The best-selling PC games in America

July 18th, 2011

Here's what you're buying right now, as ranked by the largest downloadable store, brick-and-mortar store, and online retailer in the nation:

Steam (largest download store)

  1. Terraria
  2. Call of Duty: Black Ops Annihilation Pack
  3. Might and Magic Heroes VI
  4. Bad Company 2 Pack
  5. Trapped Dead
  6. Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition
  7. Counter-Strike Source
  8. Zeno Clash
  9. The Witcher 2
  10. Bad Company 2

Walmart (largest retailer)

  1. World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
  2. Zoo Tycoon: Complete Collection
  3. Sims 3: Generations
  4. Nancy Drew: The Captive Curse
  5. Sims 2: Double Deluxe
  6. StarCraft II
  7. Sims 3: Pets Limited Edition
  8. Civilization V
  9. Sims 3
  10. Age of Empires III

Amazon (largest online retailer)

  1. Bad Company 2 (download)
  2. StarCraft II
  3. Big Kahuna Reef (download)
  4. Civilization V
  5. Sims 3: Generations
  6. World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
  7. Final Fantasy XI: Ultimate Collection (download)
  8. Dungeon Siege 3 Demo (download)
  9. Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Gold Edition
  10. Sims 3: Generations (download)

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Comments

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I bought Terraria and my opinion is the game gets way more hype than it should. Took me and all the friends I was playing with a week to do everything, two weeks to start hating the game entirely because it got boring so fast.

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Posted Monday, July 18th, 2011    Quote This Post
Lakart
Level 3
438 ARP
188/250, 62 ARP to go
188/250, 62 ARP to go
terrarie is to limited D:, once you get the best armor you pretty much beat the game because everything is so easy

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Posted Monday, July 18th, 2011    Quote This Post
cjunky2
Level 4
530 ARP
30/250, 220 ARP to go
30/250, 220 ARP to go
Silly Amazon counting a demo as a buy!

What is the span of this btw? Is it for the year, Q1, or Q2?

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Posted Monday, July 18th, 2011    Quote This Post
Addice
Level 7
4859 ARP
3359/2147482148, 2147478789 ARP to go
3359/2147482148, 2147478789 ARP to go
Addice said: Silly Amazon counting a demo as a buy!

What is the span of this btw? Is it for the year, Q1, or Q2?
I think it is just a week.

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Posted Monday, July 18th, 2011    Quote This Post
s8man888
Level 7
1644 ARP
144/2147482148, 2147482004 ARP to go
144/2147482148, 2147482004 ARP to go
Well Terraria is pretty fun when you first start out... But yeah it doesn't take very long to get all end-game gear and the replay value is practically 0.

Sentaul

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Posted Monday, July 18th, 2011    Quote This Post
phoenixxknix
Level 6
1479 ARP
479/500, 21 ARP to go
479/500, 21 ARP to go
Wow, I'm surprised to see CS: Source up at #7. A lot of people must have bought it during the sales or something.

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Posted Monday, July 18th, 2011    Quote This Post
Apples_mmmmmmmm
Level 7
1719 ARP
219/2147482148, 2147481929 ARP to go
219/2147482148, 2147481929 ARP to go
This is actually a bit surprising to me. I didn't expect Heroes to be so high on the list. I was raised on that series, so I am more then eagerly looking forward to the game, and now im hoping that there will be a thriving multi-player scene to it as well.

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Posted Monday, July 18th, 2011    Quote This Post
Jericho23
Level 3
478 ARP
228/250, 22 ARP to go
228/250, 22 ARP to go
Must be an old list, because Rift is not on it at all

Let loose the dogs of war.

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Posted Monday, July 18th, 2011    Quote This Post
Kreighound
Level 5
823 ARP
73/250, 177 ARP to go
73/250, 177 ARP to go
I've only bought one of those games... although, I did buy a 1200 dollar laptop -_-

Ladd Russo is like a father to me.

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Posted Monday, July 18th, 2011    Quote This Post
GenghisPF
Level 4
559 ARP
59/250, 191 ARP to go
59/250, 191 ARP to go
aww yeah, Nancy Drew: The Captive Curse for the win. And I got ridiculously bored of Terraria on the first day.

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Posted Monday, July 18th, 2011    Quote This Post
lozz21
Level 7
1771 ARP
271/2147482148, 2147481877 ARP to go
271/2147482148, 2147481877 ARP to go
I like the slight discrepancies in games among these stores.

