Green Man Gaming's 2017 Year in Review

Top Bestsellers, Most Wanted Games, Total Community Game Playtime, Most Popular Games by Country and the Biggest News Stories

LONDON, February 1, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --

PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS, Sid Meier's Civilization VI Expansion Pack and gamers in the USA top the lists 

Green Man Gaming today announced its 2017 Year in Review report. The Year in Review offers insights and trends throughout the year from Green Man Gaming's millions of customers and community members from over 195 countries worldwide. Green Man Gaming's report gives a detailed look into how the community played their favourite PC games in 2017 and what customers did on the store taking into account multiple platforms including Steam, Uplay, PSN, Nintendo, Rockstar Social Club, Origin, Battle.net and lots more.

2017 saw PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS top Green Man Gaming's best sellers with owners of the game spending an average of 86 hours playing the game. Gamers in the USA had the highest game playtime in 2017 whilst the most popular game in the UK was CS:GO. The top news story of the year was Jennifer Lopez investing in e-sports.

Based on Green Man Gaming's multi-platform and worldwide digital video games store and community data, here's what happened in video games in 2017.

Green Man Gaming's 2017 Year in Review Full Infographic here.

Top 10 Bestselling games on Green Man Gaming 

1. PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS
2. Rocket League
3. H1Z1
4. Left 4 Dead 2
5. Destiny 2
6. Grand Theft Auto V
7. 7 Days to Die
8. Cuphead
9. Conan Exiles
10. NieR: Automata™ Day One Edition 


If there was one game that sums up 2017, it would be PUBG. The biggest Battle Royale game smashed aside all opposition in its climb to the top. Rocket League spent another year smashing sales records to become the best selling rocket powered car-football game of all time. There's life outside PUBG though, as despite being an older game, H1Z1 still powers to the 3rd place in our 2017 bestsellers list, showing that the Bluehole monster hasn't eaten all opposition.

PLAYERUNKOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS Playtime per owner 

Average time played of PUBG per owner = 86 hours

In our community, owners of PUBG played it for an average of 86 hours each. This is just the average number so we won't be surprised if the number was even higher for some individuals that really, really love the game. One thing to note is that PUBG players were also busy playing CS:GO for 77 hours, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege for 53 hours and Rocket League for 39 hours. Who knows how they found the time to eat and sleep as this was just the top three other games - they played a lot more!