2022 has a huge range of exciting video games scheduled for release, especially as we saw many delays to highly anticipated titles last year. To figure out which titles the world is most enthusiastic about purchasing, the e-commerce experts at Studio analysed Google data to decipher which games people have been searching for the most.
Studio divided the titles into entirely new games coming out in 2022, and games that are re-releasing this year. It ranked its results according to global search results and UK-specific results.
Elden Ring Is By Far The Most Highly Sought-After Game Of 2022
- Elden Ring – 939,000 Google searches
- God Of War: Ragnarok – 768,000 Google searches
- Dyling Light 2 – 563,000 Google searches
- Horizon: Forbidden West – 524,000 Google searches
- Starfield – 282,000 Google searches
- Gran Turismo 7 – 270,000 Google searches
- Diablo Immortal – 246,000 Google searches
- WWE 2K22 – 212,000 Google searches
- Gotham Knights – 208,000 Google searches
- Splatoon 3 – 164,000 Google searches
It was found that Elden Ring is the most highly anticipated game, with search data from 2021 and January 2022 proving it to be by far the most searched for in both the UK and worldwide.
Mobile games were not as highly anticipated – console and PC games reigned supreme across the board.
God of War: Ragnarok is the most highly anticipated PlayStation-exclusive, with over 76,000 searches
Starfield is the most highly anticipated Microsoft-exclusive title, with over 28,000 searches
Splatoon 3 is the most highly anticipated Nintendo-exclusive title
Cyberpunk 2077 is still the most Googled game of any other re-release coming out in 2022
In the UK, Pokemon Legends of Arceus was the only other Nintendo release more popular than Bayonetta 3
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