April 4, 2025 by Rhys Elliott
March's top 10 games on Steam and PlayStation by units sold
With March clearly in the rear mirror, we thought we’d look back at the busy month for the console/PC market.
March saw some highly anticipated AAA releases, indie surprises, and discounts, leading to a mixed bag for copies sold.
We aren’t afraid to put our estimates out in the market, and there’s a reason for that. Keep reading for the best-in-class, accurate data across Steam and PlayStation platforms.
Let’s kick off with Steam.
March 2025 top 10 games by copies sold on Steam: Co-op galore
Notably, every game in the March Steam top four has a major co-op element. The game that sold the most copies by a country mile was R.E.P.O, with 8.7 million copies. The $10 six-player extraction shooter is the latest horror-themed indie game to go viral on Steam — and certainly won’t be the last.
Over half of R.E.P.O’s players also have played Lethal Company (53.5%) or Phasmophobia (56.2%). R.E.P.O sold nearly three times as many copies as the #2, Monster Hunter Wilds, with its 3.2 million copies sold.
But Capcom’s co-op first action RPG hit generated more revenue due to its $70 price point. Monster Hunter Wilds officially launched on the last day of February. To date, it has sold over 7.5 million copies across PlayStation and Steam, with around 5 million on Steam alone.
The #3 Steam game by copies sold in March was drug-dealing simulation game Schedule I. It launched in early access at the end of the month but still sold 2.4 million copies and generated $33.7
million in revenues. Needless to say, the game’s three-person team is extremely happy.
Schedule I shows the power of social virality for indie games, having a huge presence on TikTok. Our platform’s Twitch tracker shows that Schedule I still attracts over 150K Twitch viewers a day, but viewership is showing early signs of drop-off.
March’s #4 game was Split Fiction. The co-op-only adventure game from Hazelight Studios launched on March 6 and sold over 2 million copies in one week, generating revenues of over $100 million. It has now sold almost that many copies on Steam alone.
Split Fiction’s success is no small feat, as each copy of the game includes a friend pass, allowing players to invite a friend to play with them for free.
Ubisoft’s fire sales for other games actually pushed Assassin’s Creed Shadows out of the Steam top 10
#5 game, Ubisoft’s Anno 1800 had its steepest price drop yet, dropping to just $6 on Steam — twice as cheap as its next-cheapest price of $12 back in July 2024.
The same was true of the other Ubisoft title in the ranking, Ghost Recon Breakpoint, which Ubisoft also discounted to $6 (its joint lowest price, as Ubisoft discounted it to $6 back in July, too).
Ironically, Ubisoft’s heavy discounts pushed its most significant launch in years, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, out of the top 10 (it was Steam’s #11 game by copies sold in March, selling 367.8K copies).
InZOI, Krafton’s answer to The Sims, came in at #6 on Steam, selling 711.9K copies in March despite only launching in early access at the end of the month.
Track InZOI’s performance for yourself.
Our data shows that EA’s The Sims 4 actually enjoyed a small boost during InZOI’s launch. This makes sense, as The Sims is currently celebrating its 25^th^ anniversary, so consumer nostalgia is in full force.
What’s more, The Sims 4 is free to play but InZOI is $40, so its buzz might be pushing price-conscious gamers interested in the genre (back) towards The Sims.
Whether or not InZOI can steal any market share away from The Sims 4 in the future remains to be seen, but InZOI’s focus on UGC out of the gate, imminent new features, great visuals, and huge push in Asia make it one to watch.
We are already seeing the early fruits of that labour in Asia, as our data shows that around 15.2% of InZOI’s Steam players are in China versus 8.9% for EA’s The Sims 4.
Speaking of EA, Battlefield 1’s price dropped to $2 in March, helping it sell over 700K copies for the month. March tops off the quarter (and the fiscal year for EA and Ubisoft), perhaps adding some extra context behind the timing of these Steam fire sales.
Discounts also helped indie phenomena Stardew Valley (#8) and Enter the Gungeon (#9, with its cheapest price, $1) farm and dodge-roll their way into the top 10. They sold over 500K copies each.
It’s simple to find historical Steam discounts and their impact on game sales in the Alinea platform. Book a demo to see any game for yourself.
Now onto PlayStation’s top games.
March 2025 top 10 games by copies sold on PlayStation: The big new premium games
The top three by copies sold on PlayStation was very tight. Assassin’s Creed Shadows came in on the top spot, with 1.2 million copies sold. In terms of other high-profile 2025 launches, Monster Hunter Wilds took the #3 spot with 1.0 million. But this is a technicality.
The top 10 is for March copies sold, but Monster Hunter Wilds launched on February 28, when it had already sold 1.3 million copies on PS5. By the end of March, Monster Hunter had sold another 1.2 million copies on top of that. So the current total today sits at 2.6 million copies sold on PS5 — more than double Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ number.
We’d like to note, though, that Assassin’s Creed Shadows is no disaster — nor is it a smash hit. It is selling OK. And we expect a long tail for the game, with an eventual Switch 2 release.
The final new premium title in the list, Split Fiction, was March’s #4 best-selling PlayStation game by copies sold. It sold over three times as many copies on Steam, though.
Sports games dominated the PlayStation top 10
While some core gamers tend to forget that sports games exist, they are a significant piece of the market. Sports titles make up over a third (36.1%) of the top 10 PlayStation copies sold in March — if we’re including WWE.
Thanks to a 70% price cut in March, EA’s FC 25 was March’s top-selling sports game on PlayStation (and the #2 game overall), with 1.1 million copies sold.
EA’s American football titles just missed out on the top 10, as Madden 25 came in at #11 (155.1K) and College Football 25 at #17 (142.6K). The US accounts for 89.0% of players of the former and 93.3% for the latter, showing just how big of a games market the US is.
Staying on the topic of US-centric sports games, PlayStation’s own MLB: The Show 25 took the #5 spot (with 586K copies sold in March).
Elsewhere, 2K’s sports games accounted for just over 10% of the copies sold in the PlayStation top 10. WWE 2K25 (#8) sold 352.5K copies on PlayStation, while NBA 2K25 (#9) sold 284.8K.
The usual suspects and a Ubisoft fire sale round off the PlayStation top 10
Grand Theft Auto V and Minecraft are two of the best-selling games of all time, selling over half-a-billion copies between them.
They’re the kinds of games that keep selling millions of copies a quarter across different platforms, despite being over a decade old. There are always new gamers ageing into Minecraft and GTA age. It’s almost a rite of passage.
Therefore, it’s unsurprising to see Minecraft selling 527.1K copies on PlayStation in March and GTA V selling 352.5K. Yet it’s worth noting that GTA V had a discount, and the Minecraft movie and surrounding marketing ramped up in March — also helping boost the two titles.
Finally, Ubisoft’s Rainbow Six Siege had its lowest-ever price on the PlayStation Store (an 80% discount to $5.99) in March, helping the title round off the PlayStation top 10.
Again, Ubisoft’s fire sales across the month across all platforms are likely part of a strategy to boost its revenues for the quarter and fiscal year — especially given recent news around structural changes across the company and Assassin’s Creed Shadows not being the silver bullet Ubisoft needs.
That concludes our first-ever monthly top 10 article for copies sold across Steam and PlayStation. Give us a follow on LinkedIn to get more insights than this. We’re only just beginning. And as always, reach out to us if you have any questions.