Thousands of games are released every year, with numbers increasing recently thanks to an explosion of indie games across all platforms. That means there’s more opportunity than ever to find something new and unexpected among the latest releases, but for a lot of players, the comfort of a few familiar games wins out. Newly released statistics show that, at least on consoles, the biggest games of 2025 were exactly the same as 2024’s top titles. Do those figures point to an industry in crisis.
The top five most-played games on PlayStation in 2025 were (in order of popularity) Fortnite, Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto V, Roblox, and Minecraft, according to Circana analyst Mat Piscatella. Those same games, in the same order, topped PlayStation’s list in 2024 as well. Xbox’s own list for both years featured the exact same games, just in a slightly different order.
