June has been a busy month for game releases. A lot has been stirring up the gaming industry, from E3 2020's cancellation to the chaos surrounding the Summer Games Fest. Naturally, people want to know which titles have come out ahead in the race to entice players, and one sure fire way to tell is to see which publishers' games made it to the top of Steam's Top Releases last month.

The Top Releases on Steam are based on the number of copies sold over the course of a month via Valve's platform, not the number of copies sold overall. It should also be noted that games previously released on other platforms made available via Steam in June also qualify for the rankings.

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"Electronic Arts (EA) stormed the charts this month," Valve writes, noting that 8 of the top 20 games were EA titles. The sheer volume of EA titles released on Steam June 18th makes this result unsurprising. The titles which had been released previously through Origin and other avenues include The Sims 4, Crysis 3, and Star Wars Battlefront 2. The only titles EA specifically released this June were The Sims 4: Eco Lifestyle and The Command & Conquer Remastered Collection.

The publishers jockeying for second place in the 'top selling releases' race in June with two titles each are Annapurna Interactive (Journey and Outer Wilds both made the list), THQ Nordic (Desperados III and Spongebob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated were top sellers, Destroy All Humans wasn't), and Quantic Dream (Beyond: Two Souls and Detroit: Become Human were hot, Heavy Rain was not).

Top Steam Releases for June 2020

Six developers only managed to get one title in the top 20 list for June, not for lack of trying. Those who only produced one title for June, namely Coffee Stain Publishing (Satisfactory), Focus Home Interactive (Hardspace: Shipbreaker), Klei Entertainment (Griftlands), Perfect World Entertainment (Torchlight III), SEGA (Persona 4 Golden), and Xbox Game Studios (Sea of Thieves) can still be proud of their accomplishments.

For now, EA gets to sit comfortably at the top of the sales charts, but its position there is not likely to last long. It has pretty much finished porting its collection to Steam, and its next release on Steam, Madden NFL 21, won't be out until August. There are many competing game titles expected to release in August, including the PC port of Horizon Zero DawnProject Cars, Wasteland 3, Serious Sam 4, and Tell Me Why. The relaunch of the iconic Microsoft Flight Simulator and Battletoads is also bound to give EA a run for its money.

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Source: Steam