold and Silver categories.

We should give special recognition to Garry's Mod, a 2006 sandbox title which has the distinction of being the oldest game on the list. A round of applause is also due for the Steam Controller, which made the list despite not actually being a game. Well done, indeed.

So there you have it – the 100 best-selling products on Steam in 2016. A lot of these are already classics in their own right, though we did see a fair number of 2016 releases break into the list. Did any of your favorites make the cut? Let us know in the comments section!