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Steam Summer Sale racks up over $200M; ARK: Survival Evolved picks up over $11M

The numbers are in for this year's Steam Summer Sale, courtesy of the folks at SteamSpy. Over $200 million was generated over the two week sale, with ARK: Survival Evolved surprising leading the way, in terms of money earned.

Ozzie Mejia

June 26, 2015 6:25 PM

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Shacknews would like to send readers into the weekend with some raw numbers, thanks to the folks at SteamSpy. This is an online tool that utilizes the Steam API to generate sales data. The site has compiled the numbers and has put together the big moneymakers from the Steam Summer Sale.

Surprisingly, the big winner appears to be ARK: Survival Evolved. Shacknews previously reported on the dinosaur survival game's big earnings in the past. But even with a maximum discount of 17 percent, Steam users picked up the Early Access title in huge numbers. With a little over 445,000 units sold, ARK racked up over $11 million in total revenue.

Other popular pickups include Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, which led the pack in terms of units sold with over 935,000 sales, with The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt trailing just behind it. Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel and Cities: Skylines rounded out the top five revenue-generators. Here's the full chart:

It should be noted that SteamSpy has a disclaimer up, noting that actual figures may be "vastly different," since some games sold in bundles are counted separately. Different price values in various countries are also unaccounted for. As a whole Steam, racked up a whopping $204,295,292 in sales over the course of this year's Summer Sale.

Those looking for more information on ARK: Survival Evolved can check out the game's Steam listing. Shacknews also has a dinosaur taming guide up right now.

Ozzie Mejia

Senior Editor

Ozzie has been playing video games since picking up his first NES controller at age 5. He has been into games ever since, only briefly stepping away during his college years. But he was pulled back in after spending years in QA circles for both THQ and Activision, mostly spending time helping to push forward the Guitar Hero series at its peak. Ozzie has become a big fan of platformers, puzzle games, shooters, and RPGs, just to name a few genres, but he’s also a huge sucker for anything with a good, compelling narrative behind it. Because what are video games if you can't enjoy a good story with a fresh Cherry Coke?