Monthly report · October 1, 2026
Best-selling Steam games — September 2026
Which Steam games earned the most in September 2026? Each figure below is the change in a game's modelled lifetime revenue across the month — the same arithmetic as the market chart — over 18,601 tracked Steam games with a reading for the month. They are estimates from public review counts and prices, gross of Steam's cut, refunds and taxes; how they are made is on Methodology, and how close they come to figures studios stated is on Accuracy.
The top ten
| # | Game | Gross in the month | Copies |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hearts of Iron IV | $68.6M | 2M |
| 2 | Bodycam | $11.9M | 510.2K |
| 3 | Red Dead Redemption 2 | $10.3M | 244.3K |
| 4 | Crusader Kings III | $8.9M | 255.3K |
| 5 | No Man's Sky | $6.3M | 150.2K |
| 6 | Atomic Heart | $5.7M | 136.4K |
| 7 | Victoria 3 | $5.3M | 152.3K |
| 8 | Cyberpunk 2077 | $5.3M | 125.2K |
| 9 | Project Zomboid | $5M | 287.3K |
| 10 | Valheim | $5M | 239K |
Best launches of September 2026
| # | Game | Gross in the month | Copies |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crimson Moon | $1.6M | 111.5K |
| 2 | WheelMates | $201.6K | 14.4K |
| 3 | Zad Archery | $112.8K | 23.1K |
| 4 | Grail | $86.7K | 12.4K |
| 5 | Not Quite Dead: Open World Survival | $73.5K | 8.1K |
3,022 games were first on sale on Steam in September 2026, 2,717 of them paid. The release tracker lists them.
The market
Tracked Steam games together earned about $923.2M gross in September 2026 (45.2M copies), +2% on the month before and −1% on a year earlier. The market page has the whole series.
Rising genres
- Story Rich — reviews +1377% on the same three months a year earlier
- Crafting — reviews +1055% on the same three months a year earlier
- Cute — reviews +1045% on the same three months a year earlier
Steam events that ran
- Steam PvE Survival Crafting Fest 2026 — Aug 31 to Sep 7
- Steam Programming Fest 2026 — Sep 10 to Sep 14
- VR Sale Event - Fall 2026 — Sep 14 to Sep 21
- Steam Party-Based RPG Fest 2026 — Sep 14 to Sep 21
Written automatically at the start of the next month from GamesBerry's own data, and not edited afterwards. Get the week's version every Monday: GamesBerry Weekly.