It's time for another list of great steam games, we will be looking into 35 million reviews
to select a list of high-rated multiplayer games with the highest median playtimes on steam.
Selection criteria
We used the following filters to select the games:
1 - Steam rating > 90 %
We are only interested in high rated games and only included games with a rating above 90%.
2 - Only games
On steam it is also possible to review videos, demo's, hardware, etc. These are not in scope for our list today.
3 - At least 1000 steam reviews
Earlier this month we did a
similar experiment where we focused on unknown gems and exclusively selected games
with less than 1,000 steam reviews.
In this list we will look at games with a larger playerbase and use a minimum of 1,000 reviews.
4 - Only multiplayer games
This post will be part of a two post series:
Creating these lists, we realize that a lot of games have both singleplayer and multiplayer components.
In these cases it wasn't always easy to decide in which category a game belongs.
We asked the following question to determine if a game belongs in the multiplayer category:
"Would this game have a high rating and long game-length without the singleplayer component?"
If the answer to this question is yes, we included the game in the list below. For our singleplayer list,
we did a similar exercise. As a result it is possible for games to appear in both lists.
More detailed playtime-breakdowns can be found on the individual game pages.
- Genre: Action
- Developer: Digital Extremes
- Release date: 25 Mar, 2013
- Rating: 92%
- Steam reviews: 315,465
- Median playtime: 403 hours
- Average playtime: 790 hours
- Genre: Strategy, Simulation
- Developer: Paradox Development Studio
- Release date: 6 Jun, 2016
- Rating: 90%
- Steam reviews: 68,118
- Median playtime: 315 hours
- Average playtime: 469 hours
- Genre: Action, Strategy, Simulation
- Developer: Bohemia Interactive
- Release date: 12 Sep, 2013
- Rating: 90%
- Steam reviews: 142,293
- Median playtime: 304 hours
- Average playtime: 756 hours
- Genre: Action, Strategy
- Developer: CREATIVE ASSEMBLY
- Release date: 28 Sep, 2017
- Rating: 90%
- Steam reviews: 43,882
- Median playtime: 239 hours
- Average playtime: 389 hours
- Genre: Action
- Developer: Valve
- Release date: 10 Oct, 2007
- Rating: 94%
- Steam reviews: 88,771
- Median playtime: 236 hours
- Average playtime: 562 hours
- Genre: Action, Racing, Sports
- Developer: Psyonix LLC
- Release date: 7 Jul, 2015
- Rating: 92%
- Steam reviews: 345,739
- Median playtime: 215 hours
- Average playtime: 456 hours
- Genre: Action, RPG, Indie
- Developer: Grinding Gear Games
- Release date: 23 Oct, 2013
- Rating: 93%
- Steam reviews: 110,322
- Median playtime: 212 hours
- Average playtime: 739 hours
- Genre: Action
- Developer: Valve
- Release date: 1 Nove, 2000
- Rating: 97%
- Steam reviews: 147,310
- Median playtime: 209 hours
- Average playtime: 792 hours
- Genre: Indie, Simulation
- Developer: Facepunch Studios
- Release date: 29 Nov, 2006
- Rating: 97%
- Steam reviews: 60,804
- Median playtime: 181 hours
- Average playtime: 541 hours
- Genre: Action, RPG
- Developer: TaleWorlds Entertainment
- Release date: 31 Mar, 2010
- Rating: 97%
- Steam reviews: 95,132
- Median playtime: 173 hours
- Average playtime: 378 hours
- Genre: Strategy
- Developer: Firaxis Games
- Release date: 23 Sep, 2010
- Rating: 96%
- Steam reviews: 148,521
- Median playtime: 165 hours
- Average playtime: 360 hours
- Genre: Strategy, Casual, Indie
- Developer: Wube Software LTD.
- Release date: 25 Feb, 2016
- Rating: 99%
- Steam reviews: 64,537
- Median playtime: 156 hours
- Average playtime: 326 hours
- Genre: Action, RPG, Indie
- Developer: Re-Logic
- Release date: 16 May, 2011
- Rating: 98%
- Steam reviews: 237,122
- Median playtime: 151 hours
- Average playtime: 268 hours
- Genre: Action, Strategy, RPG
- Developer: The Fun Pimps
- Release date: 13 Dec, 2013
- Rating: 90%
- Steam reviews: 20,469
- Median playtime: 134 hours
- Average playtime: 344 hours
- Genre: Action
- Developer: FromSoftware, Inc.
- Release date: 11 Apr, 2016
- Rating: 92%
- Steam reviews: 144,333
- Median playtime: 119 hours
- Average playtime: 176 hours