List of best-selling video games

The closest competitor to either is Grand Theft Auto V, which has sold 230 million copies. The best-selling single-platform game is Wii Sports, with nearly 83 million sales for the Wii console.

The 1998 game Snake is estimated to have shipped on over 400 million devices, but is not listed as it was preinstalled and freely accessible on Nokia mobile phones. Another sales issue involves The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, which game director Todd Howard claims has sold over 60 million copies, is deemed contentious due to Howard's history of making exaggerated statements about his games for promotional purposes.

For this list, standard re-releases, remasters and enhanced versions of games are considered iterative updates to the original, thus their sales are combined. In contrast, remakes generally contain significant deviations from the original and are considered separate products. Likewise, expansion packs are not combined with the base game to avoid inflating sales figures. Additionally, titles with unique release structures are classified based on their specific publishing context. Other metrics, such as "players" or "installs", typically refer to active users engaging with the game rather than sales, thus are not listed; even for paid games, these metrics could include free trials or other free promotions and cannot reliably be substituted for sales figures. Paid bundled titles are also included in this list; their sales often benefit from being packaged with other products, typically at a discounted price.

The listed developers and publishers correspond to each game's original release, and release years refer only to the first full public launch, excluding any prerelease stages. Rankings serve solely for numbering purposes and are not meant to be precise, reflecting the list's limited scope because there is no credible, comprehensive sales-tracking source for the video game industry, unlike for films, which have box office tracking sites such as Box Office Mojo and The Numbers. Tied ranks are resolved using the standard competition ranking method, in which entries with equal figures share the same rank and following ranks are increased based on the number of tied entries.

{|class="wikitable sticky-header sortable plainrowheaders"

! scope="col" |Rank

! scope="col" |Title

! scope="col" |Sales<br />(millions)

! scope="col" |Series

! scope="col" |Platform(s)

! scope="col" |Release<br />year

! scope="col" |Developer(s)

! scope="col" |Publisher(s)

! scope="col" class="unsortable" |

| rowspan="2" style="text-align: center;" |1

! scope="row" |Tetris

| style="text-align: center;" |520

|None

|Multi-platform

|1988

|Various

| style="text-align: center;" |

! scope="row" |Minecraft

| style="text-align:center;" |350

|Minecraft

|Multi-platform

|2011

|Mojang Studios

| style="text-align:center;" |

| style="text-align:center;" |2

!scope=row|Grand Theft Auto V

| style="text-align:center;" |230

|Grand Theft Auto

|Multi-platform

|2013

|Rockstar North

|Rockstar Games

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;" |3

!scope=row|Red Dead Redemption 2

| style="text-align:center;" |85

|Red Dead

|Multi-platform

|2018

|Rockstar Games

| style="text-align:center;" | Nintendo includes those bundles in the overall sales figure.

| style="text-align:center;" |82.9

|Wii

|2006

|Nintendo EAD

|Nintendo

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;" |5

! scope="row" |Mario Kart 8 / Deluxe

| style="text-align:center;" |79.54

|Mario Kart

|Wii U / Switch

|2014

|Nintendo EAD / Nintendo EPD (Deluxe)

|Nintendo

| style="text-align:center;" |

| style="text-align:center;" |6

!scope=row|PUBG: Battlegrounds

| style="text-align:center;" |75

|PUBG Universe

|Multi-platform

|2017

|PUBG Studios

|Krafton

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;" |7

!scope=row|Terraria

| style="text-align:center;" |70

| None

|Multi-platform

|2011

|Re-Logic

|Re-Logic / 505 Games

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;" |8

!scope=row|

| style="text-align:center;" |65

|Multi-platform

|2015

|CD Projekt Red

|CD Projekt

| style="text-align:center;" |

| style="text-align:center;" |9

!scope=row|Super Mario Bros.

| style="text-align:center;" |58

|Super Mario

|Multi-platform

|1985

|Nintendo R&D4

|Nintendo

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;" |10

!scope=row|Human: Fall Flat

| style="text-align:center;" |55

| None

|Multi-platform

|2016

|No Brakes Games

|Curve Digital

| style="text-align:center;" |

| rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;" |11

!scope=row|Overwatch

| style="text-align:center;" |50

|Overwatch

|Multi-platform

|2016

|Blizzard Entertainment

| style="text-align:center;" |

!scope=row|

| style="text-align:center;" |50

|Multi-platform

|2000

|Maxis

|Electronic Arts

| style="text-align:center;" |

! scope="row" |Stardew Valley

| style="text-align:center;" |50

|None

|Multi-platform

|2016

|ConcernedApe

|Chucklefish / ConcernedApe

| style="text-align:center;" |

| style="text-align:center;" |14

!scope=row|Animal Crossing: New Horizons

| style="text-align:center;" |49.91

|Animal Crossing

|Nintendo Switch

|2020

|Nintendo EPD

|Nintendo

| style="text-align:center;" | the Yellow version sold 14.64million units on Game Boy,

