Minecraft is, by far and away, the most popular video game on YouTube, according to new figures released by the video platform as part of its end-of-year round-up.
To celebrate the imminent evaporation of 2019, YouTube has unveiled its latest Rewind video, offering a brisk, but still almost entirely insufferable, run-down of the things viewers have fixated on the most over the last 12 months.
The most pertinent section (for us at least), arrives around the 2:30-mark – but if you’d rather not subject yourself to YouTube’s nonsense, allow me to supply the key details.
This year’s fifth most-watched video game, with an impressive 29.6 billion views, is online creation platform Roblox. That’s followed by free-to-play mobile battle royale game Garena Free Fire, with 29.9 billion views. Next up is Grand Theft Auto 5 with 36.9 billion views, and just missing the top spot at two is Fortnite with 60.9 billion views.
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The clear winner, however, still holding off the competition over a decade after its original release, is Minecraft. According to YouTube, developer Mojang’s much-loved survival sandbox adventure beat Fortnite to number one by over 40 billion video views, managing to accrue a staggering 100.2 billion views in 2019.