Overview

• EA Sports FC 25, released in September 2024, has claimed the top spot in Europe’s 2025 sales rankings through July 28 despite accumulating three months of prior sales.
• Assassin’s Creed Shadows is the highest-selling title released in 2025, securing second place overall in the GSD Top 20 chart covering 15 major European markets.
• GSD reports 71 million PC and console games sold year to date with a 74% digital share, representing a 6% decrease in total sales compared with 2024.
• Mario Kart World appears ninth in the rankings based solely on physical sales because Nintendo’s eShop figures were not included in the GSD dataset.
• Legacy franchises such as Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption 2 continue to chart prominently, alongside Split Fiction as the best-selling new IP.