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This is a list of the best-selling first-person shooter (FPS) games that have sold more than 5 million units. FPS games are a subgenre of shooter games, which have roots in electro-mechanical (EM) arcade games.

Games[]

  1. PUBG (75 million)[1]
  2. Overwatch (50 million)[2]
  3. Call of Duty: Black Ops III (43 million)[3]
  4. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) (41 million)[3]
  5. Payday 2 (2013) (40 million)[4]
  6. Borderlands 2 (30 million) [5]
  7. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (30 million)[3]
  8. Duck Hunt (28.3 million)
  9. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2011) (26.5 million)[6]
  10. Call of Duty: Black Ops (26.2 million)[7]
  11. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (15.7 million)
  12. Halo 3 (15 million)
  13. Half-Life (9.3 million)
  14. GoldenEye 007 (8 million)
  15. Halo 2 (8 million)
  16. Half-Life 2 (6.5 million)
  17. Halo: Combat Evolved - 5 million[8]

Franchises[]

  1. Call of Duty - 500 million[9]
  2. Borderlands - 99 million[10]
  3. Battlefield - 98.7 million[11][12]
  4. Halo - 81 million[13]
  5. Counter-Strike - 72 million[14]
  6. Far Cry - 60 million[15]
  7. Destiny - 50 million[16]
  8. Overwatch - 50 million[17]
  9. Star Wars: Battlefront - 43 million[18][19]
  10. BioShock - 43 million[20]
  11. Payday - 40.7 million[21][22]
  12. Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon - 40 million [23]
  13. Medal of Honor - 39 million[24]
  14. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six - 32 million[25]
  15. James Bond (FPS games) - 29.7 million
  16. Half-Life - 26.3 million[26]
  17. Doom - 20 million[27]
  18. Metro - 16.2 million[28]
  19. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - 15 million[29]
  20. Sniper: Ghost Warrior - 13 million[30]
  21. Wolfenstein - 12.6 million
  22. Left 4 Dead - 12 million[31]
  23. Titanfall - 11 million[32][33]
  24. Killing Floor - 10 million[34]
  25. ARMA - 10 million[35]
  26. Deep Rock Galactic - 10 million[36]
  27. Killzone - 9.7 million[37]
  28. Duke Nukem - 9 million
  29. Resistance - 8.5 million[38]
  30. Crysis - 7.5 million[39]
  31. Unreal - 7 million[40]
  32. Turok - 6 million[41]
  33. Brothers in Arms - 6 million[42]

References[]

