List of video games by monthly active player count

This list contains the top video games with the most active monthly players across all platforms, using the most recent figures available.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

List
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Title Monthly players As of Release date Developer(s)[lower-alpha 1] Publisher(s)[lower-alpha 1] Ref.
CrossFire 240 million January 2020 3 May 2007 Smilegate [1]
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds 227 million June 2018 26 November 2015 PUBG Corporation [2]
Honor of Kings 200 million May 2017 20 December 2017 Tencent [3]
Roblox 155 million May 2020 27 August 2006 Roblox Corporation [4]
Pokémon Go 147 million June 2018 6 July 2016 Niantic, Inc [5]
Minecraft 126 million May 2020 18 November 2011 Mojang Studios [6]
League of Legends 115 million March 2019 27 October 2009 Riot Games [7]
CityVille 100 million March 2015 26 July 2011 Zynga [8]
Subway Surfers 100 million September 2018 24 May 2012 SYBO Games [9]
FarmVille 83 million March 2010 19 June 2009 Zynga [10]
Mini World 80 million April 2020 2017 MiniWan Tech [11]
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang 80 million February 2020 9 November 2016 Moonton [12]
Fortnite Battle Royale 78.3 million August 2018 26 September 2017 Epic Games [13]
Apex Legends 75.1 million May 2020 4 February 2019 Respawn Entertainment Electronic Arts [14]
The Sims Social 66 million October 2011 9 August 2011 Playfish [15]
Call of Duty: Warzone 50 million April 2020 10 March 2020 Infinity Ward
& Raven Software		 Activision [16]
Knives Out 50 million March 2018 2017 NetEase [17]
Teamfight Tactics 33 million September 2019 26 June 2019 Riot Games [18]
Counter Strike: Global Offensive 24 million February 2020 21 August 2012 Hidden Path Entertainment
& Valve		 Valve [19]
Dungeon Fighter Online 25 million November 2012 August 2005 Neople [20]
Gardens of Time 17 million December 2011 7 April 2011 Playdom [21]
Dota 2 11.19 million January 2019 9 July 2013 Valve [22]
World of Warcraft 10.1 million September 2018 23 July 2004 Blizzard Entertainment [23]
World of Tanks 9 million 2014 12 June 2010 Wargaming [24]
Heroes of the Storm 6.5 million September 2018 2 June 2015 Blizzard Entertainment [23]
Rocket League 6.5 million September 2018 7 July 2015 Psyonix [25]
Café World 6.4 million October 2011 September 2009 Zynga [26]
Smite 2.5 million September 2018 25 March 2014 Titan Forge Games Hi-Rez Studios [23]
  1. Only developers and publishers for the original release of each game are listed, except where noted otherwise.

Distribution platforms
  • Steam – averaged 95 million monthly active users in 2019,[27] up from 90 million in 2018.[28]
  • WeGame – had an estimated 70 million monthly active users in February 2020.[29]

See also

References
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  2. McWhertor, Michael (19 June 2018). "PUBG reaches 50M copies sold, 400M total players". Polygon. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
  3. Liao, Rita (3 July 2017). "World's top grossing mobile game debunks gender stereotype · TechNode". TechNode. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
  4. "Roblox overtakes Pokemon Go's MAU Record with 155 Million Active Users in May 2020". RTrack.live. 31 May 2020. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  5. Philips, Tom (27 June 2018). "Pokémon Go active player count highest since 2016 summer launch". Eurogamer. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
  6. Warren, Tom (18 May 2020). "Minecraft still incredibly popular as sales top 200 million and 126 million play monthly". The Verge. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  7. "How Many People Play League of Legends in 2019?". RankedKings.com. 28 March 2019. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
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  9. Chapple, Craig (12 September 2018). "Subway Surfers hit monthly download record of 52.5m in June 2018". Pocketgamer.biz.
  10. Takahashi, Dean (3 January 2011). "Zynga's CityVille becomes the biggest-ever app on Facebook". VentureBeat. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
  11. "China's largest sandbox game sees sales spike with Hasbro brand". PocketGamer.biz. 8 April 2020. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
  12. "ONE eSports announces inaugural Mobile Legends: Bang Bang event". ABS-CBN Sports. 27 February 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  13. Goslin, Austin (20 September 2018). "Fortnite has 78.3 million monthly players, according to Epic". Polygon. Retrieved 29 September 2018.
  14. Grubb, Jeff (30 July 2019). "EA: Apex Legends has 8-to-10 million players a week". VentureBeat. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
  15. Takahashi, Dean (12 October 2011). "EA's The Sims Social has stolen millions of players from Zynga". VentureBeat. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  16. Statt, Nick (10 April 2020). "Call of Duty: Warzone now has more than 50 million players one month after launch". The Verge. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
  17. Harris, Iain (29 March 2018). "NetEase's Knives Out pulled in more than 50 million monthly active users in January". PocketGamer.biz.
  18. Bailey, Dustin. "Teamfight Tactics has 33 million players a month". PCGamesN. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
  19. Strickland, Derek (23 March 2020). "Counter-Strike had 24 million monthly active users in February 2020". TweakTown. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
  20. "Avoiding latency-related revenue caps in MMO games". SuperData Research. 20 November 2012. Archived from the original on 10 May 2020.
  21. Constine, John (22 December 2011). "Facebook Snubs Zynga's CityVille As Most Popular Game Despite 5X Users Of #1 Gardens Of Time". TechCrunch. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
  22. "Number of monthly active users (MAU) of DOTA 2 worldwide as of January 2019 (in millions)". Statista. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
  23. Gibson, Alex (26 September 2018). "Top 10 Most Played Games, Ranked by Monthly Players". Twinfinite. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
  24. "Hands On: Sinking our treads into the revamped World of Tanks 1.0". PC World. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  25. Bleier, Tarah (20 September 2018). "Rocket League Hits 50 Million Players Worldwide". PCInvasion. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
  26. "Café World by Zynga - Facebook application metrics from AppData". 26 October 2011. Archived from the original on 26 October 2011. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
  27. Strickland, Derek (8 February 2020). "Steam grew to nearly 95 million monthly active users in 2019". TweakTown. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
  28. Fenlon, Wes (14 January 2019). "Steam now has 90 million monthly users". PC Gamer. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  29. "Tencent offers two-hour free trial for 55 PC games amid coronavirus outbreak". South China Morning Post. 13 February 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
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