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This is a list of PC games (including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux) that have sold or shipped at least one million copies.
Please note that the sales figures for expansion packs are not used in calculation of the sales figure for the original game (with the exception of Guild Wars). Sales from digital distribution outlets such as Steam are also not taken into account. Subscription figures for massively multiplayer online games such as World of Warcraft or Lineage are also not taken into account.
List
Game | Sales | Sales breakdown (region) | Series | Release Date |
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The Sims 2 | 20 million[1][2] | — | The Sims | September 14, 2004 |
The Sims | 16 million[3] | — | The Sims | February 4, 2000 |
Half-Life 2 | 12 million[4] | — | Half-Life | November 16, 2004 |
StarCraft | 11 million[5] | — | StarCraft | March 31, 1998 |
Battlefield 2 | 11 million[6] | — | Battlefield | June 21, 2005 |
The Sims 3 | 10 million[7] | — | The Sims | June 2, 2009 |
Half-Life | 9.3 million[8][9] | — | Half-Life | November 19, 1998 |
Diablo III | 8.8 million[note 2][10] | — | Diablo | May 15, 2012 |
Minecraft | 7.8 million[11] | — | — | November 18, 2011 |
Guild Wars Prophecies, including expansion packs: Factions Nightfall Eye of the North |
6.5 million in North America, Europe, and Asia[12] | — | Guild Wars | April 28, 2005 |
Myst | 6 million[13] | — | Myst | September 24, 1993 |
The Sims 2: Pets | 5.6 million[14][2] | — | The Sims | October 17, 2006 |
SimCity 3000 (including re-release versions) | 5 million[15] | — | SimCity | January 31, 1999 |
World of Warcraft | at least 4.7 million[note 1] | — | Warcraft | November 23, 2004 |
World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade | at least 4.7 million[note 1] | — | Warcraft | January 16, 2007 |
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King | at least 4.7 million[note 1] | — | Warcraft | November 13, 2008 |
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm | 4.7 million[16] | — | Warcraft | December 7, 2010 |
Riven | 4.5 million[17] | — | Myst | October 29, 1997 |
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty | 4.5 million approx.[18] | — | StarCraft | July 27, 2010 |
Counter-Strike | 4.2 million[8][9] | — | Counter-Strike | June 19, 1999 |
Cossacks: European Wars | 4 million[19] | — | Cossacks | April 24, 2001 |
Diablo II | 4 million[20] | — | Diablo | June 29, 2000 |
Populous | 4 million[21][22] | — | Populous | June 5, 1989 |
Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? | 4 million[23] | — | Carmen Sandiego | June 1, 1985 |
RollerCoaster Tycoon | 4 million | 4 million in North America[24] | RollerCoaster Tycoon | March 31, 1999 |
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War (including expansions) | 4 million[25] | — | Warhammer | September 20, 2004 |
Doom 3 | 3.5 million[26] | — | Doom | August 3, 2004 |
EverQuest | 3.5 million[27] | — | EverQuest | March 16, 1999 |
Theme Park | 3.5 million[22] | — | — | 1994 |
Age of Empires | 3 million[28] | — | Age of Empires | October 15, 1997 |
Civilization IV | 3 million[29] | — | Civilization | October 25, 2005 |
Command & Conquer: Red Alert | 3 million[30] | — | Command & Conquer | October 31, 1996 |
Crysis | 3 million[31] | — | Crysis | November 13, 2007 |
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos | 3 million[32][33] | — | Warcraft | July 3, 2002 |
Counter-Strike: Condition Zero | 2.9 million[8][9] | — | Counter-Strike | March 23, 2004 |
Battlefield 1942 | 2.47 million[34] | — | Battlefield | September 10, 2002 |
Age of Empires III | 2.5 million[35] | — | Age of Empires | October 18, 2005 |
Anno 1503 | 2.5 million[36] | — | Anno | March 23, 2003 |
Anno 1602 | 2.5 million[37] | — | Anno | September 24, 1998 |
Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars | 2.5 million[38] | — | Cossacks | April 15, 2005 |
Diablo | 2.5 million[20] | — | Diablo | December 31, 1996 |
Far Cry | 2.5 million[31] | — | Far Cry | March 23, 2004 |
Counter-Strike: Source | 2.1 million[8][9] | — | Counter-Strike | November 1, 2004 |
The Witcher | 2.1 million[39] | — | The Witcher | October 26, 2007 |
Diablo II: Lord of Destruction | 2 million shipped, 1 million sold[20] | — | Diablo | June 27, 2001 |
Baldur's Gate | 2 million[40] | — | Baldur's Gate | November 30, 1998 |
Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn | 2 million[40] | — | Baldur's Gate | September 24, 2000 |
Black & White | 2 million[22] | — | Black & White | March 25, 2001 |
Civilization III | 2 million[41] | — | Civilization | October 30, 2001 |
Doom II: Hell on Earth | 2 million[42] | — | Doom | September 30, 1994 |
Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven | 2 million[43] | — | Mafia | August 28, 2002 |
Neverwinter Nights | 2 million[44] | — | Neverwinter Nights | June 18, 2002 |
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl | 2 million[45] | — | S.T.A.L.K.E.R. | March 20, 2007 |
The 7th Guest | 2 million[46] | — | — | January 1, 1993 |
Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness | 2 million[47] | — | Warcraft | December 9, 1995 |
Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings | 2 million[48] | — | Age of Empires | September 30, 1999 |
SimCity 4 | 2 million[49] | — | SimCity | January 14, 2003 |
Spore | 2 million[50] | — | — | September 4, 2008 |
Guild Wars 2 | 2 million[51] | — | Guild Wars | August 28, 2012 |
Sacred | 1.8 million[52] | — | Sacred | March 23, 2004 |
Dungeon Siege | 1.7 million[53] | — | Dungeon Siege | April 5, 2002 |
Quake | 1.7 million[54] | — | Quake | June 22, 1996 |
Crysis Warhead | 1.5 million[31] | — | Crysis | September 16, 2008 |
American McGee's Alice | 1.5 million[55][56] | — | — | October 6, 2000 |
Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun | 1.5 million[57] | — | Command & Conquer | August 27, 1999 |
Duke Nukem 3D | 1.5 million[58] | — | Duke Nukem | January 29, 1996 |
Star Wars Galaxies | 1.5 million[59] | — | Star Wars | June 26, 2003 |
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | 1.5 million | Harry Potter | November 15, 2001 | |
The Orange Box | 1.5 million[62] | — | Half-Life | October 9, 2007 |
Half-Life 2: Episode One | 1.4 million[8][9] | — | Half-Life | June 1, 2006 |
Skyrim | 1.4 million[63] | — | November 11, 2011 | |
Battlefield Vietnam | 1.36 million[34] | — | Battlefield | March 14, 2004 |
Monopoly | 1.3 million[64][65] | — | — | September 30, 1995 |
Zoo Tycoon | 1.3 million | Zoo Tycoon | October 17, 2001 | |
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning | 1.5 million shipped,[66] 1.2 million sold[67] | — | Warhammer | September 18, 2008 |
RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 | 1.14 million | RollerCoaster Tycoon | October 15, 2002 | |
SimCity 2000 | 1.136 million[64] | — | SimCity | July 1, 1993 |
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings | 1.1 million[68] | — | The Witcher | May 17, 2011 |
Doom | 1.1 million[65] | — | Doom | December 10, 1993 |
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault | 1.1 million | Medal of Honor | January 22, 2002 | |
Killing Floor | 1.1 million[69] | — | — | May 14, 2009 |
Half-Life: Opposing Force | 1.1 million[8][9] | — | Half-Life | November 10, 1999 |
Hellgate: London | 1 million[70] | — | — | October 31, 2007 |
Age of Mythology | 1 million[71] | — | Age of Empires | October 30, 2002 |
Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome | 1 million[28] | — | Age of Empires | October 31, 1998 |
BioShock | 1 million[72] | — | BioShock | August 21, 2007 |
Blade Runner | 1 million[73] | — | — | November 21, 1997 |
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars | 1 million[74] | — | Command & Conquer | March 28, 2007 |
Daryl F. Gates' Police Quest: SWAT | 1 million[75] | — | Police Quest | September 30, 1995 |
Dungeon Lords | 1 million[76] | — | — | May 5, 2005 |
Empire Earth | 1 million[77] | — | Empire Earth | November 12, 2001 |
Frogger | 1 million[78] | — | Frogger | November 3, 1997 |
Microsoft Flight Simulator X | 1 million | 1 million in the US[79] | Microsoft Flight Simulator | October 17, 2006 |
Glory of the Roman Empire | 1 million[80] | — | — | June 26, 2006 |
Hidden & Dangerous | 1 million[81] | — | — | July 29, 1999 |
Hotel Giant | 1 million[82] | — | — | May 17, 2002 |
Imperivm: Great Battles of Rome | 1 million | 1 million in Italy and Spain;[83] not distributed elsewhere. | — | May 10, 2005 |
Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis | 1 million[84] | — | Operation Flashpoint | June 22, 2001 |
Patrician III: L'Impero Dei Mari | 1 million | 1 million in Italy and Spain[85] | The Patrician | October 24, 2003 |
