The 5 Best-Selling Video Games of All Time
1. Tetris – 520 million
Arguably the most timeless video game ever created, Tetris sits comfortably atop the list of all-time bestsellers with 520 million copies sold, according to The Tetris Company. That number includes sales across all available platforms, with the majority coming from mobile (425 million paid mobile downloads as of 2014, according to Henk Rogers, The Tetris Company's managing director).
Tetris was initially released for the Soviet Union-developed Elektronika 60 computer, and variations of the classic puzzler have since been made for over 50 different platforms. Notably, it helped launch the Game Boy to success, eventually selling 35 million copies on Nintendo's handheld console.
2. Minecraft – 300 million
has sold over 300 million copies as of October 2023, Mojang announced during this year's Minecraft Live (via Minecraft). That figure captures the sales total across Minecraft's many platforms. With film, Netflix, education, toy, and many other projects completed or in the works, Minecraft has transcended the medium in a way few others have before it.
3. Grand Theft Auto 5 – 200 million
Grand Theft Auto 5 is the best-selling console/PC-only game of all time (the top two entries on this list have mobile versions). Sales of Rockstar’s ambitious open-world adventure passed 200 million units by the end of July 2024. That number compiles the game’s sales totals across three console generations and PC.
GTA 5 was the fastest entertainment release from any medium to reach $1 billion in retail sales — and it’s since earned Rockstar and Take-Two billions more, making it the most profitable entertainment release ever, at least as of 2018. Total sales for the franchise sit at 430 million units sold.
GTA 6 is now in development and due out in Fall 2025.
4. Wii Sports – 82.9 million
According to Nintendo's official sales figures, Wii Sports is the company's best-selling game ever. While most entries on this list were bundled with a console at some point, Wii Sports was bundled with the Wii in nearly all territories at launch. At nearly 83 million copies sold, it’s the top-selling single-platform exclusive of all time.
5. Player Unknown's Battlegrounds – 75 million
Given its critical role in the rising popularity of battle royale games over the last five years, it’s unsurprising that has been such a massive sales success. Krafton creative director Dave Curd told PUBG it has sold 75 million copies of PUBG as of December 2021. That will likely be the shooter’s final sales tally, as it went free to play a month later in January 2022.
While free mobile downloads don't count toward its sales total, it's worth noting PUBG Mobile had been downloaded over 1 billion times as of March 2021.