EA Sports FC 25, Space Marine 2, Astro Bot and PS5 impress in bumper September | UK Monthly Charts
3.88 million PC and console games were sold in the UK across September, a rise of 8% over 2025.
This is based on GSD data supplied to GamesIndustry.biz.
The jump in game sales is the result of six new titles in the Top Ten.
The No.1 game was, unsurprisingly, EA Sports FC 25. The new football game saw launch sales drop 4.6% over last year's title. Although the game's sales are slightly lower than last year, the game's premium early access edition actually performed better year-on-year.
EA Sports FC was the runaway winner, but that shouldn't take away from a phenomenal performance of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 at No.2 in the charts.
The Saber Interactive and Pullup Entertainment title is already the third best-selling new game released this year, behind the aforementioned EA Sports FC 25 and February's Helldivers 2.
The third biggest game of the month is The Crew 2 from Ubisoft. The 2018 racing title was discounted to under £1, which was just to cover the game's platform fee, which caused a huge surge in sales.
At No.4 in the charts is Star Wars Outlaws. It was a disappointing start for Ubisoft's game, and is now tracking (slightly) behind the launch of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, which was developed by the same studio and released back in December 2023. Ubisoft is now actively pushing Star Wars over the Q4 sales window.
And rounding off the Top Five is Astro Bot from PlayStation. It's a strong start for Sony's platformer. The game's first four weeks of sales are up 24% compared with 2021's Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, which was the previous PS5-only game aimed at a broader gaming audience.
Other new games in September include NBA 2K25, which is tracking 14% behind last year's NBA title. And just making the Top Ten was The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom. After one week, the 2D Zelda game posted sales 14% below that of 2019's Link's Awakening remake (which was made in the same art style). However, this is purely physical sales, and so the real figures may be a lot
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