Ready or Not took the first place in the Steam bestseller chart, displacing Halo Infinite

The Ready or Not tactical shooter became the best-selling game on Steam last week, despite the hype around the school shooting level. The previously leading Halo Infinite went to the fourth place of the bestseller chart.

Recall that Ready or Not was released in early access on Steam on December 18. Shortly after that, VOID Interactive, the studio that developed the title, announced a break with the publisher Team17. The reason, most likely, was a controversial mission with a shooting at a school, although neither side directly confirmed this. An indirect confirmation can be considered a letter that VOID Interactive published on Twitter a few days after the incident. In it, the studio explained that it is working on an “authentic and realistic game” and wants to pay tribute to those who suffered in real tragedies with the help of the school level.

The maximum online Ready or Not was on December 26 — on Sunday evening, 19,621 people played the shooter at the same time. At the time of writing the news online has dropped to 12,429, but it’s still about a thousand more people than it was at the start.

The second place in the Steam bestseller chart for the second week in a row is held by the horror Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach. Battlefield 2042 does not give up its position either — it continues to occupy the seventh place.

In third place is It Takes Two. She managed to do it thanks to the sale. Discounts were also returned to the rating of Forza Horizon 5 (fifth place), Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (eighth place) and Red Dead Redemption 2 (tenth place).

Partly due to the discount, Project Zomboid, a zombie survivor that has been in early access since 2013, got into the chart. Strong sales were also facilitated by a fresh update of the title with new content and redesigned multiplayer. The game took the ninth place.