New forums... Soon™

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Posted Monday, July 18th, 2011    Quote This Post
definewikipedia
Level 7
8009 ARP
6509/2147482148, 2147475639 ARP to go
6509/2147482148, 2147475639 ARP to go
From the last steam sale I only have Terraria and did not play that much. (mainly because I am bad)
If anyone has any unwanted items on Terraria you know who to call.

Need a huge time investment in Terraria unless you get help or you are already addicted to it.

Could see Big Kahuna Reef at #3 for Amazon since they did give it away for free and it is based on # of downloads not sales or revenue.

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Posted Monday, July 18th, 2011    Quote This Post
aliencat
Level 7
2501 ARP
1001/2147482148, 2147481147 ARP to go
1001/2147482148, 2147481147 ARP to go
OMG Terraria is first :D ! Nice ;)

Invite me to friends! ;)

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Posted Tuesday, July 19th, 2011    Quote This Post
Piron
Level 4
648 ARP
148/250, 102 ARP to go
148/250, 102 ARP to go
Terraria is a nice game but its not one you would want to play every single day I'd rather play minecraft or portal all day

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Posted Tuesday, July 19th, 2011    Quote This Post
lazergaze
Level 1
63 ARP
62/99, 37 ARP to go
62/99, 37 ARP to go
I just started started trying Terraria and it's a really fun game which you can put alot of hours into,but eventually it gets boring.

Set your profile picture as a Creepy Clown. Why? Progress is impossible without change.

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Posted Tuesday, July 19th, 2011    Quote This Post
Znuf
Level 7
1765 ARP
265/2147482148, 2147481883 ARP to go
265/2147482148, 2147481883 ARP to go
Haha terraria it does get boring...javascript:void();. theres not a lot to do. sigh

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Posted Wednesday, July 20th, 2011    Quote This Post
Kaoken
Level 3
315 ARP
65/250, 185 ARP to go
65/250, 185 ARP to go
lazergaze said: Terraria is a nice game but its not one you would want to play every single day I'd rather play minecraft or portal all day


portal ftw!

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal -Albert Einstein

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Posted Wednesday, July 20th, 2011    Quote This Post
sharpshooter557
Level 7
3033 ARP
1533/2147482148, 2147480615 ARP to go
1533/2147482148, 2147480615 ARP to go
Terraria is fun kind of like minecraft but on a side scroll

Hoo-Rah!

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Posted Wednesday, July 20th, 2011    Quote This Post
Ohman
Level 5
918 ARP
168/250, 82 ARP to go
168/250, 82 ARP to go
steam is win

@.@

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Posted Wednesday, July 20th, 2011    Quote This Post
FuzzyChaos
Level 7
1845 ARP
345/2147482148, 2147481803 ARP to go
345/2147482148, 2147481803 ARP to go
This must have been done when Zeno Clash was on sale. Its a Great game, I got it during Christmas sale thing but its short and leaves a lot of questions. Glad to see it up there though.

Believe in your strengths. -Happy Mask Salesman

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Posted Wednesday, July 20th, 2011    Quote This Post
FelixNibbleton
Level 6
1104 ARP
104/500, 396 ARP to go
104/500, 396 ARP to go
bad company 2 is over 1 year old game and is still on number 3.

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Posted Wednesday, July 20th, 2011    Quote This Post
Rat2000
Level 4
528 ARP
28/250, 222 ARP to go
28/250, 222 ARP to go
Terraria = waste of time...

"Words are, in my not so humble opinion, the greatest form of magic we could possibly have".

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Posted Thursday, July 21st, 2011    Quote This Post
Lion_Alfredo
Level 1
28 ARP
27/99, 72 ARP to go
27/99, 72 ARP to go
Certainly very intersting. This is the first one of these that I have seen, but it looks like walmart appeals to a more casual crowd than the online distributors. Perhaps more casual players prefer to buy the box versions of games? Who knows...

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Posted Friday, July 22nd, 2011    Quote This Post
Zerosama0000
Level 7
1661 ARP
161/2147482148, 2147481987 ARP to go
161/2147482148, 2147481987 ARP to go
TERRARIA??? wtf is going on with you Americans? :D

Zerosama0000 said: Perhaps more casual players prefer to buy the box versions of games? Who knows...


I'd say it depends on the game. If I intend to actually grind the game for some month or even longer, I will more likely bye the box. But maybe that's just me.

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Posted Friday, July 22nd, 2011    Quote This Post
ThammuZ
Level 3
376 ARP
126/250, 124 ARP to go
126/250, 124 ARP to go
Interesting list...nice to see Witcher 2 made one of the lists

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Posted Friday, July 22nd, 2011    Quote This Post
DorkNRok22
Level 3
302 ARP
52/250, 198 ARP to go
52/250, 198 ARP to go
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