List Of Best-selling PC Games
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) that have sold or shipped at least one million copies. If a game was released on multiple platforms, the sales figures list are only for PC sales. This list is ''not'' comprehensive because sales figures are not always publicly available. Subscription figures for
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games such as '' Hearthstone'' are not taken into account as they do not necessarily correspond to sales. For those, see the
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List of PC games The following list of PC games contains an alphabetized and segmented table of video games that are playable on the PC, but not necessarily exclusively on the PC. It includes games for multiple PC operating systems, such as Windows, Linux, DOS, Un ...
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List of best-selling video games This is a list of video games that have sold the highest number of software units worldwide. The best-selling video game to date is ''Minecraft'', a sandbox game released by Mojang in May 2009 for a wide range of PC, mobile and console plat ...


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