Myst gets all the publicity but Riven is where it’s at, dude. Practically photorealistic (for 1997 pre-rendering tech), way more immersion and worldbuilding.
This shows the proliferation of PC gaming over the past decade.
Just to put this in perspective it took 2 years for Half-Life 2 to sell 600,000 copies in the US. Similar story with Doom 3 and keep in mind that there was a truly massive amount of hype behind them.
Maybe I’m wrong but this is kind of a strange dataset visual. It doesn’t necessarily represent the number of game sales per year, instead it appears to me that the chart lists the year the game came out, and the sales of copies over the course of the games life, to-date.
The way the chart is labeled though, it appears to imply those games got those number of sales in the year listed, which would likely be untrue.
Sorry OP, but this list is 100% wrong. The data was pulled from Wikipedia article on pc games that sold over a million copies. If you read that article. it’s void of many huge franchises. GTA, Half Life, Doom, Battlefield, COD, and Mass Effect were all missing. Those are just what came to mind. All of those unquestionably have titles that sold over a million copies on PC.
The article is incomplete. It’s a list of games that sold over a million copies, but not every game that’s sold over a million copies. To that point, it’s 100% useless in determining the best selling game in a given year.
Also, it takes into account lifetime sales, not sales for release year. So those sales figures wouldn’t mean it was the best selling game in a given year even if the article did have every game.
The chart above is complete nonsense.
Edit: was this chart made by HP? Why? And how are they not smart enough to figure this out?
6M sales in 1993? When adjusted for inflation that probably means that the game actually sold around 10M units. Impressive!
Fall Guys? Really…?
Ah bullfrog.. sleep well my sweet prince
command and conquer red alert is classic!
Myst gets all the publicity but Riven is where it’s at, dude. Practically photorealistic (for 1997 pre-rendering tech), way more immersion and worldbuilding.
Best game in the series, also the hardest.
Am i the only one who started to fell REALLY fucking old the further down the picture you went thinking “Oh i remember that game!” ??
This shows the proliferation of PC gaming over the past decade.
Just to put this in perspective it took 2 years for Half-Life 2 to sell 600,000 copies in the US. Similar story with Doom 3 and keep in mind that there was a truly massive amount of hype behind them.
Own/owned 14 out of those 28.
i cant believe diablo 3 is 10 years old wtf.
also did arma 3 become the number 1 seller solely due to day z?
pubg really was something special even if it was janky as fuck and i cant go back to it.
i wonder where theme hospital fit into all this. And half life2
Satisfactory is excellent. Certainly exceeds expectations
Wow I played PUBG back then and I had no idea it was that huge
2019 must have been a bad year for gaming since Satisfactory only released on Epic the first year.
HP sold: unknown
Maybe I’m wrong but this is kind of a strange dataset visual. It doesn’t necessarily represent the number of game sales per year, instead it appears to me that the chart lists the year the game came out, and the sales of copies over the course of the games life, to-date.
The way the chart is labeled though, it appears to imply those games got those number of sales in the year listed, which would likely be untrue.
Ooh I remember playing Myst V. Damn it was amazing back then!
Guild Wars 1 was such a good fucking game
PSA Mobile User: you may think 2012-2002 is a weird range to show, there’s more, click on it.
Did not expect Satisfsctory for 2019. It’s a great and addicting game but just never talked about much that’s all.
this list is insanely stupid.
its PC exclusive titles only; post 2005 most AAA titles are x-platform
it only includes verified sales #s. there’s private developers who don’t disclose sales.
it doesn’t include expansions.
Okay this graphic is just made up. No way Minecraft or GTA5 (2016) didn’t sell less than like 5 million copies in 2014 or 2016
Where is Zork on this list!
I am looking at this stereotypical “PC Gamer” list and then I see two Dark Souls games. Huh…
No way Arma 3 sold better than Grand Theft Auto V.
None of these are in my top 20, strangely enough. A few good ones in there, but none I have spent a great deal of time on.
this doesnt look right
Aaaand I have no-lifed all but some 4 games on that list. Where did the time go?!
Wait, I thought Diablo 3 was bad?
Sorry OP, but this list is 100% wrong. The data was pulled from Wikipedia article on pc games that sold over a million copies. If you read that article. it’s void of many huge franchises. GTA, Half Life, Doom, Battlefield, COD, and Mass Effect were all missing. Those are just what came to mind. All of those unquestionably have titles that sold over a million copies on PC.
The article is incomplete. It’s a list of games that sold over a million copies, but not every game that’s sold over a million copies. To that point, it’s 100% useless in determining the best selling game in a given year.
Also, it takes into account lifetime sales, not sales for release year. So those sales figures wouldn’t mean it was the best selling game in a given year even if the article did have every game.
The chart above is complete nonsense.
Edit: was this chart made by HP? Why? And how are they not smart enough to figure this out?
I’ve never even heard of satisfactory
I don’t believe spore was that popular