Newzoo: only 33% of Minecraft players are younger than 20
And more open-world games insights are inside.
Newzoo shared a big article related to open-world games that can be found here. What’s interesting:
16.7% of top-1000 games on consoles have open-world. On PC there are 18.7% of such games.
In April 2021 the largest MAU was in Call of Duty/Call of Duty Warzone - 23.1 million users. Fortnite is second with 22.8 million. And third is evergreen GTA V - 20 million MAU.
Almost 3/4 of open-world games on PC are adventures or RPG.
26.6% of PC gamers have played sandbox games with open-world in April 2021. On consoles, this share is smaller - 20%.
Only 33% of Minecraft's audience is younger than 20. The core audience (41%) is at the age of 21 to 35. For example, The Elder Scrolls has 26% of users younger than 20 and 50% of users in the age of 21 to 35.
50% of the audience of the top-5 open-world games is in the US and Western Europe.