The world's best video games

The video game, in English video game, with more than 3 billion and 200 million people worldwide as its audience, is one of the most exciting gifts of information technology. That is more than 34 percent of the world's population. An industry with a turnover of about 268 billion dollars. To grasp how large this figure is, we can compare it with the world's most profitable industry. The arms industry, whose financial value currently stands at 592 billion dollars. That means the industry we are talking about is worth nearly half the arms industry.

Types of video games draw on several arts of animation and music and cinema and storytelling, and they attract people with different tastes. All of these come together through a magic called gameplay and create a legendary experience. Every game has its own rules and methods that the gamer must follow. Through gameplay the player can control the game's characters and make decisions in their place. This feature is the only important distinction between a video game and other video media such as film.

In modern societies, video games are accessible on almost every smart device. Mobile phones, tablets, computers and smart TVs can easily run a video game. These games are so appealing that they know no age and attract people of all kinds. Today's advanced life is undeniably intertwined with the video game. In what follows we introduce this industry and the best video games in history.

The world's video game industry

The first video games appeared in the 60s and 70s. The first person who, with the help of the first home console in history ( Magnavox Odyssey ), used television sets to display his console's images is named Ralph Baer, the father of computer games. The video game industry grew larger every year until today it earns more revenue than the film and music industries, which have many fans. This superiority is due to the interactivity of video games. It is forecast that in 2027 the number of video game audiences will reach 3 billion and 800 million people.

Most of the world's games share features such as combat and conflict, rules, powers and strategies, and values. In the new era, which is the time of the industrialization of video games, game makers must pay more attention to the entertainment aspect and the nature of games. In 2019 video games reached 120.1 billion in revenue and had more than 2 billion and 600 million people as their audience. The following year, the year of COVID-19, this figure reached more than 3 billion people and recorded unprecedented growth. The video game is one of the few industries that not only was not harmed during the COVID-19 pandemic, but grew. The Economist claims that video game consumption in the United States increased 75 percent during the pandemic. In the same period the Steam platform reached a record of 20 million concurrent users, 11 percent more than the previous record. Global audience figures in 2020 also indicate a jump.

The video game industry in the world, unlike many industries, not only was not harmed during the COVID-19 pandemic, but grew. According to The Economist, fans of the video game industry in the United States increased 75 percent during the pandemic. In the same period the Steam platform reached a record of 20 million concurrent users, 11 percent more than the previous record.

In recent years those active in the game-making industry strengthened their connection with customers through various smart and digital devices. In this way the video game industry has been generating revenue through various channels such as mobile gaming and virtual reality and so on. For this reason this industry developed and progressed rapidly and was chosen by many investors.

The world's best games

Online computer games run on various gaming platforms such as mobile, console and PC. Mobile gaming is the most popular gaming platform both in Iran and in the world. Selecting the most popular video games can be done from various points of view. Games exist in different genres with diverse gameplays. Each person, according to their own taste and interest, chooses the best video games in history. Types of game style, eye-catching graphics, entertaining gameplay mechanics, monthly active user figures, sales speed, and the sales and download volume of the best computer games are among the influential indicators for choosing the best Android, console and PC games.

In what follows we mention the features and names of several video games among the most popular Android, iPhone, computer and mobile games. The names of these video games may rank higher or lower on some lists of the world's most popular games, but their presence has always been constant.

The Minecraft game

The online Minecraft game holds the title of the best-selling game in world history. In terms of monthly active users it is among five of the world's most famous games. In 2021, 140 million people played the original Minecraft each month. Since its release it has sold 238 million copies. Among video games, Minecraft for computer ranks first in sales. With this increase in revenue from Minecraft downloads, this game's sales rose from 211 million dollars in 2012 to 380 million dollars in 2021. Minecraft has also won numerous awards. Among mobile games too, Minecraft ranks first with about 70 million dollars in sales. It is said to have been played 738 million times by gamers.

 

What is Minecraft

Mojang the game company has made Minecraft for computer, for phones and for various game consoles. Advertising has played a special role in Minecraft's success. The graphics of the mincraft game take the form of three-dimensional irregularities. The gamer lives in an infinite world of Legos and freely chooses how to play. The goal of Minecraft is Lego-building. The gamer's mission is to collect the Legos that are scattered in the game and stack them somewhere so they can build a house. The Minecraft story proceeds in two modes, creative or survival, at the player's choice. In survival mode, the player faces dangers and limitations. In creative mode, the player's hands are completely free and only their creativity gives the game its appeal. This game has both individual and group modes.

The PUBG game: PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

The title of the most popular battle royale video game, with a total of 1 billion and 770 million downloads of the original PUBG, can be considered as belonging to this game. Thanks to gamers' incredible support, PUBG Mobile became the top mobile game in 2021 for the third consecutive year. China, as the highest-earning country from video games, has the highest revenue from this game. Downloading PUBG for computer and mobile from Google is also possible. This game has occupied more than 400 million gamers. PUBG also holds the record for the fastest sales. PUBG ranks fifth on the list of the best-selling games in history.

