In 1950 the first ever video game (Bertie the Brain) was made. Since then hundreds of thousands more games have been made with some estimates going above 1 million. But out of all of them some have been more popular than others for example Tetris, RuneScape, Minecraft & PUBG.
List of most played video games
| pay to play
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| pay to play/free to play
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| free to play
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| subscription/free to play
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| subscription
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| subscription/pay to play
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| Company
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Name
|
Total player count
|
Sales
|
Downloads/accounts
|
Other
|
Release date
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| PUBG Corporation
|
PUBG
|
1,245,000,000 (2021)
|
75,000,000
|
1,170,000,000
|
|
2017/12/20
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| Smilegate
|
CrossFire
|
1,000,000,000 (2020)
|
|
1,000,000,000
|
|
2007/5/3
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| Mojang
|
Minecraft
|
738,000,000 (2021)
|
238,000,000
|
500,000,000
|
|
2011/11/18
|
| Neople
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Dungeon Fighter Online
|
700,000,000 (2020)
|
|
700,000,000
|
|
2005/8/?
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| Tencent
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GKART
|
700,000,000 (2020)
|
|
700,000,000
|
|
2008/1/23
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| Google
|
Pac-Man Doodle
|
505,000,000 (2010)
|
|
|
505,000,000
|
2010/5/21
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| King
|
Candy Crush Saga
|
500,000,000 (2014)
|
|
500,000,000
|
|
2012/4/12
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| Innersloth
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Among Us
|
500,000,000 (2020)
|
15,000,000
|
485,000,000
|
|
2018/6/15
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| Microsoft
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Microsoft Solitaire
|
400,000,000 (2015)
|
|
|
400,000,000
|
1990/5/22
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| Miniwan
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Mini World
|
400,000,000 (2020)
|
|
400,000,000
|
|
2015/12/26
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| Nexon
|
Crazyracing Kartrider
|
380,000,000 (2020)
|
|
380,000,000
|
|
2004/6/1
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| Epic Games
|
Fortnite
|
350,000,000 (2020)
|
|
350,000,000
|
|
2017/7/25
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| NetEase
|
Fantasy Westward Journey
|
310,000,000 (2015)
|
|
310,000,000
|
|
2001/12/?
|
| Jagex
|
RuneScape
|
280,000,000 (2020)
|
|
280,000,000
|
|
2001/1/4
|
| NetEase
|
Rules of Survival
|
230,000,000 (2018)
|
|
230,000,000
|
|
2017/11/17
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sources
wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-played_video_games_by_player_count wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-played_mobile_games_by_player_count wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_games