GameDiscoverCo: Top releases of August 2025 on PC and consoles
Titan Quest II, Mafia: The Old Country & Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater lead the newcomers charts.
Top new releases on Steam - copies sold
Titan Quest II (432.1K copies), Mafia: The Old Country (427.5K copies), and Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War - Definitive Edition (376K copies) were the leaders in Steam sales by copies in August.
On consoles, Mafia: The Old Country sold over 700K copies. Apparently, players feel this is the kind of game best experienced on the big screen.
Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater launched on Steam with 238.9K copies sold. But it had only 5 days in August.
Interestingly, two games from the Stickman universe (if you can call it that) made it into the top 10 by units sold in August: Stick It To The Stickman (121.5K copies) and A Few Quick Matches (106.1K copies). Both are budget projects, of course, but the story is notable.
Top new releases on Steam - Gross revenue
Unsurprisingly, the expensive projects (Mafia: The Old Country - $18.8M Gross Revenue; Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater - $14.9M Gross Revenue) and Titan Quest II ($9.4M Gross Revenue) took the top spots.
Interestingly, as GameDiscoverCo points out, Gears of War Reloaded did not make the Steam top 10 in August. The updated version was sold only 55K times, hurt by the lack of split-screen and the earlier availability of remasters.
Top Steam games in August - copies sold
F2P releases are not counted.
Peak continues to sell amazingly well. In August alone, it sold 3.7M copies. Mage Arena is also showing great results with 1.2M copies sold.
Thanks to a 65% discount, many people (830.8K) bought Cyberpunk 2077. Helldivers II also saw sales growth thanks to a Halo ODST collab.
Battlefield 6 was pre-ordered 751.6K times in August. Meanwhile, Battlefield 2042 was bought 775K times, and the 95% discount did the trick.
Top Steam games in August - Gross revenue
GameDiscoverCo includes F2P project revenue in this chart.
Counter-Strike 2 ($154.8M revenue) was the absolute leader in August (and not only August).
PUBG: Battlegrounds is also doing well ($56.7M). EA already made $52.6M on pre-orders for Battlefield 6.
Marvel Rivals kept its top-5 position, earning $22.5M in August.
The mobile game Uma Musume: Pretty Derby made it to 10th place on Steam in August, earning $13.6M.
Top new releases on PlayStation and Xbox in August
EA’s Madden NFL 26 sold 1.1M copies on each console—the biggest August release. 95% of all sales came from the U.S.
On PlayStation, Gears of War Reloaded arrived and sold almost 300K copies in August. On Xbox, Helldivers II launched and gained over half a million new players.