At the end of the year, it’s time to rave about what’s been talked about in the past 12 months.

Tumblr has unveiled its most popular game themes, with lists of the most talked about traditional and mobile games of the year, as well as lists revealing favorite characters and Pokémon.

Tumblr tracks topics through sheer volume, which means that a very popular game on this list also incites a lot of good and bad online discourses. For example, Overwatch is the site’s most popular traditional game. However, a glimpse into the day not only reveals fan-art and videos, but also more critical contributions to Blizzard’s politics.

Overwatch was Tumblr’s top match last year and continues to hold this position, but a new challenger came in second. Are there 27 places in the ranking since last year? Minecraft.

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Tumblr’s Head of Content Insights, Amanda Brennan, attributes part of this popularity to the tenth anniversary of the game in which popular YouTubers stream Minecraft.

In fact, Minecraft experienced a renaissance this year. Many creators opted not only for the jubilee for streaming, but also because the game is family friendly and also appealing to advertisers. Especially at Tumblr, Minecraft is a game that transcends the boundaries of subcultures.

“There’s a lot of aesthetic content (Minecraft), like the beautiful gifs and landscapes where people build things in Minecraft, and we’ll see these types of communities, like the shading community, transition into aesthetic Tumblr,” said Brennan Polygon “It transcends the boundaries of typical people in a gaming community.”

She cites The Sims as another game that sets new standards: Tumblr users release buildings from beautifully decorated homes and pictures of her Sims featuring custom outfits and hairstyles.

“They edit the photos to look like an influencer photo. It’s really interesting to see how the line between the influencer and the sims slowly blurs, “Brennan said.

Sienna Nahl, who is responsible for games and sports at Tumblr, pointed to the high number of indie games at the end of the year, especially compared to larger titles such as Fortnite.

“We have a lot of developers building their developer blogs on Tumblr, which means a lot of commitment. We’ve found that about 30% of our top trending lists for video games are indie games, “explained Nahl. “You’ll see that games like Deltarune, Undertale, and Untitled Goose Game really make the move and surpass other games that are more popular on other platforms like PubG or Fortnite.” On Tumblr only indie games dominate. “

The full list of traditional games can be found below (numbers indicate how much the ranking has changed):

  1. Overwatch (no change)

  2. Minecraft (+27)

  3. Fire sign: three houses (new)

  4. Undertale (-1)

  5. Pokemon Sword and Shield (new)

  6. The Sims 4 (+1)

  7. Persona 5 (-1)

  8. Deltarune (no change)

  9. Danganronpa (new)

  10. Sally Face (new)

  11. Devil May Cry 5 (new)

  12. Red Dead Redemption 2 (new)

  13. Hollow Knight (new)

  14. Splatoon (-9)

  15. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (+1)

  16. Final Fantasy XIV (new)

  17. Stardust Corner (+6)

  18. Borderlands 3 (new)

  19. Kingdom Hearts III (-15)

  20. Dead in daylight (+7)

  21. League of Legends (-12)

  22. Detroit: become human (-20)

  23. Apex Legends (new)

  24. Flight ascending (+1)

  25. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (-10)

  26. Ace Attorney (new)

  27. The Walking Dead Game (new)

  28. Super Smash Bros Ultimate (+18)

  29. Five nights at Freddy’s (new)

  30. Untitled Goose Game (new)

  31. Team Fortress 2 (-10)

  32. World of Warcraft (-21)

  33. Animal Crossing: New Leaf (new)

  34. Destiny 2 (new)

  35. Bendy and the Ink Machine (-18)

  36. Cyberpunk 2077 (new)

  37. Final Fantasy XV (-16)

  38. War Framework (-19)

  39. Dragon Age Inquisition (new)

  40. Fortnite (-11)

  41. Cuphead (-29)

  42. Smile for me (new)

  43. Far Cry 5 (-18)

  44. Monster Prom (-27)

  45. Bayonetta (new)

  46. Bloodborn (new)

  47. Fallout 4 (new)

  48. Life is strange (-25)

  49. A hat in time (new)

In mobile games, visual novels and dating sims dominated the list. Choices: Stories You Play and The Arcana, both visual novels focusing on romance, were at the top of the list. In fact, Brennan says that if both traditional and mobile games were combined, the two titles would be in the top five, with Choices in third and The Arcana in fifth.

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Other mobile gaming trends include games linked to existing franchises such as Fire Emblem Heroes, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery and Pokémon Go. Among others, some newcomers such as Love Island: The Game, based on the eponymous British reality show, and BTSWorld, where you play as manager of the successful Kpop boy band, made it into the top 30.

