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The top games on Steam for 2023

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Valve’s Steam has come out with the top games of the year for the digital storefront in 2023. It didn’t say much about the games, but here’s the information it shared. We hope you’re having a great holiday season. As for the top games of the year, here’s my own list.

Most Played Games

Sorted alphabetically within each tier.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.