Twitter: ranking of the most popular games in 2021

Twitter has published the ranking of the most tweeted games in 2021, that is, those that were most often mentioned in messages entrusted to the popular social network, with Genshin Impact being the most popular by far.

So let's first look at the ranking of the most tweeted games of 2021, with related hashtags:

1. Genshin Impact (@GenshinImpact)
2. Apex Legends (@PlayApex)
3. Ensemble Stars! (@ensemble_stars)
4. Final Fantasy (@FinalFantasy)
5. Fate/Grand Order (@fgoproject)
6. Animal Crossing: New Horizons (@animalcrossing)
7. Knives Out (@game_knives_out)
8. Minecraft (@minecraft)
9. Project Sekai (@pj_sekai)
10. Fortnite (@fortnitegame)

It should also be noted that the countries that tweet the most about video games are Japan in the lead and followed by the USA, South Korea, Thailand, Brazil, the Philippines, and Indonesia, while the top European countries come only in eighth and ninth position with the UK and France, while India closes the top ten.

2021 was another record-breaking year for Twitter and also for gaming on the network, with more than 2.4 billion tweets about video games over the year, a 14 percent increase over the previous year that reached an all-time high in the last quarter of 2021.

Among the most tweeted video game events of the year, E3 2021 was the most talked about on Twitter, followed by The Game Awards 2021 and Xbox Game Showcase 2021.