Best-selling action-adventure videogame

Best-selling action-adventure videogame
Who
Grand Theft Auto V
What
230,000,000 unit(s) sold
Where
Not Applicable
When
March 2026

The best-selling action-adventure game is Grand Theft Auto V (Rockstar North, 2013), the seventh game in Rockstar's wildly popular series of free-roaming open-world games. As of March 2026, it had shifted approximately 230 million copies.

GTAV made $1 bn (£621 m) in just three days on sale in September 2013, making it the fastest entertainment property to gross $1 bn; indeed, it is two days faster than the 2019 blockbuster movie Avengers: Endgame (USA) grossed that sum.

The game hit a previous sales milestone, 225 million, in February 2026.