The game annual charts show the most successful new games in Germany in 2025

• ‘EA SPORTS FC 26’ heads the 2025 game annual charts
• ‘Battlefield 6’, ‘Mario Kart World’, ‘Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ and ‘Split Fiction’ complete the top 5 most successful new video game releases for 2025 in Germany

Berlin, 13 January, 2025 – Score goals, carry out action-packed missions or go on exciting adventures with friends and family in fantastical worlds – the video game highlights of 2025 offered players a wide variety of gaming experiences, as a glance at game’s official annual charts makes clear. The list of the bestselling video game titles for PCs and consoles in Germany in 2025 is headed by the football simulation game ‘EA SPORTS FC 26’ (Electronic Arts), which since its release in September has also regularly ranked at or near the top of the monthly charts. ‘Battlefield 6’ (Electronic Arts), the latest instalment in the well-known first-person shooter series which sold rapidly after its release in October, takes second place. Third place is held by ‘Mario Kart World’ (Nintendo), the racing game for the whole family, which hit the market simultaneously with the Nintendo Switch 2 and was optionally offered bundled with the console. The action adventure ‘Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ (Ubisoft), taking players on an epic journey to 16th-century Japan, places fourth. The top 5 are rounded off by the cooperative adventure ‘Split Fiction’ (Electronic Arts), which offers thrilling shared challenges in fantasy worlds for two players in co-op mode.

The charts of the most successful games of 2025 also include a title developed in Germany: the city-building strategy game ‘Anno 117: Pax Romana’, developed by Ubisoft Mainz, celebrates its seventh-place showing. Also in the list of the top 10 games for 2025: the medieval adventure ‘Kingdom Come: Deliverance II’ (Deep Silver) in sixth place, the high-action first-person shooter ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops 7’ (Activision) in eight place and, in the ninth and tenth spots, the action role-play game ‘Monster Hunter Wilds’ (Capcom) and the wickedly humorous shooter game ‘Borderlands 4’ (2K).

Top 20 bestselling new PC and console game releases purchased via download or physical media in 2025:

Information on the annual charts

The game annual charts for 2025 list the games released that year for PCs and game consoles that achieved the strongest German sales in 2025, physically and digitally, across platforms. The data is gathered by Games Sales Data (GSD), a platform operated by Video Games Europe (VGE). In Germany, GSD obtains data from publishers on sales through both retailers and digital platforms such as Nintendo eShop, PSN, Xbox Store and Steam. Digital sales of Nintendo titles from the Nintendo eShop are not included. Please note: because games publishers do not submit sales data to GSD on all successful 2025 releases, titles such as ‘ARC Raiders’, ‘Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’ and ‘Hollow Knight: Silksong’ could not be taken into account in the game annual charts.

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