And as one of the best game platforms, Steam organizes its most played games, top sellers, and new releases every year. At the end of , Steam announced the most played games It should help if you are looking for the best multiplayer games on Steam. And here are the top 10 games:. The top two are the best free games on Steam.
Some of them are cross-platform, which means users can play games on different devices. In addition to the listed Steam games, there are some other popular games like Minecraft , Roblox , Crossfire , League of Legends , Fortnite , etc.
Windows 11 is released. Figure them out in this post. In addition to old games, Steam released a huge number of new games in And here are the top new releases, according to Steam:. Titles such as Meridian 59 , the first subscription-based game, paved the way for later games like World of WarCraft. However, when Blizzard Entertainment's crowning achievement launched, players around the world were astonished by the sheer size of Azeroth.
Each continent by itself spanned around 41 square miles from tip to tip. Combined, the total landmass for players to explore totaled nearly 80 square miles, an incredible feat for the genre. Bohemia Interactive went for a different approach when designing their open-world game. In , they released their survival horror title known as Day Z. Inspired by a mod built for Arma 2, the game takes place in a zombie-infested, post-Soviet country of Chernarus.
Like any horror game, the goal of Day Z was to gather materials and survive as long as possible. If being lost in a zombie game wasn't enticing enough, Day Z came with an open-world full of hidden dangers.
The fictional country of Chernarus spanned approximately 86 square miles. The goal of Arma 3 was to create a realistic military tactical shooter in an open-world setting. According to the ratings it earned, developer Bohemia Interactive must have succeeded.
With over 20 vehicles and 40 weapons to play with, the third installment released with limitless capabilities within its military sandbox. The events of the game take place in the near future on a series of islands in both the Aegean Sea and South Pacific. Altogether, the photorealistic environments presented in the game spanned nearly square miles, making a perfect sandbox to get lost in. One of the earlier iterations of military-style games in open-worlds was none other than Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising.
This tactical shooter, developed by Codemasters, threw players into realistic, modern infantry combat in large scale battles.
This installment, in particular, acted as a standalone sequel to Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis. The game takes place on the fictional island of Skira, off the coast of China.
The island offers a whopping square miles of play area from top to bottom, delivering a very realistic island battle map. This sequel managed to improve upon the original Xenoblade Chronicles in every way, but one of the biggest improvements was to the size of the world map.
Xenoblade Chronicles X takes place on the planet of Mira. This planet is the new home for humanity after Earth was destroyed and the colony of New Los Angeles was established there. The world map in Xenoblade Chronicles X is sq.
This game is unique among the games on this list in that the player can explore the world in a large mechanized battle-suit. The Just Cause series is famous for giving players a huge world to explore, and Just Cause 3 is no exception with a map covering sq. This game takes place on an island in the Mediterranean called Medici. The days of linear storylines are long gone. The future of gaming is open-world games. As video game consoles continue to grow in power and size, so do the worlds that live inside these games.
The land areas of some of the games today are massive and it is all thanks to the consoles ability to handle the memory needed to run such a game. Upon its release for the console, The Elder Scrolls V , which is best known as just Skyrim , was seen as an amazing work of video game art. The scenery is so beautiful, and high-quality, that you can sometimes find yourself getting actually lost in the forest, for hours, just exploring the vast land area.
The gameplay was built around the size of the map, so there are not many details missing from it. It gives the player a real sense of being in the game even when simply roaming around, looking for a place to build a house. Keep in mind that Skyrim is just a piece of an even larger map. As far as open world video games with large gameplay maps are concerned, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion was one of the very first games that truly took advantage of the console it was released on. Back in , there just was not very many video games that had maps that stretch to nearly 16 square miles while allowing the player a chance to explore the entire map, from inch to inch, and follow a somewhat linear story combined with an array of amazingly complex side stories.
Oblivion will forever be a pioneer in the open world market and it is amazing that it remains in the top 25 nearly 13 years later. The film has only been around since , but it has helped to create an entirely new way to enjoy video games. But when it comes to land size, and area maps, PlayerUnknown's Battleground is the champion with a Due to the nature of the gameplay, Assassin's Creed Rogue has a very large map, about The addition of the ship battles have given the Assassin's Creed franchise a reason to expand its gaming area and grow the overall quality of play.
However, because of all their attention to detail, and the ability to upgrade the Morrigan, there need to be some sacrifices or the game would be nearly impossible to run on a console today.
That simply means the future of gaming is going to be as bright as the evolution of the gaming console. As they improve, so does the video game. There are not very many fan bases that are as dedicated to their game as Zelda fans. Every single time a new Zelda game hits the open market, fans of the franchise quickly grab it and explore.
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has given those fans a reason for excitement thanks to its very large land area. The game is so large, the entire map from Skyrim could fit inside of it. In other words, it is not just the map that is large, it is the game. Some games have massive land area maps, but you can only explore a percentage of it. This game allows you to free roam the entire map, corner to corner.
The land area of video games are estimated sizes based on various types of measuring and scaling back and forth between other open-world games. Our numbers are not perfect, or exact. They are guesses drawn from various sources and our own measuring. That brings us to Red Dead Redemption 2 , the prequel to the hit video game Red Dead Redemption , and it's impressively large gaming map that many have estimated to be around 29 square miles. That is much smaller than earlier estimates, before the game his the shelves, that claimed that the map was the largest one ever created by Rockstar.
But after measuring it, we come closer to the 29 square miles we listed above, which is a couple square miles less than GTA V. Although gamers are going to disagree, we have found that the largest game map in the Far Cry franchise belongs to Far Cry 2 , with a land size of 31 square miles.
The other games in the series come close but are just a few miles short of this one. To keep things in perspective, if you have the game then take a walk from one end to the other, see how long it takes.
It could take close to an hour to walk the entire map, if our measurements are correct, and we believe they most certainly are. If you are wondering why Rockstar games have found so much success without shoving games in our faces just about every six months, it is because of who they are as a company. They believe in being an original, not a follower.
They go out of their way to create a game that can stand alone as a truly unique masterpiece. That is why GTA V is still one of the highest grossing games in the world even after nearly six years since it was released. The game was built using maps of Los Angeles and Southern California. This helped game designers create a map that covers 31 square miles and includes mountains, skyscrapers, deserts, and an army base that would make even the U.
Military proud. In order to truly test the size of this map, you need to get the game and explore. So, after some rigorous testing, we discovered that the time it takes to get from one end of the map to the other, at roughly three times the normal walking speed, it can take close to 20 minutes in real time.
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