Helldivers 2 Soars to the Top on Steam Charts, One Day Before Launch

Helldivers 2 Steam sales

Helldivers 2 might be in for quite the success if Steam charts are anything to go by, as it has managed to take the number-one spot here in the United States for top-seller.

For those living stateside, you may have noticed a new number-one seller on Steam today, and it’s for none other than Arrowheads Game Studios’ Helldivers 2! With the release tomorrow, February 8, Helldivers 2 has managed to move past other top sellers such as Call of Duty (accounts for all COD games under the launcher), Counter-Strike 2, the Steam Deck, and even Palworld!

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Globally, Helldivers 2 is sitting at number five as writing. 

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Mind you, this doesn’t mean that Helldivers 2 has outsold all those games, only that it has garnered more money (game purchases, DLC, and microtransactions available) than those titles on Steam in the last 27 hours. Valves explains this for how the top seller list works on Steam. 

“Top Sellers lists are generated automatically based on all revenue sources for a game, including DLC and in-game transactions. This allows the charts to reflect the games that players are most excited to invest in right now.

For each game, we roll up all the player spending from the trailing 24 hours and then add extra weight to spending in the last 3 hours. That extra weighting of the most recent spending helps Steam to more quickly reflect changes, like a popular new release or a game trending upward.”

Several of the listed titles in the top seller list are free-to-play or paid experiences with extensive microtransactions available. Palworld, which was released last month, is a paid title and sold 12 million copies just last week. Things might have slowed down for it, but we can’t imagine it being that big of a decrease since last week.

To see Helldivers 2 pulling ahead of it, at least in the United States, is quite impressive. Could this be a sign of the success to come? We hope so, as the first Helldivers was highly popular with the PC crowd when it came out for it. Its sequel is looking bigger and better, something that PlayStation 5 and PC gamers will be able to enjoy when it launches tomorrow, February 8.

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