Most Downloaded PS5 Games of 2025 Revealed, as Xbox's Forza Horizon 5 Tops Ghost of Yotei

FYI Ryan Hurst has been casted as kratos

I think the charts interesting in one way and bog standard in another, 2025 was a great year for games regardless.

@Max_the_German it was the highest placed single player title in one list and a single place behind the goty single player game in the other list. Not exactly sure what point you think you are managing to make

It simple it’s about the right game at the right time.
PS5 hasn’t really got a FH type game and Europe does like these sort of games.
I’m not sure if GOY which is a game I prefer over FH5 a little bit more has had great sales overall and also PS5 has got lots of action adventure games.

But it goes to show and I guess always has, doesn’t matter who makes the game, it’s the game that counts overall.

This year will be interesting to see if any Sony Studio game and of course being Wolverine will sell less than one of Xbox studio many games coming to PS5 this year. If any it could be Gears E day or FH6 possibly.

Also I think this year will and going forward make Xbox studios with the most games on PlayStation. What an unreal change to the PS4 era. Where Sony game wise were king of their own console.

@ShogunRok maybe it's time to close the comments section as it looks like it's about to go way off topic..

@Max_the_German I believe the kids would call that a L take

Interestingly, Forza Horizon 5 did really well in Europe, hitting fourth place, but it could only manage 14th in North America.

I wonder is this down to the US being Xbox's best market, while it's effectively been dead in lots of Europe for a long while now.

@Max_the_German Brother this is a article about the most downloaded video games.....

These lists are always depressing to look at, no wonder why everyone chases the live service train.

I feel like a new copy of GTAV is purchased every time a child comes into the world, someone has to be buying it.

It’s mass market palatable, no surprise. Both are great games in their respective genres, but I personally need way more than driving around in circles to hold my attention. Yotei had a great story, character development and fantastic gameplay; I played it far more than Forza 5.

@Oram77 And GoY, SIE’s star of 2025, is on 9 and 11 respectively. As SIE, I wouldn’t be happy. And I‘m sure there WILL be discussions why it didn’t perform better. And I think they will compare Jin and Atsu and will draw comparisons with Joel and Ellie of Part 2.

The fact gta V is still ranks in the top 3 downloaded titles of 2025 blows my mind. I wonder how long gta 6 will exist before (if) we get gta 7? Also, how much money has gta 5 made rockstar since launch? I know it has some of the highest production costs of any game (although star citizen has raised a ton of money through early access), but it must surely have one of the highest return to cost ratio’s of any triple A title in history.

@Max_the_German

As SIE, I wouldn’t be happy. And I‘m sure there WILL be discussions why it didn’t perform better

I’m pretty sure Sony is happy with that spot. I cant imagine they assumed GoY would sell more than the usual top selling games like GTA, Minecraft, CoD, and the yearly sports games etc.

Heck they even sold more than the GOTY winner in the US. And considering their game released only 3 months ago, in the 10th month of the year, but still managed to get so many downloads is very good (not to mention GoY got a physical release, so many copies arent event counted in this top download list)

I think Forza Horizon 6 will be back here in the top 10 list at the end of this year or next year.

Also Forza released in April, Yotei released in October, I'm sure if Yotei had 6 more months of sales it would be higher.

@UltimateOtaku91 I guess its hard for people to see nuance when they’re giddy with excitement about seeing Sony fail 😆

@LogicStrikesAgain

I‘d love to see Sony thriving with PS5 exclusives from PS Studios. What was the last game with that level of impact, both financially and critically? Wikipedia says Spidey and God of War, both in 2018. Now it’s the year 2026.

Edit: Okay, Spidey 2 performed good as well. But there are not many PS Studios games on PS5 with huge success, unfortunately.

@Max_the_German

i mean sie’s first party single player titles dont really have that much of a budget so they still make very good profit

"So, what do you make of these charts?"

Ghost of Yotei has long legs and still stay strong 🤝

But it's really funny to see some people got very salty to see Yotei success. Some of them even boldly claim that Yotei stop selling and the game already completely lost it's popularity or what they called "noise" from gaming media lol.

@Max_the_German "As SIE, I wouldn’t be happy"

Thanks the heaven you're not SIE!

I can't imagine someone like you, who's not happy to see a game with $60 million budget already sold 3.3 million copies aka made PROFITS from the 1st month and 3 months later it's still selling well, can properly lead a big company. Big chance you gonna bankrupt SIE on the 1st day you sit on that CEO chair lol.

Alot of people missing out on an absolute masterpiece in Death Stranding 2. If you enjoyed the first one, there’s no way you’ll not have a great time with the sequel. 10/10 game for me. I’m 131 hours in at the moment and only 2/3 of the way done.

@judgmentarrows In the long term, a platform like PlayStation lives from is exclusives with „wow“ appeal. No question that in the moment, PlayStation is very healthy even with few games of this calibre. But the decline of Xbox is something that also reminds Sony that permanent success is not a given and not guaranteed. And ND games are THOSE „wow“ games to keep the platform fresh and exciting.