Most popular Xbox games — Indiana Jones and the Great Circle replaces Minecraft in top 3

Our latest Xbox gameplay chart shows Indiana Jones and the Great Circle performing an impressive feat by replacing Minecraft in the top three.

Heidi Nicholas

Published 16 Dec 2024

Clearly we're all having a great time hunting down the Indiana Jones and the Great Circle achievements, as our latest Xbox gameplay chart shows Indy zooming up to the near top of the chart where — and this is a big deal — it's replaced Minecraft in the top three.

Now, it's big news when anything makes it into the top ten or top five, and an even greater feat to break into the top three, which is usually dominated by Call of Duty, Fortnite, and Minecraft. Of course, these major names often reclaim their places pretty quickly, but it shows how popular Indy has been that a single-player game is rising that high.

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle was of course one of the biggest and most-hyped games for the end of 2024, but it's proven itself worthy of such excitement. Tom loved it in his Indiana Jones and the Great Circle review!

Marvel Rivals still sits just below at fourth while Minecraft has moved down to fifth. Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl hasn't had as good luck this week, falling six places to 12. It joined Game Pass a little before Indy, so players might be taking a break to try out the latest major release, but Tom's Stalker 2 review will give you some great reasons to check it out again.

The first of this week's new appearances is Hunt: Showdown 1896, which breaks into the top 40 at 20 after joining Game Pass last week. A little further down, Cyberpunk 2077 has made a sizeable leap, jumping up from 39 to 24, which is perhaps due to Update 2.2 arriving last week.

On the other hand, Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 have both seen a substantial drop: the first has fallen from 16 to 27 and the second from 17 to 28. Just below, we see For The King II making its first appearance at 29th after joining Game Pass. This week's three reappearances are Warframe at 34, Elden Ring at 39, and The First Descendant at 40.

Top 40 Xbox Gameplay Chart for the week ending December 15, 2024

Position	Game	Publisher	Last week
1	Call of Duty	Activision	1
2	Fortnite	Epic Games	2
3	Indiana Jones and the Great Circle	Bethesda Softworks	11
4	Marvel Rivals	NetEase Games	4
5	Minecraft	Xbox Game Studios	3
6	Grand Theft Auto V	Rockstar Games	7
7	ROBLOX	Roblox	5
8	EA SPORTS FC 25	Electronic Arts	9
9	Rocket League	Psyonix	8
10	Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege	Ubisoft	10
11	Forza Horizon 5	Xbox Game Studios	12
12	S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl	GSC Game World	6
13	Overwatch 2	Blizzard Entertainment	13
14	EA SPORTS College Football 25	Electronic Arts	15
15	Destiny 2	Bungie	14
16	NBA 2K25	2K Games	18
17	EA SPORTS FC 24	Electronic Arts	20
18	Apex Legends	Electronic Arts	21
19	Halo Infinite	Xbox Game Studios	19
20	Hunt: Showdown 1896	Crytek	-
21	Halo: The Master Chief Collection	Xbox Game Studios	22
22	Red Dead Redemption 2	Rockstar Games	24
23	EA SPORTS Madden NFL 25	Electronic Arts	26
24	Cyberpunk 2077	CD Projekt	39
25	PUBG: Battlegrounds	KRAFTON	27
26	Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine II	Focus Entertainment	40
27	Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled	Activision	16
28	Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024	Xbox Game Studios	17
29	For The King II	Curve Games	-
30	Forza Motorsport	Xbox Game Studios	31
31	Genshin Impact	Cognosphere	23
32	Phasmophobia	Kinetic Games	32
33	Dead by Daylight	505 Games	29
34	Warframe	Digital Extremes	RE
35	Microsoft Solitaire Collection	Xbox Game Studios	35
36	Fallout 76	Bethesda Softworks	30
37	Diablo IV	Blizzard Entertainment	28
38	Sea of Thieves	Xbox Game Studios	34
39	Elden Ring	Bandai Namco Entertainment	RE
40	The First Descendant	NEXON	RE

Chart compiled using gameplay data from over 2.4 million active Xbox accounts. Chart information is copyright GameInsights. For details on how the chart is calculated, click here.

Perhaps Elden Ring's resurgence is partly due to the announcement of Elden Ring Nightreign as a standalone co-op title. Nightreign was one of several big announcements from an action-packed event for The Game Awards — for more on what was shown, check out our round-up of all the Xbox reveals and Game Pass announcements at The Game Awards 2024.

What do you think will make it into the top ten next? Where will Indy land next week? Let us know in the comments!

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Written by Heidi Nicholas

Heidi tends to lean towards indie games, RPGs, and open-world games on Xbox, and when not playing Disney Dreamlight Valley, happily installs every new wholesome game that appears on Xbox Game Pass, before diving back into favorites like The Witcher 3. She's looking forward to Age of Mythology Retold, Everwild, Fable, and Avowed on the Xbox horizon. Heidi graduated with an MA in English Literature before joining the TrueAchievements team.