Full list of 2024’s best-selling games is brutally depressing reading [Video]

EA Sports FC 25 is the best-selling game of 2024 in the UK, but the majority of the top 10 consists of games from previous years.

Gaming has been dominated by Call Of Duty and sports games for decades in the West, but this year’s list of best-sellers paint a particularly bleak picture for the industry at large.

There’s already data to show live service games like Fortnite and Roblox are limiting the time people spend playing new games, and it seems that is partly impacting, in certain territories at least, the overall sales of new games in 2024.

According to figures compiled by Nielsen from December 31, 2023 to December 7, 2024, there are only four new games released in 2024 in the UK’s top 10 best-selling games of the year – and two of those are from established yearly franchises.

Unsurprisingly, EA Sports FC 25was the best-selling game of 2024 on these shores, with the only other new games …