| style="text-align:center;" |16

!scope=row|Wii Fit / Plus

| style="text-align:center;" |43.8

|Wii

|2007

|Nintendo EAD

|Nintendo

| style="text-align:center;"|

|style="text-align:center;" |25

! scope="row" | Cyberpunk 2077

| style="text-align:center;" | 35

|Cyberpunk

|Multi-platform

|2020

|CD Projekt Red

|CD Projekt

| align="center" |

| style="text-align:center;" |26

! scope="row" |Wii Sports Resort

| style="text-align:center;" |33.14

|Wii

|2009

|Nintendo EAD

|Nintendo

| style="text-align:center;" |

| style="text-align:center;" |28

! scope="row" |Super Mario Odyssey

| style="text-align:center;" |30.50

|Super Mario

|Nintendo Switch

|2017

|Nintendo EPD

|Nintendo

| style="text-align:center;" | and the Crystal version sold 6.39million units.

| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" |31

! scope="row" |Elden Ring

| style="text-align:center;" |30

|Elden Ring

|Multi-platform

|2022

|FromSoftware

|Bandai Namco

| align="center" |

!scope=row|Borderlands 2

| style="text-align:center;" |30

|Borderlands

|Multi-platform

|2012

|Gearbox Software

|2K Games

| style="text-align:center;" |

!scope="row" |Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War

| style="text-align:center;" |30

|Call of Duty

|Multi-platform

|2020

|Treyarch / Raven Software

|Activision

| style="text-align:center;"|

! scope="row" |It Takes Two

| style="text-align:center;" |30

|None

|Multi-platform

|2021

|Hazelight Studios

|Electronic Arts

| style="text-align:center;" |

| style="text-align:center;" |36

! scope="row" |Monster Hunter: World

| style="text-align:center;" |29.1

|Monster Hunter

|Multi-platform

|2018

|Capcom

| style="text-align:center;" |

| style="text-align:center;" |37

!scope=row|Duck Hunt

| style="text-align:center;" |28.3

|None

|Famicom / NES

|1984

|Nintendo R&D1

|Nintendo

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;" |38

! scope="row" |Pokémon Scarlet / Violet

| style="text-align:center;" |28.28

|Pokémon

|Nintendo Switch

|2022

|Game Freak

|Nintendo / The Pokémon Company

| style="text-align:center;" |

| style="text-align:center;" |41

!scope=row|Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

| style="text-align:center;" |27.5

|Grand Theft Auto

|Multi-platform

|2004

|Rockstar North

|Rockstar Games

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;" |42

! scope="row" |Pokémon Sword / Shield

| style="text-align:center;" |27.16

|Pokémon

|Nintendo Switch

|2019

|Game Freak

|Nintendo / The Pokémon Company

| style="text-align:center;" | and The Last of Us Remastered sold units, respectively.

| style="text-align:center;" |44

! scope="row" |Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

| style="text-align:center;" |26.5

|Call of Duty

|Multi-platform

|2011

|Infinity Ward / Sledgehammer

|Activision

| style="text-align:center;" |

| style="text-align:center;" |45

!scope=row|Call of Duty: Black Ops

| style="text-align:center;" |26.2

|Call of Duty

|Multi-platform

|2010

|Treyarch

|Activision

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;" |47

!scope=row|Pokémon Sun / Moon / Ultra Sun / Ultra Moon

| style="text-align:center;" |25.62

|Pokémon

|Nintendo 3DS

|2016

|Game Freak

|Nintendo / The Pokémon Company

| style="text-align:center;" |

| style="text-align:center;" |48

!scope=row|Garry's Mod

| style="text-align:center;" |25.56

|None

|PC

|2006

|Facepunch Studios

|Valve

| style="text-align:center;" |

| style="text-align:center;" |49

!scope=row|Pokémon Diamond / Pearl / Platinum

| style="text-align:center;" |25.5

|Pokémon

|Nintendo DS

|2006

|Game Freak

|Nintendo / The Pokémon Company

| style="text-align:center;" |

|Kinetic Games

| style="text-align: center;" |

!scope=row|Grand Theft Auto IV

| style="text-align:center;" |25

|Grand Theft Auto

|Multi-platform

|2008

|Rockstar North

|Rockstar Games

| style="text-align:center;" |

List of best-selling video games

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