{"id":122871,"date":"2018-01-03T15:05:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T13:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=122871"},"modified":"2018-01-03T15:06:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T13:06:07","slug":"the-best-steam-games-of-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/122871-the-best-steam-games-of-2017","title":{"rendered":"The best Steam games of 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steam has revealed its\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/best_of_2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">best games of 2017<\/a><\/strong>, based on data collected throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p>Games are ranked across various categories, including top sellers, best early access graduates, and most-played titles.<\/p>\n<p>The top-selling standard and VR categories were ranked according to gross revenue earned throughout the year, while the most-played rankings measured highest simultaneous players in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The top Early Access graduates include the best games that left Early Access in 2017, ranked according to gross revenue earned throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p>Below are the highest-ranking titles across Steam\u2019s Best of 2017 list.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Top sellers<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Dota 2<\/li>\n<li>Warframe<\/li>\n<li>The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt<\/li>\n<li>Tom Clancy\u2019s Ghost Recon Wildlands<\/li>\n<li>Counter-Strike: Global Offensive<\/li>\n<li>H1Z1<\/li>\n<li>Rocket League<\/li>\n<li>PlayerUnknown\u2019s Battlegrounds<\/li>\n<li>Ark: Survival Evolved<\/li>\n<li>Divinity: Original Sin 2<\/li>\n<li>Grand Theft Auto V<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Top-selling VR games<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Raw Data<\/li>\n<li>Hot Dogs, Horseshoes &amp; Hand Grenades<\/li>\n<li>Arizona Sunshine<\/li>\n<li>Tilt Brush<\/li>\n<li>GORN<\/li>\n<li>SUPERHOT VR<\/li>\n<li>Fallout 4 VR<\/li>\n<li>Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality<\/li>\n<li>Space Pirate Trainer<\/li>\n<li>Onward<\/li>\n<li>Audioshield<\/li>\n<li>Job Simulator<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Early Access graduates<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>PlayerUnknown\u2019s Battlegrounds<\/li>\n<li>Portal Knights<\/li>\n<li>Battlerite<\/li>\n<li>Endless Space 2<\/li>\n<li>The Long Dark<\/li>\n<li>Torment: Tides of Numenera<\/li>\n<li>Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator<\/li>\n<li>Slime Rancher<\/li>\n<li>Everspace<\/li>\n<li>Divinity: Original Sin 2<\/li>\n<li>Ark: Survival Evolved<\/li>\n<li>Day of Infamy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Most played<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>PAYDAY 2<\/li>\n<li>Warframe<\/li>\n<li>Dota 2<\/li>\n<li>PlayerUnknown\u2019s Battlegrounds<\/li>\n<li>Ark: Survival Evolved<\/li>\n<li>Counter-Strike: Global Offensive<\/li>\n<li>H1Z1<\/li>\n<li>Grand Theft Auto V<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/243024-the-steam-winter-sale-2017-has-begun.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The Steam Winter Sale 2017 has begun<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steam has revealed its\u00a0best games of 2017, based on data collected throughout the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":108223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17037,5266,85],"class_list":["post-122871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-17037","tag-best-games","tag-steam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}