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I’ve literally never heard of “Human Fall Flat” before seeing this image
From what I interpret off the Wikipedia page, it had sold single digit millions by COVID and then went viral in China during COVID and that’s how it ended up selling tens of millions more
Fascinating!
I’d be interested in seeing a list that was adjusted for the “number of gamers” at the time. A game selling a million copies today isn’t the same level of accomplishment as selling a million copies in 1985 when there was a smaller global market.
Very fun multiplayer game. My son and I love it. I’m surprised of the sales count too though. I didn’t expect it to be that high.
I honesty thought it was more of a streamer game. Had no idea it sold that much.
I played it with my daughter and called it the flobby Bobby game.
Me neither. And I… have it on Steam, apparently?
Not a good chart. They mix franchises and titles in the same chart which is a strange choice. Mario Kart 8 certainly did not sell that much, seeing as there are only 13 million Wii U’s. They meant Mario Kart 8 Deluxe for Switch.
They also got the wrong logo for Super Mario Bros, somehow. It’s the New Super Mario Bros. logo but with the “New” cut out.e: I was wrong about the SMB logo, it did look like that ingame, just not on the box art.
At that point, it’s combining SKUs of what they consider to be the main “game”. Non-deluxe Mario Kart 8 is a rounding error. Tetris gets really weird to count.
Visual capitalist is a slop media creation. Content and traffic are absolute, actual real data be damned.
Don’t know about the numbers but Mario Kart 8 is for switch.
Mario Kart 8 is a Wii U game that was later ported to Switch under the name Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.
The number looks like they added the sales numbers for both together, which I think makes sense. It’s expanded but not a new game.
The more you know… thanks. My bad.
My problem with those stats is that with “Tetris” they always count every iteration of it
If we’re going by THAT metric, Pokémon would top this list hahaha
Tetris really, truly shouldn’t appear at the top of any best-selling games list. The only reason it does is because every installment of Tetris is still counted as just being Tetris for some reason.
To be fair, every installment of Tetris kinda is just Tetris /hj
Not really. They are developed independently, marketed and produced, sold independently to different times since its inception. Counting them all as a single game is wrong in my opinion. It’s like counting every Tennis game as the same game, because they all try to realize the same genre.
If you’re going to include pack ins like Wii Sports then Windows Solitaire and Minesweeper smoke everything…
has Human Fall Flat really sold more than Overwatch? I always thought it was a small indie game. It even beats out Stardew Valley
I’ve seen it on storefronts a lot but haven’t tried it before
It is a small indie game. And yes, it sold that much. Every time I see that stat, it blows my mind.
Me too, because the game itself sucks pretty bad.
Imo it doesn’t suck. The gimmick just wears off after a couple hours/levels, so it gets repetitive fast. I still enjoy the aesthetics and wackiness of it though.
It’s what the kids these days are calling “friend-slop,” which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It’s just that most of the value comes from creating zany situations for your coop pals to get into and let hilarity ensue. It’s a bit like a lot of card games in that way, it’s simple because it mostly just has to get out of the players’ way and allow social interaction to happen.
So it’s like Overcooked et al? I will definitely play games like that with friends and have a blast, even if I’d never play it single-player
Skill issue.
The game was super popular in China for some reason. Probably was a hype among Chinese streamers, like how Among Us suddenly got a meteoric rise in sales.
If they counted all Pokémon game as one like the Tetris it was on the 2nd or 3rd place (at around 340m according to wikipedia).
Overwatch ranks in the top 15 and that still wasn’t good enough for Blizzard to not chase out all their good devs because the numbers weren’t as high as they promised their shareholders.
While blizzare is known for being a shitass company, readjng that some suit told Jeff Kaplan out of nowhere that overwatch needs to generate x million dollars by the end of the quarter or they are gonna fire 2000 people and it’s gonna be on him. It left such a disgusting taste in my mouth.
Including Wii Sports is kinda bullshit. It was a pack-in for the console. Not like people had a choice there.
