Best-selling RPG games

The following sales figures are derived from official figures from developers and publishers, along with figures from analyst firms Famitsu, Media Create, NPD and Steam Spy. See the individual franchise articles for more details on the sales figures. Individualy, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is the best selling RPG of all time.^[1]

Franchises

Pokémon - 368 million
Final Fantasy - 159 million ^[2]
Dragon Quest - 82 million ^[2]
Monster Hunter - 65 million
Kingdom hearts - 32 million
The Elder Scrolls - 52 million
Borderlands - 48 million^[3]
Lineage - 43 million
The Witcher - 40 million
Fallout - 38 million
Mario RPG - 28.7 million
Kingdom Hearts - 25 million^[4]
Megami Tensei - 23.5 million^[5]
- Persona - 11.1 million^[6]
Tales - 23 million^[7]
Dragon Ball (RPG) - 17.2 million
Mass Effect - 16.5 million
Super Robot Wars - 16 million
Fire Emblem - 15 million
World of Warcraft - 14 million
Souls - 14.7 million
Yo-kai Watch - 13 million^[8]
Mana - 12.3 million^[9]
Fable - 12 million^[10]^[11]
Guild Wars - 11.5 million
SaGa - 9.9 million^[12]
Inazuma Eleven - 8 million^[13]
Chrono - 5.4 million^[14]
Baldur's Gate - 5 million^[15]
Nier - 5 million<ref>Nier 1 - 500k - SourceNier Automata - 4.5 million Source </ref>
Suikoden - 2.3 million
Golden Sun - 1.8 million
Mother/Earthbound - 1.5 million

Individual Entries

This list only counts entries above 3 million.

Pokémon Red / Blue / Yellow - 59.52 million
1. Pokémon Gold / Silver / Crystal - 42.21 million
2. Pokémon Ruby / Sapphire / Emerald - 36.6 million
3. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - 30 million^[16]
4. Diablo III and Reaper of Souls expansion - 30 million
5. The Witcher 3 and expansions (Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine) - 28 million^[17]^[18]
6. Pokémon Diamond / Pearl / Platinum - 25.27 million
7. Pokémon Sun and Moon /Ultra sun/Ultra moon - 25.09 million
8. Borderlands 2 - 22 million
9. Pokémon X and Y - 16.49 million
10. Pokémon Sword and Shield- 19.02 million
11. Pokémon Black and White - 15.64 million
12. World of Warcraft - 15 million subscribers ,
13. ”Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire” - 14.34 million
14. Fallout 4 - 14 million
15. Final Fantasy VII - 13.26 million
16. Fallout 3 - 12.4 million
  1. ''Pokémon: Let's Go Pikachu & Eevee’’ - 12.49 million
17. Fallout: New Vegas - 11 million^[19]
18. Final Fantasy XIV - 10.9 million subscribers
19. Final Fantasy VI - 10.18 million (including SNES Classic bundles)
20. Dark Souls 3 - 10 million^[20]
21. Final Fantasy VIII - 9.65 million
22. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - 9.5 million
  1. ''Final Fantasy X'' - 9.34 million
23. Final Fantasy XV - 8.9 million
  1. ''The Elder Scrolls Online'' - 8.5 million subscribers
24. Secret of Mana - 7.89 million (including SNES Classic bundles)^[21]
  1. ''Final Fantasy XIII'' - 7.7 million
25. Super Mario RPG - 7.42 million
26. Final Fantasy XII - 7.4 million
27. Yo-kai Watch 2 - 7.30 million
28. Final Fantasy X-2 - 7.24 million
29. Dragon Quest III - 6.45 million
30. Dragon Quest V - 6.22 million
31. Mass Effect 2 - 6 million^[22]
32. Dragon Quest IV - 5.97 million
33. Final Fantasy IX - 5.93 million
34. Kingdom Hearts - 5.9 million
35. Dragon Quest VIII - 5.81 million
36. Dragon Quest VII - 5.57 million
37. Dragon Quest IX - 5.35 million
38. Xeno - 5.27 million
39. Diablo II - 5.2 million^[23]
  1. Final Fantasy I - 5.19 million
  2. Final Fantasy IV: The After Years - 5.06 million
  3. Fable II - 5 million^[24]
  4. Kingdom Hearts III - 5 million^[25] #''Final Fantasy VII Remake'' - 5 million
  5. Middle-earth: Shadow of War - 3 million(year one sales only)^[26]

References

[1] ttps://www.linkedin.com/in/jefferygardiner/

[square-2] 2.0 ^2.1 https://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/ir/pdf/21q2release.pdf

[3] ttps://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-08-05-borderlands-2-has-sold-22-million-units-to-date

[4] ttps://variety.com/2018/gaming/news/skrillex-hikaru-utada-kingdom-hearts-iii-1202961236/

[sega-5] ttps://www.segasammy.co.jp/english/ir/library/pdf/printing_annual/2018/ssh_ar18e_web.pdf

[Persona2-6] ttps://www.gematsu.com/2019/12/persona-5-worldwide-shipments-top-3-2-million-persona-5-royal-japanese-shipments-top-400000

[7] ttps://twitter.com/BandaiNamcoUS/status/1125946469188419585

[8] ttps://www.4gamer.net/games/297/G029753/20160727078/

[9] Best selling Square-Enix games

[:03-10] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20100313175010/http://www.joystiq.com/2010/03/11/fable-2-sold-3-5-million-copies-lionhead-needs-5-million-for/

[11] ttps://twitter.com/bogorad222/status/1233306835475685377

[12] ttp://web.archive.org/web/20160105145838/www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/group/index.html

[13] ttp://gematsu.com/2016/07/inazuma-eleven-ares-announced

[14] ttp://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/group/index.html

[15] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20071023215138/www.xboxgamers.com/index.php?do=viewarticle&id=1889

[16] ttps://www.rollingstone.com/glixel/interviews/skyrim-creator-todd-howard-talks-switch-vr-and-elder-scrolls-wait-w451761

[17] ttps://www.cdprojekt.com/en/wp-content/uploads-en/2020/04/management-board-report-on-activities-of-cd-projekt-group-and-cd-projekt-s-a-in-2019.pdf#page=51

[18] ttps://twitter.com/DarkDetectiveNL/status/1247931336238731266

[19] ttps://twitter.com/bogorad222/status/742936567715659776

[20] ttps://www.gamespot.com/articles/dark-souls-3-has-sold-over-10-million-copies-pushi/1100-6477468/

[som-21] Secret of Mana, Wiki of Mana

[22] ttps://twitter.com/bogorad222/status/1232581257688731649

[blizzard-23] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20120215003616/www.statisticbrain.com/blizzard-entertainment-statistics/

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[25] ttps://www.gamespot.com/articles/kingdom-hearts-3-breaks-franchise-sales-records/1100-6464815/

[26] ttps://twitter.com/bogorad222/status/1345046470458830848

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