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Blockbuster BANGERS

Written by Jordan Allen Lewis · list · updated 45m ago

The huge ones that are also worth the money.

Most huge games are priced like they know they are huge. 200 games on Steam carry a SteamSpy owner estimate of at least five million, and 68 of them also clear a BANG of 82. That ratio is the point of the list.

I set the score gate at 82 instead of 78, and it costs me something real. DOOM Eternal misses at 64.1. Among Us misses at 79.8. Dropping to 78 would add 16 games, and I would rather lose those than run a list where anything with a marketing budget qualifies. Left 4 Dead 2 survives at 97.5 with 10.3 hours and 1,057,406 reviews. Stardew Valley is 97 against 53.4 hours. Baldur's Gate 3 is 92.8 across 73.1 hours, which is the one here I have no argument with.

The owner number is where this gets loose. SteamSpy reports in buckets, and there is no five million bucket: the neighbors are three and a half million and seven and a half million. So at least five million owners really means the seven and a half million bucket or higher, and a game sitting at a true six million is invisible here. The cut also skews old. A 2012 game has had a decade to drift down the price ladder, and Satisfactory, out since 2024, has not.