15 Best-Selling Call Of Duty Games

Thefranchise has been ingrained in popular discourse since its inception in 2003, and it has produced one of the most devoted and die-hard fan bases in the entire gaming community. The franchise itself is the best-selling first-person shooter video game series, reaching that milestone with over 400 million games sold by 2021. In the years since that achievement, sales numbers have continued to grow, and the enjoyment that players have with the series remains.

The series as a whole has enjoyed quite a bit of success, with each separate title seeing its own varying levels of triumph. currently has 24 games in its main series lineup, with an astonishing 52 titles when all DLC and mobile games are added to that list, as of September 2024. Each game with in its title has sold many copies for various platforms. Here are the top-selling games in the franchise, with the most recent data available at the time of writing.

The third entry in the franchise came right before the series really started to take off. Developed by Treyarch and published by Activision, sold over seven million copies, more than double the sales of its predecessor. The game was a launch title on the PS3, and featured advanced graphics for its time.

had some of the franchise's staple features, including the gritty historical war setting. Although it had a multiplayer mode, had a robust single-player campaign that fans could play from the point of view of an American, British, Canadian, or Polish soldier on the Western front of World War 2.

When was released in 2022, it became the fastest selling game to date. Within a week of its launch, the game earned over $1 billion USD and became the best-selling game of that year. The exact number of copies sold to date is not readily available, but the game officially sold more than eight million copies in just the first week that it was out.

Call of Duty’s latest is a worthy namesake to the original Modern Warfare 2, but it doesn’t necessarily break new ground