Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 and BeamNG.drive Top PlayStation's October Charts

Sony has published its monthly rundown of the PlayStation Store's most-downloaded titles, and October's chart offers a snapshot of a storefront split between a blockbuster shooter and an unlikely physics-sandbox hit. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 led the PS5 charts in both the US/Canada and EU regions, while BeamNG.drive, a vehicle-simulation game built around deformable car crashes, landed in the top three on both lists.

The lists, published monthly on the PlayStation Blog, only cover PlayStation Store purchases and exclude game upgrades or titles bundled with console hardware, so they measure digital spending rather than total player counts. Even with that caveat, October's rankings mark a shift from September, when Marvel's Wolverine and EA Sports FC 27 held the top PS5 spots across the two regions; both titles fell back into supporting positions once Modern Warfare 4 arrived.

Modern Warfare 4 and a car-crash sim share the top of PS5

Activision's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, which launched on October 23 with early access to its campaign a week earlier, held the top PS5 spot in both regions for its first full month on sale. Behind it, the charts diverge slightly by region: BeamNG.drive placed second in the US/Canada list and third in the EU list, while EA Sports FC 27 took the reverse positions. Phantom Blade Zero, the Team Ninja-developed action game that launched on PS5 and PC in late October, held fourth place in both regions.

Further down both US/Canada and EU rankings, Madden NFL 27, NBA 2K27 and Peak also charted, alongside Minecraft and Star Wars: Galactic Racer. The EU list added Enshrouded and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt in its lower half, where the US/Canada list instead carried Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve and Marvel's Wolverine.

A ten-year-old sandbox on a shooter's leaderboard

BeamNG.drive's presence in the top three is the chart's most unusual result. The game, developed and published by BeamNG, first released on PC in 2015 and built its reputation on a soft-body physics engine that simulates vehicle damage down to individual panels and parts rather than relying on pre-set crumple animations. Its appearance alongside a newly launched Call of Duty entry suggests the PS5 port, which arrived on the platform's download charts for the first time this year, is drawing a sustained audience rather than a one-month launch spike.

Legacy catalog still rules PS4, Hard Bullet tops VR2

The PS4 chart, which tracks older hardware still active alongside PS5, was led by Red Dead Redemption 2 in both regions, with Batman: Arkham Knight holding second in the US/Canada list and third in the EU list. The PS VR2 chart told a different story: Hard Bullet, a physics-driven melee and gunplay game, topped both regional lists, ahead of established VR titles Horizon Call of the Mountain and Beat Saber. Hard Bullet is also sold on Steam, where it supports Valve's Index alongside other headsets.

Free-to-play splits between a shooter and a survival game

Once Human, the free-to-play survival title, led the US/Canada free-to-play chart and placed second in the EU, where Fortnite took the top spot. Call of Duty: Warzone held the second and third positions across the two regions, with Roblox rounding out the top three on both lists. Rocket League and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege also appeared on both regional charts, in slightly different orders.

What the October numbers suggest

Taken together, October's charts point to a PlayStation Store where a single blockbuster launch, Modern Warfare 4, dominates the top line while older and smaller titles sustain stronger-than-expected positions underneath it. Phantom Blade Zero's steady fourth-place finish in both regions is notable on its own, since the action game shared its October launch window with both Modern Warfare 4's first full month and the ongoing push toward Grand Theft Auto VI's November 19 release, one of the most anticipated launches on the platform this year.

Sony's monthly download charts, published on the PlayStation Blog, draw only from digital purchases through the PlayStation Store and exclude game upgrades or titles bundled with hardware, so they are a partial read on sales rather than a full accounting of each game's performance. Naming conventions can also differ slightly between the US/Canada and EU storefronts, which Sony notes directly on the chart itself.