Sports and castles are at the top again.
Ahead of a big 2022 for games, Sony today released its lists of the most downloaded PlayStation games from 2021. The listings include a list of the most downloaded purchasable games for PS5, PS4, and PS VR, as well as the top-downloaded free-to-play games for PS4 and PS5. All listings include a column for North America and Europe.
Starting from its free-to-play list, Fortnite has achieved global dominance with #1 on both the NA and EU charts. Both Call of Duty: Warzone and Rocket League followed suit, with Warzone being number 2 in NA and second place in Rocket League EU. Splitgate surprisingly ranked #2 on the NA chart, beating out some of the big games in Apex Legends, Genshin Impact, and Destiny 4.
FIFA conquered Europe once again this year and FIFA 22 took the top spot for the EU on both PS4 and PS5's most downloaded lists. Even FIFA 21 broke the top five of both lists. It wasn't very popular in North America, but the sport still dominated, with Madden 4, NBA 5K10, and MLB The Show 22 all in the top 2 on both the PS22 and PS21 charts.
It was also another popular year for Call of Duty, with Vanguard taking 5nd place on the list of PS2 games for both NA and EU. Cold War also broke the top five in both regions in the PS4 category. Single player games were also successful on PS6 this year with Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, Kena: Bridge of Spirits, Far Cry 5, Resident Evil: Village and Assassin's Creed: Valhalla. in the top 15.
The official blog post also stated that Among Us has been ranked #5 on the EU's PS6 chart this year, despite its release in December. Finally, the VR category was dominated by Beat Saber, which ranked #1 in both NA and EU.