Most people buying a Wii were doing so for Wii Sports anyway.
Nahhh everyone wanted Red Steel (lawl)
Okay, but I loved that game.
to be fair it was a console seller and A LOT of people bought the Wii just to play that at family gatherings and like inviting people over for dinner. My parents bought a Wii just for it and never bought another game for the Wii.
I was working at an EB Games when the Wii came out and a good chunk of people would just buy the console with no games attached to it. They just wanted Wii Sports. AND THEN when they brought out the new version of Wii Sports…man that thing sold like hot cakes.
Tetris was bundled with the original Game Boy. It’d still be in first though.
I’m surprised World of Warcraft didn’t make it :o
Yeah especially since all-time peak active subs was 12m and still has 2.2m daily active players as of Jan 2025.
It would surely be on a chart for repeat customets, though.
…And all-time revenue generated, of course: ~$9b (also Jan 2025).Isn’t WOW a subscription?
you still have to buy the game before you pay the subscription.
That hasn’t been true for years now
right but at the height of WoW’s popularity you had to buy the game/expansions and you still have the buy the expansions to this day.
Didn’t think the Witcher 3 had caught up to infinite releases Skyrim. TW3 will have another big bump when the new expansion hits. It’ll probably get rewnewed interest from modders as well
Why they put a character of overwatch but not one of Terraria, which has sold more, was made by some passionate team and it’s still very much loved by the community?
It makes me happy to see that Stardew Valley made the list!
I wish charts like these could “adjust for inflation.” Not the inflation of money I mean, but the inflation of the industry. The number of video game players globally has increased dramatically since the heyday of Super Mario Brothers. It was a much “smaller world” back then, so the success of SMB is likely more impressive than the success of e.g. Skyrim, and the success of Tetris would look just absolutely ludicrous lmao.
Okay but only if we also account for the increased variety of game options. SMB was the only game back then. lol
Isn’t pubg free?
Not at launch; it became free-to-play later.
Mobile is but there are micro transactions everywhere. They likely make a shit ton of money off that because people are stupid.
Ugh PUBG was one of the best games ever when it came out for computer. Full of jank, sure, but every time you started a new game, it was an ADVENTURE! I always landed far away from people so I could get max exploring in. I loved that there were tons of garbage items on the floor, like clothing and stuff. It made every time you found a nice gun or attachment feel AWESOME. Then as the round is further in, I’m armed to the teeth and driving a bike with a sidecar towards the action. Then I hit a twig and my bike launches into orbit, doing 500 flips, exploding on impact. Except the time it didn’t—I was driving and my partner was in the sidecar, we launched and did a million flips, and it landed without so much as a bounce (doing damage to us and lighting on fire, but not killing us!) I wish I had a clip from that moment, with our reactions.
Then PUBG mobile came out, and a friend of mine was sooo into it, and soooo stoked that he got so many kills and was so good at the game. I’m not a teen anymore so I’m not a fun-ruiner like I was back then; I didn’t have the heart to tell him he was playing against majority boys with bad AI, and the game has crazy auto aim for players.
The computer version removed all bad loot, so everything you find was guns, ammo, attachments… suddenly everything was inundated with loot. If I wanted that, I’d just go play a game with load outs! I want to have to hunt for good gear, that’s what made the game so unique for me!
Then PUBG went full on garbage mode. Removed proxy-chat, went F2P, and added bots. Fuck bots! Ruins the concept of the game completely. I uninstalled the day bots were added and never played again.
I am very happy to have had a few 1v99 wins before bots were added. My first win against 99 others happened maybe 50 hours in, and my watch warned me my heart rate hit 180. I’ve never felt that kind of rush from a game before or since.
Early PUBG with a stack of friends - GOAT game
Early PUBG was one of the best gaming experiences of my life. Totally agree, they took what was great and enshittified it massively but still made way more money from micro transactions (by having a massively expanded player base for being free and accessible).
My goat is socom 2 though. That game rocked the entire time.
