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Top 30 Open world games in Japan

This curated ranking covers the 30 largest open world games in Japan, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Minecraft, Fallout 4 and Fallout (series) lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 4.3M people. Across all 30 entries the average audience size is 191k, and the largest, Minecraft, reaches around 3.2M people in Japan. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Japan who actively engage with each open world game, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Japan and are refreshed weekly.

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Rank

Position in the Top 30, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in Japan who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in Japan. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in Japan, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in Japan. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
1 Minecraft 3.2M 29.0 37.3% Open world game
2 Fallout 4 560k 24.5 23.5% Open world game
3 Fallout (series) 523k 27.9 55.9% Open world game
4 Watch Dogs 280k 25.3 31.5% Open world game
5 Dark Souls 176k 32.7 5.6% Open world game
6 The Legend of Zelda 154k 26.6 50.3% Open world game
7 Metal Gear Solid 110k 28.3 51.1% Open world game
8 The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 91k 27.6 50.0% Open world game
9 Fallout 3 84k 28.9 13.2% Open world game
10 The Witcher 78k 25.8 52.8% Open world game
11 Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood 77k 41.9 19.3% Open world game
12 The Elder Scrolls: Arena 72k 26.2 37.1% Open world game
13 The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall 69k 26.9 28.8% Open world game
14 Metal Gear 55k 26.1 48.1% Open world game
15 Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain 48k 30.5 48.5% Open world game
16 Fallout 2 29k 28.6 34.0% Open world game
17 The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 27k 29.6 53.0% Open world game
18 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – Dawnguard 21k 30.7 40.6% Open world game
19 The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind 21k 25.9 39.8% Open world game
20 The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess 17k 27.9 63.5% Open world game
21 Assassin's Creed II 16k 50.6 8.5% Open world game
22 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – Hearthfire 11k 28.6 58.2% Open world game
23 Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas 8.6k 28.4 16.4% Open world game
24 Assassin's Creed (video game) 7.4k 31.4 23.6% Open world game
25 Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines 5.4k 51.1 8.8% Open world game

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Frequently asked questions

How is this Top 30 list compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across Japan and ranks each open world game by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest open world game in Japan?

Minecraft currently leads with an estimated audience of 3.2M people in Japan.

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