YouTube spelled out the games that are overwhemingly popular in one country.
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Here are the top 25 most-popular games on YouTube by country

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Gamers are different in every country. And some new research by YouTube shows that some games are uniquely popular in just one country, and some games are popular across lots of countries.

YouTube sifted through its data to understand the distinct geographic quirks to gaming on YouTube. The division of Google selected the 25 countries with the highest gaming viewership based on time watched in 2016 on YouTube.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.