This list lists the most played video games ordered by their estimated player count, including downloads, registered accounts, and monthly active users. This list does not include games with official sales figures; those are located on the list of best-selling video games page instead. This list is also not comprehensive because player counts are not always publicly available, reliable, or up-to-date.
The list does not include mobile games unless versions of the game have also been released on non-mobile platforms. See the list of most played mobile games by player count for a separate list of mobile titles. Tencent publishes the top four most-played video games on this list.
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) is an online multiplayer battle royale game developed and published by PUBG Corporation, a subsidiary of South Korean video game company Bluehole. The game is based on previous mods created by Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene for other games, inspired by the 2000 Japanese film Battle Royale, and expanded into a standalone game under Greene's creative direction. In the game, up to one hundred players parachute onto an island and scavenge for weapons and equipment to kill others while avoiding getting killed themselves. The available safe area of the game's map decreases in size over time, directing surviving players into tighter areas to force encounters. The last player or team standing wins the round.
PUBG was first released for Microsoft Windows via Steam's early access beta program in March 2017, with a full release in December 2017. The game was also released by Microsoft Studios for the Xbox One via its Xbox Game Preview program that same month and officially released in September 2018. PUBG Mobile, a free-to-play mobile game version for Android and iOS, was released in 2018 and a port for the PlayStation 4. A version for the Stadia streaming platform was released in April 2020. PUBG is one of the best-selling, highest-grossing, and most-played video games of all time. The game has sold over 70 million copies on personal computers and game consoles as of 2020, in addition to PUBG Mobile accumulating 1 billion downloads as of March 2021 and grossing over $4.3 billion on mobile devices as of December 2020.
PUBG received positive reviews from critics, who found that while the game had some technical flaws, it presented new types of gameplay that players of any skill level could easily approach and was highly replayable. The game was attributed to popularizing the battle royale genre, with several unofficial Chinese clones also being produced following its success. The game also received several Game of the Year
CrossFire
CrossFire is an online tactical first-person shooter game developed by Smilegate Entertainment for Microsoft Windows. It was first released in South Korea on May 3, 2007.
Due to its popularity in Asia, especially China and South Korea, it has become the world's most played video game by player count,[1] with a lifetime total of 1 billion users in 80 countries worldwide.[2] It was the world's top-grossing online game as of 2014,[3] and went on to become one of the highest-grossing video games of all time,[4] having grossed $12 billion in lifetime revenue as of 2018.
The game has spawned a media franchise. A film adaptation of the game was announced in October 2015.[5] A Chinese television drama series based on the game (named Cross Fire/穿越火线(网络剧)premiered in July 2020, starring Luhan and Leo Wu. It became a commercial success with more than 1.7 billion views in China as of October 2020.
Dungeon Fighter
Dungeon Fighter Online, also known as DFO, is a multiplayer beat them up action role-playing game developed and published for personal computers by Neople, a South Korean subsidiary of Nexon, and initially published by Hangame in 2005. The game was originally released in South Korea as Dungeon & Fighter (던전앤파이터) and in Japan as Arad Senki (アラド戦記, Arado Senki, lit. War Records of Arad). In China, the game is published by Tencent.[6] In 2014, Neople began an alpha test of a global version of Dungeon Fighter Online using the last English version hosted by Nexon, which has since ended.
DFO is one of the most played and highest-grossing video games of all time, exceeding 700 million players worldwide and having grossed over $15 billion in lifetime revenue as of May 2020. This also makes it one of the highest-grossing entertainment media products of all time. The game has received Japanese anime and manga adaptations.
Minecraft
Minecraft is a sandbox video game developed by the Swedish video game developer Mojang Studios. Markus "Notch" Persson created the game in the Java programming language. Following several early private testing versions, it was first made public in May 2009 before fully releasing in November 2011, with Jens Bergensten then taking over development. Minecraft has since been ported to several other platforms and is the best-selling video game of all time, with 200 million copies sold and 126 million monthly active users as of 2020.
In Minecraft, players explore a blocky, procedurally-generated3D world with virtually infinite terrain and may discover and extract raw materials, craft tools, and items, and build structures or earthworks. Depending on the game mode, players can fight computer-controlled mobs and cooperate with or compete against other players in the same world. Game modes include a survival mode, in which players must acquire resources to build the world and maintain health, and a creative mode, where players have unlimited resources and access to flight. Players can modify the game to create new gameplay mechanics, items, and assets.
Candy Crush Saga
is a free-to-play match-three puzzle video game released by King on April 12, 2012, for Facebook; other versions for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and Windows 10 followed. It is a variation of their browser game Candy Crush.[1]
In the game, players complete levels by swapping colored pieces of candy on a game board to make a match of three or more of the same color, eliminating those candies from the board and replacing them with new ones, which could create further conflicts. Matches of four or more candies make unique sweets that act as power-ups with more enormous board-clearing abilities. Boards have various goals that must be completed within a fixed number of moves or limited amount of time, such as a particular score or collecting a specific number of a type of candy.
Candy Crush Saga is considered one of the first and most successful uses of a freemium model; At the same time, the game can be played entirely without spending money; players can buy particular actions to help clear more difficult boards, from which King makes its revenues—at its peak, the company was reportedly earning almost $1 million per day.[2]Around 2014, over 93 million people were playing Candy Crush Saga, while revenue over three months, as reported by King, was over $493 million.[3] Five years after its release on mobile, the Candy Crush Saga series has received over 2.7 billion downloads, and the game has been one of the highest-grossing and most-played mobile apps in that time frame.
Google Doodle
A Google Doodle is a unique, temporary alteration of the logo on Google's homepages intended to commemorate particular countries' holidays, events, achievements, and notable historical figures. The first Google Doodle honored the 1998 edition of the long-running annual Burning Man event in Black Rock City, Nevada, and was designed by co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin to notify users of their absence in case the servers crashed initially; Doodles were neither animated nor hyperlinked—they were simply images with hover text describing the subject or expressing a holiday greeting. Doodles increased in both frequency and complexity by the beginning of the 2010s. In January 2010, the first animated Doodle honored Sir Isaac Newton.
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