The leading bestseller game in the U.S. last month was Assassin’s Creed Shadows, reports Circana analyst Mat Piscatella in a recent report. Monster Hunter Wilds, which topped the chart in February, fell to the third position.

The analytics company Newzoo has named the top-grossing and most popular games on PC and consoles for March 2025.

The founder of the analytics service GameDiscoverCo, Simon Carless, shared which games released last month earned the most on Steam.

Which games released in the first three months of 2025 turned out to be the most successful? We have prepared an extensive analysis based on sales charts from various countries and platforms, insights from analytical companies like Newzoo, as well as official data from developers and publishers.

Ubisoft announced that the audience for Assassin’s Creed Shadows has surpassed 3 million players. This number was reached within a week of the game’s release: it launched on March 20.

For the week from March 18 to 25, the leader in the Steam sales chart among paid games was Assassin’s Creed Shadows. In the overall ranking, which also includes free-to-play titles, Counter-Strike 2 has been in the lead for the third consecutive week.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows had the best retail launch sales among games released in the UK in 2025. This was reported by the head of GamesIndustry, Christopher Dring, citing GfK data.

Ubisoft shared the initial results for Assassin’s Creed Shadows. In less than 24 hours after its release, it engaged over a million players.

Thanks to the spring sale, many old hits have predictably returned to the top of Steam’s best-selling games. However, the top five remain almost unchanged.

Sources from insider Tom Henderson have discovered the status of the pre-sales for Assassin’s Creed Shadows. According to them, as of today, the number of pre-orders for the game has reached 300,000 copies.