Why Is Dota 2 The Biggest Game On Steam? By Michael Cohen on September 11th, 2013 at 5:00 pm. This is the first part in a new series looking at contemporary multiplayer gaming and the e-sports phenomenon. Since Steam’s inception, just a handful of marvellous gems have topped the Steam Stats page. Games like Counter-Strike, Team Fortress 2 and Sid Meier’s Civilization V have earned accolades, snared players in their thousands, and then hovered around the 50,000 mark.
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