Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Nigeria, Poland, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Participants were aged 16-65+, and all qualified as active gamers, defined as playing video games for at least one hour per week via console, PC/laptop, tablet, mobile, or VR. Quotas and screening criteria ensured a minimum of 1,000 active gamers per country. All respondents were recruited via professionally accredited consumer research panels.
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Global video gamers who play games with others worldwide 2025, by frequency
A 2025 survey of video gamers found that around one in three gamers worldwide played video games with other people on a weekly basis. Overall, ** percent of respondents stated that they played video games with people they had not met in real life but online weekly, while ** percent of respondents claimed to do so daily.
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Entertainment Software Association. (October 8, 2025). Share of video gamers worldwide who play video games with others in 2025, by frequency [Graph]. In ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ. Retrieved July 27, 2026, from /statistics/1624923/global-video-gamers-who-play-with-others-by-frequency/
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