China’s Top 10 Most Popular PC Games (October 2013)

It has been a couple months since we last looked at the games Chinese PC gamers are playing the most (at least in internet cafes), but with the month of October having come to a close, we’ve got new data to work with. So how did China’s top ten look last month? Here you have it:

1. League of Legends. The DOTA-style competitive online game that has been immensely popular worldwide.
2. CrossFire. China’s version of Counter-Strike (a tactical first-person shooter), another oldie-but-goodie that was actually developed by Korean devs SmileGate and released in 2007.
3. DNF (also called Dungeon & Fighter, Dungeon Fighter Online, etc.). A Korean-developed (Neople) beat-’em-up game that’s pretty old (released back in 2005) but still very popular in China.
4. QQ Speed. A 2008 racer developed and released by — no big surprise here — Tencent Games.
5. QQ X5* (QQ炫舞). A casual dance game also first released by Tencent in 2008.
6. AgainstWar (逆战). A Tencent-developed online first-person shooter first released in 2011.
7. Dream of the Three Kingdoms (梦三国). A fantasy battle game developed by Hangzhou-based Electric Soul and released in 2009.
8. Asura (斗战神). A fantasy MMORPG from Tencent that’s based (loosely) on Journey to the West.
9. New Dahua Xiyou 2 (新大话西游2). A new fantasy RPG developed by Netease and released in September that’s also based on Journey to the West (I’ve kept the title mostly in pinyin to help differentiate it from Fantasy Journey to the West 2, the other RPG sequel based on Journey to the West that Netease released this year).
10. NBA2KOL. The online basketball game developed by 2K Sports.

So as you can see, nothing whatsoever has change in positions one through seven on the chart. DOTA 2, which looked ascendant a few months ago, has dropped back down to the number 11 spot, and it seems that League of Legends remains China’s uncontested MOBA champion.

The only other thing to note here is the presence of Asura and New Dahua Xiyou 2, both of which made their beta debuts in September of this year. In the time that I’ve been watching things, it isn’t too common to see brand new games jump right into the charts like this, but it will be even more impressive if either of them can manage to crack the top five, which has been more or less the same for quite a while now.

(via Tencent Games)