1) Tetris – 495 Million Units Sold
The 10 Best Selling Games of All Time
Candy Crush might be the modern era’s go-to brain teaser puzzle game, but Tetris reigned supreme for nearly three decades before it. The first video game to ever be exported from the USSR to the USA, Tetris exploded in popularity and has since been made available on virtually every gaming platform.
It first set the world on fire when it was made available for Nintendo’s handheld console, Game Boy, back in 1989, selling 35 million units in total. But while those numbers put both Tetris and the Game Boy on the map in the early nineties, the game has since found a new lease of life on mobile. Over 425 million units have now been sold on mobile, making it the best selling paid game on the platform. That truly mammoth figure means Tetris easily trumps even its closest rivals as the best selling game of all time.
