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Estimated revenue, market economics, and the top games tagged Difficult on Steam.
For developers
Total estimated revenue of Difficult games, grouped by the year they launched — a release-cohort trend, not a live time-series. Recent years are still accumulating revenue after launch.
Leaderboard
| # | Game | Est. revenue | Reviews | Score | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ELDEN RING | $973.5M | 824K | 93% | $59.99 |
| 2 | Black Myth: Wukong | $794.8M | 1.2M | 97% | $59.99 |
| 3 | HELLDIVERS™ 2 | $611.7M | 831.4K | 76% | $39.99 |
| 4 |
| Year | Releases | Median rev | $100k+ | $1M+ | Total genre revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 26 | $864.8K | 100% | 46% | $205M |
| 2025 | 54 | $918.1K | 98% | 48% | $544M |
| 2024 | 57 | $1.1M | 93% | 51% | $1.6B |
| 2023 | 66 | $892K | 86% | 45% | $576.8M |
| 2022 | 56 | $794.1K | 88% | 45% | $1.1B |
| 2021 | 69 | $676.6K | 88% | 38% | $238.7M |
| 2020 | 83 | $1.2M | 84% | 52% | $820M |
| 2019 | 103 | $627.1K | 76% | 37% | $1B |
| 2018 | 94 | $870.2K | 78% | 48% | $748.2M |
| 2017 | 86 | $431K | 64% | 35% | $414.8M |
| 2016 | 111 | $995.5K | 78% | 49% | $1.1B |
| 2015 | 102 | $693.5K | 81% | 44% | $503.3M |
Median beats average here: genre revenue is hit-driven, so the median shows what the typical Difficult launch actually earned. Recent years accumulate revenue for a while after launch.
| DARK SOULS™ III |
| $467M |
| 437.9K |
| 94% |
| $59.99 |
| 5 | Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition | $305.9M | 352.2K | 95% | $59.99 |
| 6 | Don't Starve Together | $164.6M | 539.4K | 95% | $14.99 |
| 7 | STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor™ | $141.7M | 78.6K | 71% | $69.99 |
| 8 | Hades | $135.1M | 283.4K | 98% | $24.99 |
| 9 | Hollow Knight: Silksong | $134.4M | 415.1K | 89% | $19.99 |
| 10 | Monster Hunter: World | $130.6M | 314.6K | 89% | $29.99 |
| 11 | Kerbal Space Program | $126.7M | 118.6K | 96% | $39.99 |
| 12 | Resident Evil 2 | $114.8M | 218.1K | 97% | $39.99 |
| 13 | Risk of Rain 2 | $113.9M | 238.3K | 94% | $24.99 |
| 14 | Slay the Spire 2 | $103M | 190.9K | 60% | $24.99 |
| 15 | WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers | $102M | 103.8K | 56% | $49.99 |
| 16 | ULTRAKILL | $101.2M | 208K | 97% | $29.99 |
| 17 | Hollow Knight | $99.9M | 552.5K | 97% | $14.99 |
| 18 | Frostpunk | $97M | 136.2K | 93% | $29.99 |
| 19 | DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin | $93M | 130.6K | 84% | $39.99 |
| 20 | Lies of P | $89.2M | 57K | 92% | $59.99 |
| 21 | Bloons TD 6 | $88.3M | 391.1K | 97% | $13.99 |
| 22 | The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth | $87.7M | 390.7K | 97% | $14.99 |
| 23 | ARMORED CORE™ VI FIRES OF RUBICON™ | $87.6M | 84.9K | 92% | $59.99 |
| 24 | Darkest Dungeon® | $83.5M | 160.6K | 92% | $24.99 |
| 25 | Hunt: Showdown 1896 | $80.3M | 211K | 75% | $29.99 |
| 26 | Hades II | $78.5M | 112.3K | 96% | $29.99 |
| 27 | Ori and the Will of the Wisps | $77.7M | 135.2K | 97% | $29.99 |
| 28 | DOOM Eternal | $77.5M | 216K | 91% | $29.99 |
| 29 | Slay the Spire | $77.4M | 189.7K | 97% | $24.99 |
| 30 | Oxygen Not Included | $74.8M | 142.7K | 97% | $24.99 |
| 31 | DOOM | $71M | 219.9K | 96% | $19.99 |
| 32 | DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED | $67M | 98.9K | 92% | $39.99 |
| 33 | Cuphead | $62.3M | 217K | 96% | $19.99 |
| 34 | Dead Cells | $61.3M | 154.9K | 97% | $24.99 |
| 35 | The Long Dark | $58.3M | 122.9K | 89% | $19.99 |
| 36 | Elite Dangerous | $57.1M | 106.9K | 77% | $19.99 |
| 37 | Balatro | $55.4M | 195.2K | 98% | $14.99 |
| 38 | Valheim | $54M | 538.1K | 94% | $9.99 |
| 39 | Kerbal Space Program 2 | $51.2M | 31.9K | 26% | $49.99 |
| 40 | Assetto Corsa Competizione | $48M | 47.4K | 93% | $39.99 |
| 41 | My Summer Car | $46.4M | 115.6K | 95% | $14.99 |
| 42 | Geometry Dash | $44.3M | 623.2K | 93% | $4.99 |
| 43 | Broken Arrow | $44.3M | 33.2K | 52% | $49.99 |
| 44 | Men of War: Assault Squad 2 | $43.3M | 46.5K | 91% | $29.99 |
| 45 | The First Berserker: Khazan | $43.1M | 31.4K | 85% | $59.99 |
| 46 | Alien: Isolation | $42.7M | 48K | 93% | $39.99 |
| 47 | METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE | $42.2M | 68.8K | 96% | $29.99 |
| 48 | Nioh 2 – The Complete Edition | $39M | 50.3K | 87% | $49.99 |
| 49 | Noita | $37.2M | 87.9K | 95% | $19.99 |
| 50 | Resident Evil 4 (2005) | $36.9M | 96.9K | 94% | $19.99 |