The data is compiled with the support of the multiplayer platform Overwolf, which connects players in online PC games and also makes a kind of connection between computer games and applications. In the company's appstore, more than 300 free titles are found.
In other words, the ranking of the most played video games in the world is based on the number of sessions played online, and not on commercial performance.
The list applies to North America and Europe, so the 10 most accessed titles are:
League of Legends
Genre: Multiplayer online battle arena
Developer: Riot Games
Also known by the acronym LOL, it is a true global fever, played by more than 27 million people daily.
There are LOL championships all over the world, and their best players are real celebrities, with rockstar status and great soccer players, like the South Korean Kuro, with more than a thousand kills in his career.
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft
Genre: Online Card Game
Developer: Blizzard Entertainment
Recently voted the best multiplayer game by the Google Play Awards, Hearthstone has reached the mark of more than 70 million players online, which makes it among the most played video games in the world.
Minecraft
Genre: SandboxI
Developer: Mojang Specifications
Second best-selling game in the world in 2016, with more than 100 million units sold, Mincecraft is a sui generis game, without similars on the market, at least in style.
In Minecraft, the challenge is to form worlds based on square blocks, more or less as in SimCity, the famous city-building game.
One of the most played video games in the world and the largest in its category.
Counter Strike: Global Offensive
Genre: First person shooting
Developer: Valve
Counter Strike is a classic FPS (First Person Shooter), from the same developer of the award winning Half Life series, both equipped with the Source Engine.
World of Warcraft
Genre: MMORPG
Developer: Blizzard Entertainment
One of the most played video games in the world and the most played in the MMORPG genre, it is estimated that World of Warcraft currently has more than 5 million players worldwide.
Overwatch
Genre: First person shooting
Developer: Blizzard Entertainment
Overwatch is also a global FPS fever, and in August Brazil will be part of the game's World Cup, which will be played in the United States.
PlayerUnknown’s Battleground
Genre: Survival game
Developer: Bluehole Studio
Without much plot to justify the objective of the game, which is to survive, in PlayerUnknown’s Battleground your goal is just one: to stay alive, and for that, you must eliminate the other players who are on the island where your character is trapped.
Played on the Steam platform, it also supports team mode.
Heroes of the Storm
Genre: Multiplayer online battle arena
Developer: Blizzard Entertainment
One more Blizzard Entertainment game on our list, which has in Heroes of the Storm a battle arena style game for anyone to fix.
The game's proposal, which is also part of the world competition calendar, is to bring together heroes and villains from different sagas, such as Diablo, StarCraft, Warcraft and Overwatch.
World of Tanks
Genre: Action
Developer: Wargaming Chicago-Baltimore
Game of the year for the Golden Joystick Award, World of Tanks is nothing short of an immense pitched battle, in which military tanks fight each other in a frantic dispute over the territory.
Rocket League
Genre: Sport
Developer: Psyonix
In Rocket League, you control a car, in a game of… football. The proposal is so original that it was awarded in 2015, the year of its launch, with the Game Awards in the Best Independent Game category.
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