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Rust and Everspace 2 lead the Steam top sellers

Fresh off another all-time concurrent players record, Rust is atop the Steam top sellers list for the third week in a row. Joining it is newcomer Everspace 2, and a surprise entrant towards the bottom.

Once again Rust lands at number one, enjoying sustained popular over the last month or so. In second place, Everspace 2, an action-RPG game where you're a pilot in space that's just come to Steam Early Access. After hosting a successful Kickstarter in 2019, developer Rockfish Games has been hard at work to bring the sequel to fans of the original as quickly as possible, and, well, so far, so good. It's number two on Steam best sellers, and has over a thousand positive reviews on Valve's store.

The middle of the chart has some usual suspects - Cyberpunk 2077, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Phasmophobia. But then, in second-last, is a surprise entrant, Skul: The Hero Slayer, a 2D souls-like game from developer Southpaw Games. Version 1.0 rolled out this week, bringing new story chapters, equipment and more, and Skul's drawn in nearly 20,000 concurrent players to his the quest. Not enough to be in the top 25 on Steam Charts, but enough to become a top seller.

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Steam Global Top Sellers for the Week ending 24 January 2021

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Rust has hit another all-time player count record

Rust just keeps on storming to new player count highs. The survival game's seen a sizeable surge of interest as of late, following a burst of big name attention on Twitch, hitting an all-time player count record earlier this month of 134,483 concurrents on Steam. Now, that's been blown out of the water, with a new peak count of not far off double that figure.

Steam Charts shows that Facepunch Studios' multiplayer game hit an all-time concurrent player count high on Valve's plaltform this past weekend, with the number topping out at an eye-watering 244,394 - significantly beyond the record set just a couple weeks ago. Similarly, SteamDB records an all-time peak of 245,243 concurrent players this weekend.

These numbers might not quite put Rust in the realms of Steam's other biggest hitters, like CS:GO, Dota 2, and PUBG, which often draw in peaks of hundreds of thousands of concurrent players. However, they're far beyond those the sandbox game's used to bringing in, which over the past few years have typically been somewhere between the 50-100k mark.

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Steam Global Top Sellers for the Week ending 17 January 2021

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Meet Welyn, the Robin Hood of Rust

January 14, 2021 This feature was originally published in August 2019.

The punishing world of Rust is a difficult place to survive. Morals are loose, and a well-armed clan eager to steal your hard-earned loot is never far away. Yet there is hope to be found in this lawless land; tales abound of individual players defying the odds, outmanoeuvring and out-thinking their opponents to amazing results.

Welyn, a popular Rust YouTuber, clearly fits this description. He's been making a name for himself within the community for his daring solo heists against much larger clans - typically, ones who have been throwing their weight around and harming the experience for other players.

Like any good heist movie, Welyn's videos always start with the setup. He names the target, which can be anything from an overzealous clan blocking off a plot of land to a group of malicious players ganging up on someone underpowered. He then outlines a plan, with an annotated map or a detailed base recreation setting out his intentions.

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