Most Popular PC Games – Global | Newzoo

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Discover the ranking of the top 20 m ost p opular PC games below. The chart ranks PC titles by MAUs (monthly active users), showing the most played games right now .

*Aggregate of 37 markets, excl. China

Top Games on PC in November 2022

In November 2022, the top PC games in the world by monthly active users were Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II/Warzone 2.0, Overwatch, and Minecraft. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II/Warzone 2.0 claimed the #1 spot as the most popular game in the world on desktop and laptop in November, taking the lead from Overwatch.

Fortnite also overtook Roblox and made the top 5. Other titles in the top 10 games PC include Counter Strike: Global Offensive, League of Legends, Valorant, Grand Theft Auto 5, and Rocket League.

Trending Games and Biggest Movers

The top games ranking on PC remained largely consistent; however, there were some changes. The biggest movers this month were Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II/Warzone 2.0, World of Warcraft, and Battlefield 2042.

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II/Warzone 2.0, Activision Blizzard’s game released in October 2022, rose 34 positions and landed at number 1.
• World of Warcraft’s new DLC, Dragonflight, pushed the game up 5 spots to number 14 in November 2022.
• Battlefield 2042, EA’s 2021 title first-person-shooter, rose 6 positions and landed on number 16.

Game Publishers Performance

Riot Games and Activision Blizzard are the only publishers to feature two video games in the top 10 PC games ranking.

The top publishers by number of games included in the top 20 PC games are:

• Activision Blizzard, with four games on the ranking
• Electronic Arts with three games
• Two games on the ranking: Riot Games (owned by Tencent), Epic Games, and Valve
• One game on the ranking: Mojang Studios (owned by Microsoft), Roblox Corporation, Rockstar Games (owned by Take-Two Interactive Software), Psyonix (owned by Epic Games), Ubisoft, Bungie, miHoYo, Ubisoft

Trending Video Games on other Platforms

This list exclusively covers the most popular computer games on PC. It does not include mobile and console games, nor the performance of multiplatform computer games on mobile and console. Want a bigger picture view? Check out our lists of the top Top Xbox games and the list of the top Playstation5 games.

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