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- PUBG – 320 Million. The game that kicked off a frenzy that saw the entire multiplayer gaming landscape reshaped over the past few years, PUBG still commands a huge audience despite the battle royale genre becoming flooded with copycat titles.
- Fortnite – 240 Million. Love or hate Fortnite, it surely has to go down as among the most important video games ever made. Epic Games’ battle royale has totally recalibrated what it means to build and support a successful “live service” video game.
- Roblox – 210 Million. Roblox has skyrocketed in popularity since its launch back in 2006, especially over the past five or so years. Back in 2016, CEO David Baszuski was proudly touting 700,000 concurrent players and declaring the 1 million milestone wasn’t far from the corner.
- Minecraft – 170 Million. Minecraft is a juggernaut that just keeps on steamrolling. The unending freedom to create, explore, and interact with other players in the Overworld makes it less of a game and more of a metaverse to just hang out.
- Cyberpunk 2077, Grand Theft Auto V, Among Us, and more made the lists.
- The Best (and Worst) Reviewed Games of 2020
By Adam Bankhurst
Updated: Dec 27, 2020 6:06 am
Posted: Dec 27, 2020 5:52 am
Steam has revealed its Best of 2020 lists, and while it doesn't rank the top games, they do give a glimpse as to what games earned the most gross revenue and had the most players.
Steam's Best of 2020 lists include Top Sellers, New Releases, Most Played, Early Access Grads, Best of VR, and Controller Games and games like Cyberpunk 2077, Grand Theft Auto V, Destiny 2, Counter-Strike, and DOTA 2 appear in multiple categories.
The Top Sellers category features Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Bronze tiers, but Steam doesn't detail what amount of gross revenue is needed to qualify for a certain level. The Platinum Top Sellers, in alphabetical order, are as follows;
The Most Played category is measured by highest peak concurrent players and the top tier includes games that reached over 200,000 peak players. The games that reached that milestone are as follows;
•Among Us
•Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
•Cyberpunk 2077
•Destiny 2
•DOTA 2
- Roblox (Total registered players: 230 million) Released in 2006, Roblox is an online game creation platform that gives users the ability to create games and play games made by other users.
- Fortnite (Total registered players: 350 million) Originally, Fortnite was only intended to be a co-op survival tower defense game where you fight off hordes of zombies and creatures using weapons, traps and fortifications; this game mode would later be called Save the World.
- Minecraft (Total registered players: 240 million) Minecraft is a sandbox exploration game set in an almost infinite, blocky 3D world. Extract raw resources to craft tools and items in order to build various structures and machinery.
- League of Legends (Total registered players: 180 million) Released in 2009, League of Legends is an online battle arena game inspired by the DotA mod of Warcraft lll.
Dec 14, 2020 · League of Legends has been a competitive powerhouse and one of the most popular games in the world for years now, and 2020 may have been its best season ever.
- Polygon Staff
Dec 26, 2020 · Here are the 11 most played games of 2020, as decided by achieving peak concurrent player count over 200,000. It's a very similar list:
According to stats published by DFC Intelligence, there were nearly 3.1 billion video game consumers by the mid-2020. This means that almost 40% of the world’s population (around 8 billion people) were playing video games as a way to escape from the pandemic and reconnect with friends in the online world.
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The following were 2020's top ten best-selling video games by region (excluding microtransactions and free-to-play titles) on PC and console platforms, for Australia, Japan, Europe, and the United States.