  1. ↑ https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/9/22821220/pubg-playerunknowns-battlegrounds-free-to-play-release-date
  2. ↑ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-04-29/activision-blizzard-s-overwatch-2-game-is-a-lot-like-the-original-review
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 https://www.gamefile.news/p/call-of-duty-budgets-development-costs-black-ops-modern-warfare
  4. ↑ https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/payday-2-is-free-on-epic-games-store-guacamelee-games-offered-next-week/
  5. ↑ https://www.gamespot.com/articles/gta-6-release-date-might-be-coming-into-focus/1100-6529480/
  6. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20160303172825/http://microsites.ign.com/call-of-duty-a-short-history/
  7. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20160303172825/http://microsites.ign.com/call-of-duty-a-short-history/
  8. ↑ "Halo 2: One Year Later". Bungie. September 11, 2005. Archived from the original on December 4, 2007. Retrieved August 30, 2020.
  9. ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/video-games/2024/10/30/call-of-duty-black-ops-6-500-million-copies-sold/
  10. ↑ https://ir.take2games.com/static-files/2b782ec8-e583-4f7b-a213-86f2d1dbce40
  11. ↑ https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/637cecede90e076b8043d8cd/Sony_Interactive_Entertainment.pdf
  12. ↑ https://www.gamesindustry.biz/call-of-duty-black-ops-7-trails-far-behind-battlefield-6-on-steam-preorders
  13. ↑ https://deadline.com/2021/02/halo-tv-series-latest-paramount-plus-move-1234698703/
  14. ↑ https://gamesbeat.com/how-counter-strike-creator-is-crafting-his-new-shooter-alpha-response-minh-le-interview/
  15. ↑ https://staticctf.ubisoft.com/8aefmxkxpxwl/3AgUJAVcWfjQ22gJnDl7TC/f1b26ad04be636577722555ce33d39e1/2025_Ubisoft_Presskit_EN_1_EDITED.pdf
  16. ↑ https://br.ign.com/destiny/69931/news/franquia-destiny-vendeu-mais-de-50-milhoes-de-copias
  17. ↑ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-04-29/activision-blizzard-s-overwatch-2-game-is-a-lot-like-the-original-review
  18. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20091112114202/http://www.gamespot.com/news/6170467.html
  19. ↑ https://www.xboxachievements.com/news/news-34210-EA-s-Star-Wars-Battlefront-Series-Has-Sold-Over-33-Million-Copies.html
  20. ↑ https://ir.take2games.com/static-files/4caa8ce3-9cd2-45d5-b267-593e2391801f
  21. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20140221054239/http://www.overkillsoftware.com/payday-the-heist-turns-one-year-old/
  22. ↑ https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/payday-2-is-free-on-epic-games-store-guacamelee-games-offered-next-week/
  23. ↑ https://staticctf.ubisoft.com/8aefmxkxpxwl/3AgUJAVcWfjQ22gJnDl7TC/f1b26ad04be636577722555ce33d39e1/2025_Ubisoft_Presskit_EN_1_EDITED.pdf
  24. ↑ https://www.timeextension.com/features/flashback-how-medal-of-honor-spawned-call-of-duty-the-series-that-killed-it
  25. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20161020121905/http://static9.cdn.ubisoft.com:80/ubigroupstatic/en-US/global/img/company/Ubisoft_Facts_Figures_September_2016_EN_268335.pdf
  26. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20081206065733/http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=21319
  27. ↑ https://insider-gaming.com/doom-the-dark-ages-trailer/
  28. ↑ https://www.vgchartz.com/game/228256/metro/
  29. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20210918131945/https://www.kochmedia.com/en/2021/08/11/koch-media-and-gsc-game-world-partner-up-for-the-physical-release-of-s-t-a-l-k-e-r-2-heart-of-chernobyl/
  30. ↑ https://cigames.com/en/sniper-ghost-warrior-contracts-2-surpasses-1-million-sales-globally-as-sgw-franchise-exceeds-13-million-sales-in-total/
  31. ↑ https://www.gamespot.com/articles/left-4-dead-series-sales-hit-12-million/1100-6397450/
  32. ↑ https://www.pcgamesn.com/titanfall-2/titanfall-2-sales-figures
  33. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20180429025526/https://venturebeat.com/2017/01/23/morgan-stanley-raises-battlefield-1-sales-estimate-to-15-million/
  34. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20190515201916/https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/342716/The_Killing_Floor_series_has_earned_100_million_in_revenue_in_10_years.php
  35. ↑ https://www.bohemia.net/blog/bohemia-interactive-celebrates-15-years-of-arma
  36. ↑ https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/548430/view/539970369596952095
  37. ↑ https://www.vgchartz.com/game/232077/killzone/
  38. ↑ https://www.digitec.ch/en/page/30-years-of-playstation-lets-look-back-at-the-30-most-successful-playstation-game-series-of-all-time-35732
  39. ↑ https://www.vgchartz.com/game/226218/crysis/
  40. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20081116003141/http://www.midway.com/us/pr/mpr_4478.html
  41. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20040610121509/http://www.acclaim.com/company/pressReleases/product/TurokLaborDay.html
  42. ↑ https://staticctf.ubisoft.com/8aefmxkxpxwl/2F0jKtKhxwc29gm8yuzLiT/f21dbf97d2c19bd33984db5c6d9f6c7e/2009_-_Download_the_Reference_Document.pdf

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See also[]

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