Steam’s top 20 new games for July 2021

Valve has released its list of the best-performing new games on Steam for the month of July, and familiar franchises and debut hits are all on the list. While fans showed up for the latest ports of the original 8-bit Final Fantasy games, you’ll also find new properties like Death’s Door, The Ascent, and Chernobylite among the top 20. The full list is at the bottom of this page.

As usual for Steam, the store is attracting a wide variety of tastes and interests. And sometimes you can see that reflected in a single game that attempts to incorporate multiple genres into its mechanics and story. In a blog post about July’s sales, Valve points to Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin as an excellent example of the kind of game that doesn’t fit neatly into one box.