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CHARTS: Monster Hunter Rise dominates Steam Top Ten this week

CHARTS: Monster Hunter Rise dominates Steam Top Ten this week

Capcom's Monster Hunter Rise has taken up three out of the ten positions in the Steam charts this week.

New DLC for the title, Sunbreak, came in third place having debuted in second last week after its June 30th release date. The No.6 spot goes to both Monster Hunter Rise and Sunbreak, while seventh goes to the base game alone. Sunbreak has shifted two million copies already

The best-selling title on Steam last week was Valve's Steam Deck hardware, once again. Both Axolot's Raft and F1 2022 from Electronic Arts rose two places week-on-week to No.2 and No.4 respectively.

Void Interactive's Ready or Not returns to the Top Ten in fifth thanks to a new update for the police shooter, while Rust rose one place to No.8 week-on-week.

Rounding off the bottom of the Top Ten are It Takes Two from EA and Red Dead Redemption 2.

Here is the Steam Top Ten for the week ending July 9th:

1. Steam Deck, Valve
2. Raft, Axolot
3. Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak, Capcom
4. F1 2022, EA
5. Ready or Not, Void Interactive
6. Monster Hunter Rise + Sunbreak, Capcom
7. Monster Hunter Rise, Capcom
8. Rust, Facepunch
9. It Takes Two, EA
10. Red Dead Redemption 2, Rockstar


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