With us comfortably into 2025 now, Microsoft is looking back to last year, sharing some stats on the best-performing Xbox games across its digital storefront in 2024. From total units sold to Daily Active Users, the top 20 titles from each category have now been revealed.

Taking to its Xbox Wire Blog, Microsoft officially unveiled its Xbox Excellence Awards: “Honoring the studios behind the games you loved most in 2024.”

Across the 1000+ games released on Xbox over 2024, Microsoft revealed its top 20 titles (in no particular order) under the categories ‘Store Rating; Player Engagement; Daily Active Users and Units Sold’.

The full list of titles can be found HERE, but some of the more interesting games to have made the lists include:

Store Rating:

• The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria
• Lollipop Chainsaw RePop
• Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
• Little Kitty, Big City

Player Engagement:

• Star Wars Outlaws
• Skull and Bones
• MLB The Show 24
• House Flipper 2

Daily Active Users:

• Dead Island 2
• Fallout 4
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Heart of Chornobyl
• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

Units Sold:

• 7 Days to Die
• Dragon’s Dogma 2
• Star Wars Outlaws
• Phasmophobia

As mentioned, this is just a snippet of the full list of titles published in no particular order. Furthermore, it’s worth noting that the categories do have some stipulations – with Store Rating requiring at least 500 reviews; Player Engagement specifically targeting the first 6 weeks on sale and Daily Active Users counting the highest single-day figures.

Regardless, it is always interesting to get data on the performance of games across the industry – even if it is in no particular order.

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