Elden Ring: Nightreign tops May 2025 US sales, but Monster Hunter: Wilds remains year’s biggest hit to date | US Monthly Charts
Game sales are broadly stable YoY
Circana has published its May 2025 US sales recap, revealing Elden Ring: Nightreign was the best-selling premium game of the month and the eleventh best-selling game of 2025 to date. FromSoftware’s Elden Ring spin-off was the best-selling game across PlayStation, Xbox, and PC.
The projected US spend in May 2025 on video game hardware, content, and accessories topped $4.1 billion, up 1% year-on-year. However, year-to-date spending fall 6% behind 2024 at $21.8 billion.
- Total video game sales in May 2025: $4,052m (+1% year-on-year)
- Total video game content/software in May 2025: $3,726m (+2% YoY)
- Total video game hardware sales: $172m (-13% YoY)
- Total video game accessories sales: $154m (-6% YoY)
- Total video game sales in 2025*: $21,838m (-6% YoY)
* year to date
Star Wars: Battlefront 2 re-entered the monthly best-selling titles chart at 12th place, and fifth across PC aggregated storefront tracking. That’s up from 135th place the previous month.
Monopoly Go! once again tops mobile consumer spending, followed by Royal Match and Last War: Survival. Candy Crush Saga, Whiteout Survival, Township, Coin Master, Pokémon TCG Pocket, Evony, and Gossip Harbor: Merge & Story round out the top ten.
Monster Hunter: Wilds remains 2025’s biggest game in the US by dollar sales.
Here are the top 20 best-selling games from the period May 4 to May 31, 2025, data courtesy of Circana:
| Rank | Last month rank | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
NEW | Elden Ring: Nightreign |
| 2 | NEW | Doom: The Dark Ages |
| 3 | 2 | Forza Horizon 5 |
| 4 | 1 | The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion: Remastered |
| 5 | 5 | Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 |
| 6 | 3 | MLB: The Show 25^^ |
| 7 | 4 | Minecraft^ |
| 8 | 15 | Grand Theft Auto 5 |
| 9 | 9 | NBA 2K25 |
| 10 | 14 | EA Sports FC 25 |
| 11 | 6 | Assassin’s Creed: Shadows |
| 12 | 135 | Star Wars: Battlefront 2 |
| 13 | 10 | Split Fiction |
| 14 | 16 | Red Dead Redemption 2 |
| 15 | NEW | F1 25 |
| 16 | 34 | Helldivers 2 |
| 17 | 13 | The Last of Us: Part 2 |
| 18 | 8 | WWE 2K25 |
| 19 | NEW | Capcom Fight Collection 2 |
| 20 | 11 | PGA Tour 2K25 |
^ Digital sales on Nintendo platforms not included
^^ Digital sales on Nintendo and Xbox platforms not included
