Palworld is worth a shot

I see about 3 I'm either interested in or played. CP2077 is definitely worth getting into. As is Baldurs Gate 3 from what I know of it.

Harry Potter was such a crucial part of my childhood and teen years. I cried when Dumbledore died. I read several of the books over a dozen times, and did an annual reread of the whole series for awhile.

I'm not trans but that TERF cunt will never see another cent or good word from me. I spit on her name as she spit on my childhood. Solidarity, friend.

Yeah I can only separate art from artist when the artist isn't actively contributing to make the world shitty.

Some chunk of that is from counter-boycotters and anti-trans NGOs (allegedly even some GONGOs like citizengo), who bought up a lot, then dumped them onto G2A, gifted them for cheap, etc.

CDPR spent the time fixing CP2077 and then released a killer DLC, putting the entire game on sale a ton along the way. They also listened and reconfigured entirely some of the clunky parts of gameplay/RPG elements.

i’m wondering if the boycott had adverse effects and promoted the game in more gamer-centric spaces that otherwise wouldn’t have cared that much

obviously it’s a harry potter game, it was always gonna sell well. but 2nd best selling game of the last 5 years??? ouch

Screw a bad launch as long as the Dev delivers in the end and not just pisses off. And they did. It's one of the greatest games of all times. And I'm gaming daily since pong and pacman.

There are tons of shitty releases that stay shitty but offer micro transactions and 2646 dlcs. CP has one add-on that is also fantastic.

Being an early adopter sucks in this industry. That's why I waited over a year to play it and had not one single issue in 3 playthroughs.

Not just out of date, complete and utter fabrication.

TIL people eat shit from the "visual capitalist" and swallow it whole. I'd bet my right nut this image took 15min of AI "prompt engineering" and 30 of photoshop copy-paste. None of if is remotely reliable.

Since the graphic is counting sales in units sold I guess free to download "live services" wouldn't really appear.

Would be interesting to see the same counting revenues.

I wonder how many of those are the free version that you can only play when playing with someone who has the paid version

I suspect these are the best selling games which released between 2020 and 2025. For instance, Breath of the Wild has sold about 33 million copies, over 10 million more than Tears of the Kingdom but was released in 2017.

Their source is this page on the Video Game Sales Wiki, which does say "The following titles are the best-selling games released in the 2020s, as of 2025.". That's how I read the headline, but you're right, it would have helped if Visual Capitalist had clarified by including that bit of info.

Well. I have about 1500 hours in AC and around 160 in Hogwarts. So those are probably both my most game hours.

Next is probably outlast trials. ~100 ish I have an eclectic taste in games.

AC is a cozy designer game. And you can play with friends. It was the best game for a pandemic. Not just a girls game either. Half my guy friends played the hell out of that game. I also was a AC new leaf fan so I was so ready for new horizons.

Its not that different than games like Minecraft. I think it appeals to people in similar ways.

As for Hogwarts.

For a lot of us millennials who grew up with Harry Potter ,the game felt like being in a Harry Potter movie. It was a beautiful game at 4k. Like I couldn't believe how beautiful every square inch of the castle was. I spent a lot of time exploring. I did literally every single side quest and found all the demiguise statues. And all the items. And all the animals. All the mounts.

I do believe there was 60-80 side quests ? Something like that.

That's how I spent 160 in the game.

I get that a lot of people don't want Rowling to get any money as she is anti trans.

Rowling had nothing to do with the game aside from owning the IP.

No input or anything on the game.

I'm not here to defend her.

I will say though that a very large portion of things we love and that bring us happiness are tainted.

And we have to decide for ourselves if we can separate the art from the artist or not. And it's a personal decision.

Examples. Walt Disney was antisemitic.
Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in wonderland was a pedo. Bill gates was a visitor of Epstein's Island.(Creator of windows) A shit ton of actors and musicians are pro Israel Zionist. A lot of sports players have domestic battery charges. Alfred Hitchcock was a bad guy (me too situations).

Speaking of. Harvey Weinstein was part of many many movie productions.

I'm not excusing any of these people nor their behaviors.

What I'm saying is. We all get to choose if we want to separate people from their work.

And some will and some won't.

And I don't think judging others just because they bought the Hogwarts game and love the Hp universe, is fair.
I'm certainly not ok with her statements on trans topics.

However I'm not giving up something I love. I can separate her from it.

You too, likely still enjoy media by a shitty garbage human.

Cause there are a lot of them.

If you ranked by budget, none of them would be on the list either. Monopoly Go would just take up rank 1-20.