Record #00029Culture & Entertainment archive
Best-Selling Video Game of All Time
Guinness World Records recognises Minecraft as the best-selling video game of all time, with over 350 million units sold.
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over350 millioncopies
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- Start date
- 2025-04
- Record status
- Verified · current
Overview
Archive NoteMinecraft was developed by Mojang, released as a paid alpha in May 2009 and given its 1.0 release in 2011.
It surpassed 300 million sales on 15 October 2023, becoming the first video game to do so.
Guinness World Records gives the current figure as over 350 million units, based on the official Minecraft Annual 2026 published by Mojang in April 2025.
Record history
1 Milestonesover 350 million copies
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