This game's peak of attention occurred during the COVID-19 period. The greatest popularity of PUBG Mobile relates to the years 2019 and 2020. In the final months of 2019 the download record, and in the early months of 2020 the sales record, of PUBG Mobile were broken. During the COVID-19 quarantine of 2020, PUBG Mobile had 270 million dollars in monthly revenue. PUBG's highest daily active user figure also belongs to this same year. 65 million people were fighting on PUBG's maps every day. PUBG's rival is Fortnite. Battle royale games boosted the video game industry. Original PUBG, by focusing on the vast markets of India and China, was able to overtake Fortnite.

What is the PUBG game

PUBG was made by PUBG Studios and published by the Korean holding company Krafton, Microsoft and Tencent Games. The genre of this game is battle royale. On a map, two opposing groups fight one another, while the playing field constantly shrinks and people must keep themselves inside it. PUBG's group character has turned it into an exciting friendly pastime.

PUBG is a one-player or two-player or group combat on a vast map of the game. After landing from the airplane, the PUBG video game character must quickly search boxes and houses across the game's vast space to find weapons, ammunition, a backpack and a vest, and fight to stay alive in order to win the game. Korea's PUBG is among the most addictive video games ever made. The difficulty of the gameplay and the combats is balanced and enjoyable; at the same time players must act in a calculated way, with care and skill.

PUBG's most important rival was another battle royale game named Fortnite from Epic Games. PUBG, by focusing on the vast markets of India and China, was able to overtake Fortnite. The game's crossing of China's strict red lines on internet access was due to the Chinese holding company Tencent's participation in publishing it. A company that is considered the fourth-largest internet holding company in the world.

The GTA 5 game: Grand Theft Auto V

In 2013, among the world's most famous video games such as The Last of Us and Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag and Call of Duty: Ghosts, it was the original GTA 5 that, with sales of more than 32 million copies, became the year's best-selling video game. GTA 5 was named the best game of 2013. Given downloads of GTA V for phones and for computers, this video game ranks as the second best-selling game in history and the third in sales speed. The game's genre for Android and game consoles appears in the action-adventure games group. Ranking as the twelfth most popular game on IMDB's list of 250 is among this game's other honors.

2020 was this game's best year in terms of sales. Unlike PUBG, in the post-COVID period the trend of GTA 5's audience is still rising. GTA 5 for PlayStation 4 has been Sony's best-selling ps4 game. Viewership figures for the game's streams on Twitch are also rising. The GTA V game series is the fifth best-selling series in video game history. Viewership figures for the game's streams on Twitch are also rising. In May 2021, stream viewership on the Twitch platform reaches 253 million hours. The maker of GTA V, Rockstar, has a distinguished record in open-world games. In addition to the gta v game, another product of this game-making company is named Red Dead Redemption, or the Dead Indian's Redemption game.

The tetris game

This game was first designed and made in the 80s by a Russian game maker named  Alexey Pajitnov. Tetris Android is a simple, classic puzzle game. Downloading Tetris for computer, with 500 million downloads, is the best video game in history in terms of number of downloads. In answer to the question of what Tetris is, it should be said that colored cubes fall from the top of a screen and the gamer must rotate them in the right way so that they sit next to one another at the bottom of the screen with no hole left between them. In the harder stages of the tetris game the pieces fall faster, which is why deciding how to arrange these objects becomes difficult and may lead to losing this video game. This game had 100 million paid and legal downloads in 2010 alone. Tetris is the best-selling paid mobile game in video game history. (PUBG Mobile was free.) This game is considered a franchise and has numerous series.

Online Tetris is an addictive video game that can rescue people from dead, tedious situations. Tetris, or the creative cube, is better known in Iran as the house-building game. Downloads of old Tetris for Android and Tetris for computer were so numerous that it has become the best-selling paid game in real terms in the video game industry. Tetris EA is one of the Tetris game series and is considered the third best-selling Android game in the world. This professional Tetris game was made by Mobile EA and published by Electronic Arts for various platforms.

Conclusion

The video game industry is a profitable industry with high turnover that meets many of today's human needs, from the need for amusement and passing time to the need to experience excitement and transgression. In a world that Max Weber describes as an iron cage, the gta game makes an unregulated, free life possible. Works such as Red Dead Redemption and Assassin's Creed, besides being a pleasing combination of story and image and music and gameplay, also take us into the heart of a historical period. Sports-genre games evoke the excitement of sporting competitions, and casual games rescue us from tedium in idle hours. Meanwhile some games have been successful and widely followed in various respects, of which we have mentioned only four in this text. This list can go on. Games such as FIFA, Pokemon, Terraria, Hitman, Call of Duty and many other games are among the most popular and most famous video games in the world.