Top Steam Publishers by Revenue
Which publishers move real volume and which ride a single hit, across every publisher on Steam · Updated Oct 5, 2026
| Publisher | Top Game | Distribution |
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FromSoftware, Inc., Bandai Namco Entertainment | 4 | $2.8B |  ELDEN RING$2.1B | $313.6M | |
Game Science | 3 | $2.2B |  Black Myth: Wukong$2.2B | $0 | |
PlayStation Publishing LLC | 25 | $1.8B |  HELLDIVERS 2$1B | $13.1M | |
Xbox Game Studios | 70 | $1.6B | $2.7M | ||
Electronic Arts | 156 | $1.5B |  Battlefield™ 6$389.5M | $85.9K | |
CAPCOM Co., Ltd. | 53 | $1.4B |  Monster Hunter Wilds$299.1M | $3.1M | |
CD PROJEKT RED | 8 | $1.2B |  The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt$674.8M | $407.7K | |
Larian Studios | 7 | $1.2B |  Baldur's Gate 3$1.1B | $305K | |
Bethesda Softworks | 69 | $982M |  The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim$190.6M | $1.7M | |
Activision | 75 | $846.5M | $430.4K | ||
Facepunch Studios | 5 | $844.9M |  Rust$842.3M | $266.7K | |
Coffee Stain Publishing | 16 | $809.6M |  Valheim$451.2M | $1.2M | |
Ubisoft | 165 | $724.6M | $262.7K | ||
Paradox Interactive | 77 | $689.5M |  Hearts of Iron IV$162.7M | $185K | |
Rockstar Games | 25 | $642.6M |  Red Dead Redemption 2$415.7M | $1.1M | |
2K | 92 | $530.2M |  Borderlands 4$91.1M | $35.5K | |
Team Cherry | 2 | $508.2M |  Hollow Knight: Silksong$254.6M | $254.1M | |
SEGA | 182 | $483.9M |  Persona 5 Royal$76.2M | $68.2K | |
Bohemia Interactive | 44 | $477.8M |  DayZ$352.7M | $11.8K | |
Activision, Aspyr (Mac) | 3 | $433.6M |  Call of Duty: Black Ops III$422.1M | $11.4M | |
Square Enix | 156 | $429.4M |  NieR:Automata$73.8M | $418.2K | |
Valve | 38 | $405.5M |  Garry's Mod$189.9M | $202.9K | |
KONAMI | 57 | $405.3M |  SILENT HILL 2$138.6M | $277.5K | |
Bandai Namco Entertainment | 33 | $394.3M |  ACE COMBAT 7: SKIES UNKNOWN$102.9M | $1.6M | |
Pearl Abyss | 3 | $372.8M |  Crimson Desert$370M | $2.8M |
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$2.8B
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$407.7K
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$982M
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$809.6M
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$262.7K
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$724.6M
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$3.99
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$185K
Total Revenue
$689.5M
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$3.74
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$1.1M
Total Revenue
$642.6M
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$35.5K
Total Revenue
$530.2M
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$254.1M
Total Revenue
$508.2M
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$17.49
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$68.2K
Total Revenue
$483.9M
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$2.49
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$11.8K
Total Revenue
$477.8M
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426
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$1.59
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$11.4M
Total Revenue
$433.6M
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$418.2K
Total Revenue
$429.4M
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$8.84
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$202.9K
Total Revenue
$405.5M
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$277.5K
Total Revenue
$405.3M
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$1.6M
Total Revenue
$394.3M
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The Biggest Video Game Publishers on Steam
Publishing revenue on Steam is extraordinarily concentrated. The top 100 publishers account for roughly $68 billion, close to three quarters of everything earned across the entire publisher list. Electronic Arts, PlayStation Publishing, Xbox Game Studios and Bethesda sit at the front, but the ranking rewards whoever you sort by: catalog revenue favours the majors, while median revenue per title surfaces smaller houses that back fewer, better-chosen games.
Catalog Size Is Not the Same as Revenue
The publishers at the top got there in two very different ways. Electronic Arts reaches that level on a catalog running well into the hundreds. CD PROJEKT RED sits in the same revenue bracket on a handful of games. Sorting by total revenue rewards volume, so read it next to the title count and the median column to tell a publisher with one enormous hit apart from one with a deep, consistently earning catalog.
Most Steam Games Have No Publisher at All
Around seven in ten released games on Steam list the same name as developer and publisher, which means they are self-published. That is the default outcome rather than the exception, and it reframes what this table is: the companies here are the minority who took on someone else's game. If you are weighing whether to sign with a publisher, the useful comparison is not what the majors earn but what a publisher's median title earns against what comparable self-published games make.
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