https://store.steampowered.com/charts/mostplayed/
Looking at the most played list on steam is depressing battle royale shit, moba shit, Team Fortress 2 ( almost certainly filled with bots and fake player counts ). I sort of get GTA V because modded private servers but that must be a nightmare to deal with because of how cancerous rockstar studos are these days. I'm going to try and get myself into Terraria after a million years since I bought it because that's singleplayer and offline and doesn't run like shit.
I mean for fuck's sake, even though it's objective trash there are still people clearly downloading and playing Battlefield 2042 of all things. I would sooner watch paint dry than deal with any of this crap that the normies are playing and I can see why all of you retreat to the safe space that is classic gaming but even for me I feel like there's only so many times I can play a game over and over. The games that frequently make their way to the top of the charts are constantly reported on having major technical problems with them and it's mind boggling to me that people will make themselves play that.
We don't have to settle for this.
To be fair to Battlefield 2042, they did do A LOT of patches and ditched the whole 'everyone's a specialist' and reintroduced classes, still won't buy it, if I wanted to play Battlefield again I'd play either 4 or 1.
Multiplayer games are still going to be the top dogs because of their ability to compete with others, the fact CS GO is STILL number 1 (we'd need Epic's figures for Fortnite) shows if you have a solid foundation your game can last for decades and I'm sure the esports and skin markets are helping.
Single player will have the initial jump on release then trail off as people complete it, a lot of the classic games we played as kids would suffer that fate.