The top mobile games this year at Tumblr are below:

  1. Choices (+1)

  2. The Arcane (+3)

  3. Fire Emblem Heroes (+1)

  4. Cookie Run (+2)

  5. Mystic Messenger (-2)

  6. Harry Potter: The Secret of Hogwarts (-5)

  7. Eldarya (new)

  8. My sweetie love (-1)

  9. Food Fantasy (+1)

  10. Pokemon Go (-2)

  11. Love Island The Game (new)

  12. Love Nikki Dress Up Queen (-1)

  13. Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp (-1)

  14. Ikemen Sengoku: Romances over Time (-1)

  15. Azur Lane (new)

  16. Granblue Fantasy (-7)

  17. Dragalia Lost (new)

  18. Pokemon Masters (new)

  19. Ikeme Vampire Otome Game (new)

  20. Ikeme Revolution: Otome Game (new)

  21. BanG Dream! (-4)

  22. Identity V (new)

  23. Mr. Love: Queen Choice (new)

  24. Samurai Love Ballad: PARTY (-6)

  25. Sweet Elite (new)

  26. Moonlight Lover (new)

  27. Fallen Hero: Rebirth (new)

  28. BTS World (new)

  29. Touken Ranbu (-15)

  30. Idolish7 (-14)

Tumblr has also added a category for the most popular video game characters. All three main lords and the character of Fire Emblem: Three Houses as well as almost the entire cast of The Arcana were on the list and showed a preference for romantic characters. Overwatch, Undertale, and Kingdom Hearts also had several characters on the list, but it’s Arthur Morgan of Red Dead Redemption 2 who grabbed the first place and defeated more memorable characters like Kirby and Sans Undertale.

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“People just love that it’s a well-written narrative and you can choose to be good or bad,” Brennan said. “You are so immersed in him that I think that really proves why people made him number one.”

Here are Tumblr’s favorite characters from 2019:

  1. Arthur Morgan (Red Dead Redemption)
  2. Kirby
  3. Sans (Undertale)
  4. Julian Devorak (The Arcana)
  5. Sora (Kingdom Hearts)
  6. Count Lucio (The Arcane)
  7. Byleth (fire emblem)
  8. Riku (Kingdom Hearts)
  9. Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd (fire sign)
  10. Virgil (Devil May Cry 5)
  11. Muriel (The Arcana)
  12. Leon S. Kennedy (Resident Evil 4)
  13. Asra (The Arcana)
  14. Sigma (Overwatch)
  15. John Marston (Red Dead Redemption 2)
  16. Papyrus (Undertale)
  17. Kairi (Kingdom Hearts)
  18. Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic)
  19. Frisk (Undertale)
  20. Edelgard (fire sign)
  21. Claude (fire sign)
  22. Ganandorf (The Legend of Zelda)
  23. Jevil (Deltarune)
  24. Roxas (Kingdom Hearts)
  25. Komaeda Nagito (Danganronpa)
  26. Lucio (Overwatch)
  27. Akechi Goro (Persona 5)
  28. Nadia (The Arcana)
  29. Dutch van der Linde (Red Dead Redemption 2)
  30. Mercy (Overwatch)
  31. Connor (Detroit: become human)
  32. Kassandra (Assassin’s Creed Odyssey)
  33. Gavin Reed (Detroit: becoming human)
  34. Sal Fisher (Sally Face)
  35. Xion (Kingdom Hearts)
  36. Ralsei (Deltarune)
  37. Kokichi Ouma (Danganronpa)
  38. Luigi (Mario Games)
  39. Dante (Devil May Cry 5)
  40. RK900 (Detroit: becoming human)
  41. Amamiya Ren (Persona 5)
  42. Soldier 76 (guard)
  43. Hanzo Shimada (Overwatch)
  44. Junkrat (Overwatch)
  45. Ventus (Kingdom Hearts)
  46. Princess Zelda (The Legend of Zelda)
  47. Guzma (Pokemon)
  48. Phoenix Wright (Ass Attorney)
  49. Jesse McCree (Overwatch)
  50. Chara (Undertale)

The other new category added this year is Pokémon. Brennan says she was specially added for the love of Pokémon Sword and Shields Wooloo.

“When we saw Tumblr’s reaction to this new Pokémon and the immediate mood” Wooloo is our baby, “I thought we’d have to look at this list,” she laughed.

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While the list of Pokémon from the new Galar region is filled, Pikachu and Bulbasaur manage to defeat some of their new favorites. According to Nahl, the affinity to these two probably coincides with that of this year’s detective Pikachu.

“Many people were obsessed with the CGI animation they made for Bulbasaur,” she explained.

Tumblr is most excited about Pokémon:

  1. Pikachu
  2. Wooloo
  3. sob
  4. Bulbasaur
  5. Scorbunny
  6. Grookey
  7. eevee
  8. Squirtle
  9. Two
  10. Charmander
  11. Meowth
  12. Charizard
  13. vaporeon
  14. gengar
  15. Yamper
  16. umbreon
  17. Sylveon
  18. Incineroar
  19. espeon
  20. Flareon
  21. Meow
  22. Corviknight
  23. psyduck
  24. Jigglypugg
  25. Snorlax
  26. Lucario
  27. Jolteon
  28. vulpix
  29. Rowlet
  30. leafeon

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