Phantasmagoria | 1 million[86] | — | — | July 31, 1995 |
Quake II | 1 million[87] | — | Quake | November 30, 1997 |
Railroad Tycoon II | 1 million[81] | — | Railroad Tycoon | November 4, 1998 |
Return to Castle Wolfenstein | 1 million[87] | — | Wolfenstein | November 19, 2001 |
Return to Zork | 1 million[88] | — | Zork | August 20, 1993 |
Runaway: A Road Adventure | 1 million[89] | — | Runaway | July 6, 2001 |
Supreme Commander | 1 million[90] | — | Total Annihilation | February 16, 2007 |
The Legend of Sword and Fairy 3 | 1 million[91] | — | The Legend of Sword and Fairy | July 31, 2003 |
The Sims 2: Seasons | 1 million[92][2] | — | The Sims | March 1, 2007 |
Tropico | 1 million[81] | — | Tropico | April 24, 2001 |
Unreal | 1 million[93] | — | Unreal | May 22, 1998 |
Unreal Tournament | 1 million[93] | — | Unreal | November 30, 1999 |
Vietcong | 1 million[81] | — | Vietcong | March 26, 2003 |
Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures | 1 million[94] | — | — | May 20, 2008 |
Deer Hunter | 1 million[95] | — | Deer Hunter | November 13, 1997 |
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 | 1 million[30] | — | Command & Conquer | October 23, 2000 |
Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne | 1 million[96][97] | — | Warcraft | July 1, 2003 |
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? | 1 million[98] | — | — | November 28, 1999 |
Terraria | 1 million[99] | — | — | May 16, 2011 |
Notes
- ^1 World of Warcraft: Cataclysm has sold 4.7 million copies.[16] Since a copy of the main game and all prior expansions are required to play Cataclysm, both the original game and the expansions must also have sold at least 4.7 million copies.
- ^2 This does not include the 1.2 million copies given away as part of World of Warcraft's Annual Pass offer.
Older computers
This section lists the sales of video games released for older personal computer platforms such as the Amiga, Apple II, Atari 8-bit and Atari ST; BBC Micro, Commodore VIC-20 and Commodore 64; FM-7 and FM Towns; MSX, NEC PC-88 and PC-98; and the Sharp X1 and X68000. The computer game industry was much smaller when these platforms were active, but gradually increasing; the best-selling computer game up until June 1982 sold 35,000 copies,[100] a major hit in 1983 would have sold around 50,000 copies, and a major hit in 1985 would have sold around 150,000 copies.[101] As such, the threshold is at least 35,000 sales for titles released up until 1982, 50,000 for titles released in 1983, and at least 100,000 sales for titles released from 1984 onwards.
Game | Release year | Copies sold | Sales as of |
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The Last Ninja | 1987 | 2 million[102] | 2008 |
Thexder | 1985 | 1 million[103] | 1990 |
Dragon Slayer II: Xanadu | 1985 | 400,000 in Japan[104][105] | 1985 |
Sokoban | 1982 | 400,000 in Japan[106] | 1988 |
Zork I | 1980 | 378,987[107] | 1986 |
Skyfox | 1984 | 317,545[108] | 1986 |
The Bard's Tale | 1985 | 300,000[109] | 2003 |
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar | 1985 | 300,000[110] | 1990 |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | 1984 | 254,249[107] | 1986 |
Out Run | 1987 | 250,000 in the UK[111] | 1987 |
Door Door | 1983 | 200,000 in Japan[112] | 1985 |
Gauntlet | 1986 | 200,000 in the UK[113] | 1987 |
Zork II | 1981 | 173,204[107] | 1986 |
Chessmaster 2000 | 1986 | 160,000[114] | 1987 |
The Black Onyx | 1984 | 150,000 in Japan[115] | 1986 |
The Seven Cities of Gold | 1984 | 150,000[116] | 2003 |
Deadline | 1982 | 140,719[107] | 1986 |
Zork III | 1982 | 129,232[107] | 1986 |
Ultima III: Exodus | 1983 | 120,000[117] | 2008 |
Pac-Man | 1987 | 100,000 in the US[118] | 1987 |
Will: The Death Trap II | 1985 | 100,000 in Japan[119] | 1986 |
Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer | 1987 | 100,000[120] | 1987 |
Suspended | 1983 | 99,956[107] | 1986 |
Starcross | 1982 | 90,315[107] | 1986 |
Mystery House | 1980 | 80,000[121] | 2003 |
Choplifter | 1982 | 60,000[122] | 1983 |
Wizard and the Princess | 1980 | 60,000[123] | 2010 |
Ultima II: The Revenge of the Enchantress | 1982 | 50,000[124] | 1990 |
Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness | 1981 | 50,000[125] | 1990 |
Temple of Apshai | 1979 | 40,000 in the US[105] | 1982 |
K-razy Shoot-Out | 1982 | 35,000 in the US[100] | 1982 |
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