Starfield is surprisingly absent from Steam's 2024 bestsellers list despite taking a top spot in 2023

Valve has published its annual Best of Steam list for 2024, ranking the year's top games in various categories. The top-sellers list for 2024 bears a lot of similarity to that one 2023, with one notable exception: Starfield is nowhere to be seen.

Valve doesn't release sales data for individual games, so we can't say how much any particular title on the list pulled in: Instead, they're randomly sorted in "buckets"—platinum, gold, silver, and bronze—indicating their relative success. Given...