About GamesChart

GamesChart tracks the numbers behind popular games: the odds publishers disclose, what a game costs to play, how many people are playing it, how long it takes to finish, and how critics and players rate it.

We publish game data pages, a weekly chart of the biggest games by player numbers, a drop-rate index and plain-English guides to the maths behind random items, such as how pity and expected value work. Our weekly chart and drop-rate index cover games rated PEGI 12 or higher (or an equivalent 12+ rating); game pages also cover the best-rated games of all time, whatever their age rating, and each page shows that rating.

How we work

Every figure on GamesChart has a source and a date, and each page links to where its numbers came from. If a publisher doesn't disclose a figure, we say so rather than estimate it. The full process is in our methodology.

There is no advertising on GamesChart, and nobody can pay for a place in a chart or a change to a figure. When we get something wrong, we fix it on the page and note the date of the correction. Our editorial policy sets out the rules.

Our text and figures are free to reuse under the CC BY 4.0 licence, as long as you credit GamesChart and link to the page you used.

Who runs GamesChart

GamesChart is published and edited by Aashish Khakhar. He runs Bhima Capital, a holding company that builds and operates online publishing and ecommerce sites, and handles the data, SEO and technical work across them himself. He checks every dataset and chart on GamesChart before it goes live.

Aashish is an old-school PC gamer. The game he always comes back to is Command & Conquer: Generals, the 2003 real-time strategy game, along with the fan-made mods that have kept it alive for more than twenty years. He also used to play Age of Empires and the other strategy classics of that era.

These days he has far less time to play than he would like. He is counting down to Grand Theft Auto VI, but most weeks his gaming hours go into building GamesChart instead. That is part of why the site exists: when you only get a few hours to play, it helps to know what a game costs, how long it takes and whether people are still playing it before you start.

About the domain

The gameschart.com domain previously belonged to a Manchester games company founded in 2009. Today's site is run by a different publisher and has no connection to that business.

Get in touch

Corrections, data tips and press enquiries go to info@gameschart.com. Game developers and studios can add their games through our developer page.