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Gaming · Dec 3, 2025

Top Video Games from US Studios

Circana’s 2025 year-to-date U.S. sales board tells us which domestic studios are still minting cultural currency.

Briefing by Anderson Evans.

US games
Source: studio showreels for Visual Concepts, EA Tiburon, and Bethesda.

Using Circana’s 2025 year-to-date U.S. dollar-sales data (Jan 5–Nov 1) as summarized by GameSpot, these are the ten best-selling titles developed primarily by U.S.-based teams. The “Overall rank” column shows where they sit once global studios are added back into the mix.

US rank (US dev) Game (release year) Primary US developer(s) Main 2025 platforms Overall US sales rank*
1 NBA 2K26 (2025) Visual Concepts (Novato, CA) PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch / Switch 2, PC 2
2 Borderlands 4 (2025) Gearbox Software (Frisco, TX) PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PC (Switch 2 version announced) 4
3 EA Sports College Football 26 (2025) EA Orlando / EA Tiburon (Orlando, FL) PS5, Xbox Series X/S 5
4 The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered (2025) Bethesda Game Studios (Rockville, MD) + Virtuos PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PC 6
5 Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (2024) Treyarch (Santa Monica, CA), Raven Software (Madison, WI) PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PC 7
6 Madden NFL 26 (2025) EA Orlando / EA Tiburon (Orlando, FL) PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch 2, PC 8
7 MLB The Show 25 (2025) San Diego Studio (San Diego, CA) PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch 9
8 Ghost of Yotei (2025) Sucker Punch Productions (Bellevue, WA) PS5 (lead platform) 10
9 WWE 2K25 (2024) Visual Concepts (Novato, CA) PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PC 13
10 NBA 2K25 (2024) Visual Concepts (Novato, CA) PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch 19

*Overall rank references Circana’s 2025 U.S. year-to-date best-selling games list by dollar sales (physical + select digital).

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