What's the Most Popular Game? List of Most-played Video Games
Call of Duty, Minecraft, or Red Dead Redemption 2? The most popular games in the world are much less obvious than it might seem to regular players.
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- What's the Most Popular Game? List of Most-played Video Games
- Genshin Impact
- Crossfire
- Candy Crush Saga
- Microsoft Solitaire
- PUBG
- Fantasy Westward Journey
- Fortnite: Battle Royale
- LoL
- Dungeon Fighter Online
- Minecraft
- WoW
- Honor of Kings (HoK)
- GTA 5
- Garena Free Fire
- Among Us
- Lost Ark
- Call of Duty Mobile
Genshin Impact
Scale of popularity:
- almost $400 million profit in two months;
- 17 million players in the first four days;
- over $1.5 billion in revenue in 2022 (source);
- about 65 million players per month (source).
Genshin Impact is available on all important platforms (with crossover feature). The version for Android and iOS phones and tablets is one of the prettiest, but also the most demanding mobile games out there. However, high system requirements didn't discourage players. Clone of Zelda: BOTW, as it is often referred to, according to estimates, generated a profit of over $60 million just 7 days after release. After 12 days, it reached 100 million – the game became the second highest-grossing mobile title in the world. After 2 months, the counter showed whopping 393 million.
Not bad for an entirely free game that was very popular even before its actual debut. Over 1.6 million people made pre orders in just a few days. The real craze, however, began only after the premiere. Over 17 million people installed Genshin Impact in the first four days. And for a good reason. This is one of the highest-rated mobile games. In 2020, Genshin Impact won the "Best Mobile Game" category at the Game Developers Choice Awards.
Currently, the game is doing great. According to Statista, MobileGamer was the third highest grossing mobile game in 2022 – over $1.5 billion. As for the number of players, activeplayer.io estimates it at about 65 million per month.
