{"id":868156,"date":"2025-12-18T15:13:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/sea-of-thieves-was-the-most-downloaded-playstation-5-game-in-may\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T15:13:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:13:40","slug":"sea-of-thieves-was-the-most-downloaded-playstation-5-game-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/sea-of-thieves-was-the-most-downloaded-playstation-5-game-in-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea Of Thieves Was The Most Downloaded PlayStation 5 Game In May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/sea-of-thieves-was-the-most-downloaded-playstation-5-game-in-may.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"Sea of Thieves most downloaded PlayStation 5 game in May\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" class=\"image-style-body-default\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sony released the list of its highest-downloaded games across all its platforms in May, and Rare\u2019s Sea of Thieves has topped the PS5 charts in two territories. The former Xbox exclusive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2024\/02\/21\/sea-of-thieves-sets-sail-for-playstation-5-this-april\">first arrived on the platform<\/a> on April 30.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.playstation.com\/2024\/06\/13\/playstation-store-may-2024s-top-downloads\/\">PlayStation Blog post<\/a> reveals that Sea of Thieves was the best-selling PS5 title across the US\/Canada and the EU, beating out top-performing games like Grand Theft Auto V, Madden NFL 24, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III. That&#8217;s quite the debut and shows that PlayStation owners have an appetite for the open-world co-op pirate game. It\u2019s also worth noting that Grounded, another first-party Xbox exclusive that was brought to PlayStation in April, placed 11th on this list (for the US\/Canada).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here\u2019s the full list of top 20 best-selling PS5 games in the US\/Canada for May<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sea of Thieves<\/li>\n<li>Madden NFL 24<\/li>\n<li>Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III<\/li>\n<li>Helldivers 2<\/li>\n<li>NBA 2K24<\/li>\n<li>MLB The Show 24<\/li>\n<li>Stellar Blade<\/li>\n<li>Fallout 4<\/li>\n<li>Who\u2019s Your Daddy?!<\/li>\n<li>Tom Clancy\u2019s Rainbow Six Siege<\/li>\n<li>Grounded<\/li>\n<li>Another Crab\u2019s Treasure<\/li>\n<li>Marvel\u2019s Spider-Man 2<\/li>\n<li>NHL 24<\/li>\n<li>Killer Klown\u2019s From Outer Space: The Game<\/li>\n<li>Rise of the Ronin<\/li>\n<li>Assassin\u2019s Creed Mirage<\/li>\n<li>WWE 2K24<\/li>\n<li>Elden Ring<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more on Sea of Thieves, we spoke to Rare to reflect on the series shortly before its PS5 launch. You can read that retrospective <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/feature\/2024\/04\/29\/sea-of-thieves-retrospective-life-at-sea\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[<em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.playstation.com\/2024\/06\/13\/playstation-store-may-2024s-top-downloads\/\">PlayStation Blog<\/a><\/em>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2024\/06\/13\/sea-of-thieves-was-the-most-downloaded-playstation-5-game-in-may\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony released the list of its highest-downloaded games across all its platforms in May, and Rare\u2019s Sea of Thieves has topped the PS5 charts in two territories. The former Xbox exclusive first arrived on the platform on April 30.&nbsp; A PlayStation Blog post reveals that Sea of Thieves was the best-selling PS5 title across the US\/Canada and the EU, beating out top-performing games like Grand Theft Auto V, Madden NFL 24, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III. That&#8217;s quite the debut and shows that PlayStation owners have an appetite for the open-world co-op pirate game. It\u2019s also worth noting that Grounded, another first-party Xbox exclusive that was brought to PlayStation in April, placed 11th on this list (for the US\/Canada).&nbsp; Here\u2019s the full list&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/sea-of-thieves-was-the-most-downloaded-playstation-5-game-in-may\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":868157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-868156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-informer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sea Of Thieves Was The Most Downloaded PlayStation 5 Game In May | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta 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