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Best Selling PC Games

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783

7.2

The Sims - PC Games

Sales: 16 million
Release: 2000
Genre: Virtual Life
Publisher: Electronic Arts

* Total includes original plus all expansions, special editions, and bundles

List-All's rating:

1150

7.6

The Sims 2 - PC Games

Sales: 13 million
Release: 2004
Genre: Virtual Life
Publisher: Electronic Arts

* Total includes original (5.2 million) plus all expansions, special editions, and bundle packs

List-All's rating:

992

7.6

World of Warcraft - PC Games

Sales: 11.8 million subscribers
Release: 2004
Genre: Massive Multiplayer Online RPG
Publisher: Blizzard

622

8.1

StarCraft - PC Games

Sales: 11 million
Release: 1998
Genre: Real-Time Strategy
Publisher: Blizzard

List-All's rating:

785

8.1

Half-Life - PC Games

Sales: 9.3 million
Released: 1998
Genre: First Person Shooter

List-All's rating:

1022

8.4

Half-Life 2 - PC Games

Sales: 6.5 million
Release: 2004
Genre: First Person Shooter

List-All's rating:

173

7.5

Myst - PC Games

Sales: 6 milion
Released: 1993
Genre: Adventure

List-All's rating:

343

7.2

Guild Wars - PC Games

Sales: 6 million (including all expansions)
Release: 2005
Genre: Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing game (MMORPG)

318

7.5

The Sims 2: Pets (Expansion) - PC Games

Sales: 5.6 million
Release: 2006
Genre: People simulator (add-on)

262

7.7

Battlefield 1942 - PC Games

Sales: 4.39 million (including all expansions)
Release: 2002
Genre: Online First Person Shooter

List-All's rating:

499

7.6

Counter-Strike - PC Games

Sales: 4.2 million
Release: 2000
Genre: Online FPS

267

7.9

RollerCoaster Tycoon - PC Games

Sales: 4 million (North American sales only)
Release: 1999
Genre: Management Strategy

List-All's rating:

770

8.2

Diablo II - PC Games

Sales: 4 million
Release: 2000
Genre: Action Role-Playing Game

List-All's rating:

World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King

259

8.4

World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King - PC Games

Sales: 4 million
Release: 2008
Genre: MMORPG Expansion

7.3

Populous - PC Games

Sales: 4 million
Release: 1989
Genre: God-mode strategy

List-All's rating:

7.2

Cossacks: European Wars - PC Games

Sales: 4 million
Release: 2000
Genre: Real-Time Strategy

List-All's rating:

541

7.2

DOOM 3 - PC Games

Sales: 3.5 million
Release: 2004
Genre: First Person Shooter

List-All's rating:

7.3

Everquest - PC Games

Sales: 3.5 million
Release: 1999
Genre: Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing game (MMORPG)

6.6

Theme Park - PC Games

Sales: 3.5 million
Release: 1994
Genre: Management Strategy

359

8.3

World Of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade - PC Games

Sales: 3.5 million
Release: 2007
Genre: MMORPG (add-on)

410

7.8

Sid Meier's Civilization IV - PC Games

Sales: 3 million
Release: 2005
Genre: Empire building strategy

641

7.9

Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos - PC Games

Sales: 3 million
Release: 2002
Genre: Real-Time Strategy

List-All's rating:

413

7.5

Age of Empires - PC Games

Sales: 3 million
Release: 1997
Genre: Real-Time Strategy

List-All's rating:

598

8.2

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - PC Games

Sales: 3 million (includes X360 version)
Release: 2006
Genre: Fantasy Role-Playing Game

List-All's rating:

302

7.9

Command & Conquer: Red Alert - PC Games

Sales: 3 million
Release: 1996
Genre: Real-Time Strategy

List-All's rating:

535

7.8

Diablo - PC Games

Sales: 2.5 million
Release: 1997
Genre: Action Role-Playing Game

List-All's rating:

430

7.4

Age of Empires III - PC Games

Sales: 2.5 million
Release: 2005
Genre: Real-Time Strategy

7.1

Anno 1602 A.D. - PC Games

Sales: 2.5 million (including 1602 A.D.)
Release: 1999
Genre: Real-Time Strategy

List-All's rating:

6.8

Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars - PC Games

Sales: 2.5 million
Release: 2005
Genre: Real-Time Strategy

500

8.2

BioShock - PC Games

Sales: 2.2 million (includes X360 version)
Release: 2007
Genre: First Person Shooter

List-All's rating:

406

7.5

Battlefield 2 - PC Games

Sales: 2.09 million
Release: 2005
Genre: Online First Person Shooter

List-All's rating:

310

8.2

Baldur's Gate - PC Games

Sales: 2 million
Release: 1998
Genre: Fantasy Role-Playing Game

List-All's rating:

325

8.7

Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn - PC Games

Sales: 2 million
Release: 2000
Genre: Fantasy Role-Playing Game

List-All's rating:

282

7.9

Sid Meier's Civilization III - PC Games

Sales: 2 million
Release: 2001
Genre: Empire building strategy

371

7.5

Neverwinter Nights - PC Games

Sales: 2 million
Release: 2002
Genre: Fantasy Role-Playing Game

List-All's rating:

256

7.9

Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness - PC Games

Sales: 2 million
Release: 1995
Genre: Real-Time Strategy

List-All's rating:

329

6.9

Black & White - PC Games

Sales: 2 million
Release: 2001
Genre: God-mode Strategy

List-All's rating:

252

7.7

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl - PC Games

Sales: 2 million
Released: 2007
Genre: First Person Shooter

305

8.6

Mafia - PC Games

Sales: 2 million
Release: 2002
Genre: Third-person Shooter

117

7.7

Prince of Persia - PC Games

Sales: 2 million
Release: 1990
Genre: 2D Action Platformer

List-All's rating:

507

8.1

Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings - PC Games

Sales: 2 million
Release: 1999
Genre: Real-Time Strategy

List-All's rating:

110

7.3

Riven: The Sequel to Myst - PC Games

Sales: 2 million
Release: 1997
Genre: Puzzle Adventure

List-All's rating:

7.1

The 7th Guest - PC Games

Sales: 2 million
Release: 1992
Genre: Puzzle Adventure

List-All's rating:

329

8.1

DOOM II: Hell on Earth - PC Games

Sales: 2 million
Release: 1994
Genre: First Person Shooter

7.6

Ragnarök Online - PC Games

Sales: 2 million
Release: 2002
Genre: MMORPG

List-All's rating:

6.9

Sacred - PC Games

Sales: 1.8 million
Release: 2004
Genre: Action RPG

372

7.8

Quake - PC Games

Sales: 1.7 million
Released: 1996
Genre: First Person Shooter

List-All's rating:

245

The Orange Box - PC Games

Sales: at least 1.5 million
Release: 2007
Genre: First Person Shooter

List-All's rating:

377

7.8

Crysis - PC Games

Sales: 1.5 million
Release: 2007
Genre: First Person Shooter

7.6

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning - PC Games

Sales: 1.5 million shipped
Release: 2008
Genre: MMORPG

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An incomplete list of best-selling PC games of all time. It's incomplete because getting full results of sales across all platforms, re-releases, and from all types of vendors is problematic to say the least.

The games on this list are ones that have published aprox sales figures, with minimum of 1 million sales, and listed from best-seller onwards.

Latest figures taken from wikipedia page on January 2008: link

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