The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: Remastered launched in a not-so-surprising shadow drop on the tail finish of the month, and in only one week managed to vastly outsell the unique Oblivion’s first 15 months in the marketplace.
This comes from Circana, which studies that Oblivion was not simply the best-selling recreation within the U.S. for the month of April in greenback gross sales, and the third best-selling recreation of 2025 to date, it additionally offered extra models in April than the unique Oblivion managed in its first 15 months, and introduced in extra money than the unique Oblivion did in its first 14 months. Whereas that is admittedly not an enormous shock given the massively bigger set up base Oblivion offered into now in comparison with 2006, it is nonetheless an unimaginable feat.
The rest of April’s high 20 current some fascinating twists on the standard suspects we see on the charts. In second place for the month was Forza Horizon 5, up from No.42 final month attributable to its PS5 launch. Following it’s MLB: The Present 25 at No.3, after which Minecraft at No.4, up from No.11 and virtually definitely using a excessive from the discharge of the Minecraft film earlier in April.
At No.5 was final month’s winner, Murderer’s Creed: Shadows, and it is adopted by Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle at No.6. It is up from No.118 final month due to, like Forza, its PS5 launch. As Circana analyst Mat Piscatella notes, 4 of the highest 5 — and 5 of the highest seven — best-selling video games of the month on PlayStation platforms have been revealed by Microsoft.
It is also value declaring that The Final of Us: Half 2 jumped from No.23 to No.13 this month, presumably as a result of second season of the TV present. And whereas Schedule 1 would not seem on the gross sales charts, it did rank No.1 in U.S. complete month-to-month energetic customers on Steam (Name of Responsibility topped the MAU charts on PlayStation and Xbox).
When you’re an RPG fan, you may be questioning the place the heck Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is. Per Piscatella, writer Kepler Interactive would not share digital knowledge with Circana, and thus Expedition 33’s digital gross sales aren’t counted and sure resulted in it not showing wherever on the chart. Piscatella did inform me that its bodily gross sales ranked it among the many high 35 best-sellers in April, No.22 on PlayStation, and it was nineteenth in month-to-month energetic customers on Xbox and twenty first on Steam. “It launched in direction of the tip of the month, and began a bit gradual (participant rely rankings have improved every week since launch by Might 10),” he stated. “All of these bits replicate a really profitable end result for a recreation of its sort.
“It is a recreation that was been extremely properly obtained by the fanatic viewers, however by the tip of the month had not crossed over to the mainstream in a big method. We’ll should see what Might finally ends up trying like (with extra bodily copies getting into the market and phrase of mouth pushing the sport to a much bigger viewers).”
General, April client spending on video video games was down 3% year-over-year to $4.1 billion, with content material spending down 2%. Non-mobile subscription spending and console digital premium downloads have been up, however all different content material segments have been down. And equipment spending was down 2%.
{Hardware} was additionally down 8%, reaching the bottom month-to-month {hardware} greenback gross sales complete reached within the U.S. market since July 2020. The PS5 was as soon as once more the best-selling console in each unit and greenback gross sales regardless of dropping 5% from final yr. The Change dropped 37%, however the Xbox Sequence console truly grew its gross sales year-over-year by 8%.
April 2025 U.S. Prime 20 Finest-Promoting Video games:
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: Remastered (NEW)Forza Horizon 5MLB: The Present 25Minecraft*Murderer’s Creed: ShadowsIndiana Jones and the Nice CircleCall of Responsibility: Black Ops 6WWE 2K25NBA 2K25PGA Tour 2K25Monster Hunter: WildsSplit FictionThe Final of Us: Half 2EA Sports activities FC 25Grand Theft Auto VRed Useless Redemption 2The Elder Scrolls: OnlineElden RingKingdom Come II: DeliveranceHogwarts Legacy
* Signifies that some or all digital gross sales will not be included in Circana’s knowledge. Some publishers, together with Nintendo, don’t share sure digital knowledge for this report.
Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. Yow will discover her posting on BlueSky @duckvalentine.bsky.social. Bought a narrative tip? Ship it to rvalentine@ign.com.
