June 18, 2025 by Rhys Elliott

Last week's biggest games on Steam (week 24): Stellar Blade and Dune dominate as discounted legacy games do well

Our Steam estimates for week 24 are in! Last week – as ever – was eventful, with three big new launches, continued indie greatness, and some games that returned to the spotlight due to heavy discounts.

Let’s have a gander.

Stellar Blade and Dune launched into the top spots

Stellar Blade sold 527 K copies and generated revenues of $27.6 million on Steam last week. This means it comfortably took the top spot for Steam copies sold on our week 24 ranking (by a lead of over 250 K!).

Overall, Stellar Blade has now sold 1.1 million copies on Steam (revenues of over $54 million). Why did this PlayStation-published port perform so well? In a word: China, which accounts for 56% of Stellar Blade’s Steam audience.

We dive into this and other factors for Stellar Blade’s success in this article, which also includes China data on other big franchises like Monster Hunter and Diablo.

Dune: Awakening was #2 on week 24’s Steam ranking, with 271 K copies and revenues of over $10 million.

While it didn’t quite make the one-million mark overall (it’s now sold 923 K copies), Dune is retaining players well so far and is still attracting over 300 K DAUs, with minimal drop-off so far.

Want to see our D7, D30, and other retention data in action for revenues, followers, copies sold, and players? We’d love to show you, so reach out for a demo and trial of the platform.

As for the future, Dune is sitting on 2.7 million Steam wishlists right now, so if Funcom drops the price below $50, Dune would shoot way past the million mark (and beyond).

Two regulars in the ranking and a discounted classic round off the top 5

Anyone who’s been following our weekly and monthly Steam rankings won’t be too surprised by the next two:

• R.E.P.O, an indie co-op survival horror game, took #3 with another 188 K copies sold between June 9 and 15, bringing its lifetime copies sold to 15 million (revenues of $117 million!). Over half of R.E.P.O players have played either Left 4 Dead 2 or Phasmophobia, again highlighting the potential of the co-op horror genre – when done right or with a unique spin.

• Elden Ring’s standalone PVE spinoff, Nightreign, took #4 with 165 K copies sold last week. It’s sold 2.3 million copies on Steam to date (with another 1.2 million on PlayStation). It’s struggling to retain players, as DAUs are rapidly decaying.

• But that’s OK, as almost 60% of Nightreign’s Steam players have played for over 20 hours (and 20% for over 50 hours). Many players, it seems, are satisfied with their time in FromSoftware’s first souls-like PVE-first romp.

• Nightreign’s players have their eyes set on another big souls-like this year (albeit a 2D one), as over 11% of its Steam players have wishlisted Hollow Knight: Silksong.

Nightreign generated $5.3 million in revenue on Steam last week versus R.E.P.O’s $1.5 million. As always, price matters (more on that soon!), as Nightreign costs $40 and R.E.P.O costs $10.

Rounding off the top 5 is Mortal Shell, with 121 K copies sold. While this challenging action RPG first launched over 5 years ago, it sold so many copies last week due to a huge discount.

Playstack dropped Mortal Shell’s price from $30 to just $1.50 on June 8, its first discount this year, and its heaviest ever (half its previous lowest price of $3).

Mortal Shell II, coming in 2026, was unveiled at Summer Games Fest. The first game’s discount was a sound marketing tactic to promote the franchise among new audiences (but it also helped convert around 10 K wishlisters to buy).

Mortal Shell II now has over 150K wishlists on Steam, with numbers climbing steadily in the days since the first game’s discount.

An indie and a new 11 bit launch took #6 and #7

Guilty as Sock! sold 102 K copies on Steam last week, helping it take the #6 spot. The absurd $5 online party game sees players taking the role of some socks (yes, socks) with different roles in a courtroom. It’s continuing to build a niche audience with its charming chaos.

Owing to Guilty as Sock!’s $1.8 million in revenues and nearing 500 K copies sold in total, we expect that the lean six-person Demon Max team is happy with this modest but respectable success. A console port and Game Pass/PlayStation Plus deal could take things even further.

The Alters (#7) sold 95 K copies on Steam (revenues of $2.3 million) last week, after Poland-based 11 bit studios launched it on Friday the 13^th^ (risky!). The genre-bending emotional sci-fi title combines survival, base-building, and action mechanics to great effect, with The Alters landing with critics (84 on Metacritic).

To date, The Alters has sold 123 K copies on Steam and crossed the three-million-dollar revenue mark. China accounts for more players than any other market (45%), followed by the US (16%), and Russia (6%).

11 bit made sure to add simplified Chinese language options in the interface and subtitles – to great effect. This is no surprise, as China is also the top market for Steam players of other 11 bit games like Frostpunk, Frostpunk 2, This War of Mine (more on that one later), and others.

We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: China is vital for game dev success on Steam – and increasingly console – these days.

The Alters has a wishlist balance just shy of a million on Steam (18% via the US), so we’re expecting a long tail on this one as the price continues to drop over time.

Speaking of 11 bit…

Discounts galore: Three games with their biggest discounts yet take the last three spots

The last three games in the ranking are legacy titles that each sold between 84 K and 86 K copies last week, due to discounts.

11 bit’s This War of Mine (#8 with 86 K copies sold) saw its Steam price dropping to its lowest-ever price of $1.

On one day last week alone, This War of Mine sold 17 K copies, the most it’s sold in one day since August last year, when it was discounted to $3 as part of Steam’s From Poland with Love promotion.

Gearbox’s Borderlands 3 (#9 with 84 K sold) also had its biggest-ever discount last week (to $3) – no doubt a bid to drum up hype for Borderlands 4 (coming in Q4).

While throwing shade on the Borderlands franchise has become somewhat in vogue online, the franchise is quietly a tier-1 franchise in the industry. Borderlands 3 has sold in 22M+ copies to date (as per Take-Two).

Our estimates show that Borderlands 3 has sold a total of 8.6 million copies on Steam overall. Here’s a quick screengrab of our platform showing off a little more high-level data for Borderlands 3:

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Meanwhile, Borderlands 4 already has 1.7 million wishlists on Steam, a number we expect to see spiking as the game’s pre-launch campaign kicks off in earnest.

Following the critically panned Borderlands movie last year, which also flopped commercially despite an all-star cast, Borderlands 4 looks to be a return to form for the popular franchise.

Finally, horror blockbuster Resident Evil Village took #10 with 84 K copies sold on Steam last week, after a 75% price drop to $10 on June 6 as part of the Capcom Publisher Sale event on Steam.

Village has now sold a total of 3.6 million copies on Steam (revenues of about $100 million), as Capcom looks ahead to next year’s Resident Evil Requiem (RE9).

RE9 now has a Steam wishlist balance of 836 K, thanks to its premier slot in Summer Games Fest. As fans of the franchise, we at Alinea cannot wait to play RE9 at gamescom 2025 later this summer.

And we’ve also been scooping up plenty of the discounted in this article (the ones we haven’t played yet, anyway!) On that note, discounts obviously lead to more game sales, but discovering price points that convert consumers is more complicated.

We track the price of all games in the Alinea platform. So if you want to check how your competitor’s game performance changes with pricing, reach out and we’ll let you know.