Criticized but Bought: Atomic Heart Breaks into Russian Steam Chart Top 1 Day After Regional Release

Valve recently summarized the past week in the Steam store. The company published the game sales chart for the period from July 28 to August 4 of this year.

Many foreign new releases are not sold in Russia, and the free-to-play Dota 2 and Counter-Strike 2 are particularly popular. These two Valve games often occupy the first two positions in the chart and periodically swap places — which also happened last week.

The top three was rounded out by the popular survival game Rust. The shooter Atomic Heart, which appeared on Steam for Russia and CIS countries yesterday, took fourth place. At the same time, the game is not subject to discounts, and on the forum, some Steam users joke and criticize the developers who "returned" to the Valve service (before that, the game in the CIS and Russia was available on PC only on VK Play).

Top 10 sales including free-to-play products (compiled by revenue volume):

1. Dota 2
2. Counter-Strike 2
3. Rust
4. Atomic Heart
5. Mistfall Hunter
6. PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS
7. MECCHA CHAMELEON
8. Baldur's Gate 3
9. Zenless Zone Zero
10. Escape from Tarkov

Top 10 sales excluding free-to-play projects (compiled by revenue volume):

1. Rust
2. Atomic Heart
3. Mistfall Hunter
4. MECCHA CHAMELEON
5. Baldur’s Gate 3
6. Escape from Tarkov
7. Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
8. DragonSword : Awakening
9. Corsair Cove
10. Squad