Top 10 most popular online games in China

League of Legends

League of Legends(abbreviated LOL) is a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game developed by Riot Games and distributed in Chinese mainland by Tencent Inc. It boasts a collection of heroes with a variety of back stories and features EDU systems including rating system and rune system. LOL is also committed to promoting the development of global e-sports, ranging from building professional leagues and an e-sports system. It also works with various regions to annually host three world-class competitions, namely, the Mid-Season Invitational, World Championship, and All-Star Event, which have won the love of hundreds of millions of players and developed its own unique e-sports culture.

CrossFire

CrossFire is a first-person shooter game developed by South Korea's Smilegate Entertainment and operated by Tencent Games who also acts as the exclusive agent service company. The game tells an epic global conflict between two mercenary corporations named "Black List" and "Global Risk". There are many modes in the game, such as Team Death-match, Big Head, Ghost Mode etc., with the new form of understaffed replenishment introduced in the real-time enrollment system. In November 2016, CrossFire was honored as "China's Top 10 IP Game".

Dungeon Fighter Online

Dungeon Fighter Online (Dungeon & Fighter, D&F)is a 2D role-playing game (RPG) developed by Neople and published by Samsung Electronics, which was released officially in August 2005 in South Korea and operated by Tencent Games in China. The 2D side-scrolling online beat 'em up game gathers a large number of features of home console and 2D arcade hack and slash games. Focused on the growth of mission-guided characters, along with instance, PvP and PvE, D&F also carries the dynamics of equipment and levels like other online games. With a total of more than 500 equipment props, D&F allows each character eight props places, and four (at most) players to team up and challenge stages in the game, or 4v4.

World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft (WoW)is the first massively multi-player online role-playing game (MMORPG) created by the renowned Blizzard Entertainment. Set in the same universe as the Blizzard's Warcraft series of real-time strategy games, WoW possesses the complete timeline with historical events and heroes of Warcraft, where players adventure, carry out tasks, experience new areas, explore the unknown world and conquer monsters. NetEase took over the licensing of WoW from The9 on June 7, 2009, before which The9 conducted specific testing on the afternoon of March 21, 2005, and it was put into operation on June 6, 2005. After the temporary maintenance of China’s servers in the early morning of July 19, 2018, Version 8.01 of China servers was officially launched.

Fantasy Westward Journey

Fantasy Westward Journey is an online game developed and operated by NetEase. Set in Chinese classic novel of Journey to the West, the game has created a romantic style of online gaming with cute characters of Chibi. The game was the most popular online game in China in terms of peak concurrent users (PCU), with a peak count of 2.71 million (at 14:45 on August 5, 2012). Its registered users exceeded 310 million, with 472 toll servers. The game was renamed Fantasy Westward Journey IIon June 24, 2013, and confirmed as Fantasy Westward Journey PC version on February 29, 2016.