Top 10 most popular online games in China

Hearthstone

Hearthstone, originally Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, is a collectible card game developed by Blizzard Entertainment, operated by NetEase in China as the exclusive agent. The game builds upon the existing lore of the Warcraft series, with nine heroes from the Warcraft in nine classes. Players use a deck of cards from their collection to guide heroes, command minions and cast spells for the purpose of reducing the opponent's health to zero. Having been released worldwide on March 13, 2014, Hearthstone won the Game Award for Best Mobile/Handheld Game and the second annual SXSW Gaming Awards for Best Mobile Game.

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG)

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG)is a sandbox-based survival shooter game, where players collect resources to force encounters in areas that are decreasing in size over time. The last person or team wins the match. PUBG has won six G-STAR awards, including the highest honor—the Presidential Award, and smashes seven Guinness World Record titles. PUBG officially announced "FIX PUBG" on August 9, 2018, a three-month campaign for destroying bugs to deliver a more player-friendly gaming experience. The PUBG PS4 was released on Dec 7, 2018.

JX 3

JX Online 3(JX 3) is a 3D Martial Arts MMORPG PC game developed by SeaSun Games and published by Kingsoft. JX 3 shows the users ancient Chinese swordsman legends with scenes and lighting effects, engine effects of SpeedTree. Some elements of traditional Chinese culture are also mixed with the game, such as poems, dance, silk, drinking culture, tea art and music to allow players to feel the glorious and magnificent Tang Dynasty. Moreover, the Acrobatics System supported by physics engine improves the players' gameplay experience.

CS:GO

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO)is a first-person shooter game developed by Hidden Path Entertainment and Valve Corporation. It was the fourth game (derivatives like Neo and Online are excluded) in the Counter-Strike series and was released on August 21, 2012 in Europe and America. Two opposing teams, known as the Terrorists (T) and Counter Terrorists (CT), compete in multi-round combats to destroy all opponents or meet goals for the victory. News conferences of CS:GOin China’s servers was held on April 11, 2017 in Beijing.

Dota2

Dota 2is the second sequel to Defense of the Ancients(DotA), which was developed by Valve and IceFrog, the core designer of Dota map, with the beta testing launched on April 28, 2013. The game carried forward the same 100 plus heroes from Dotabut removed multi-player real-time battles run by the Warcraft III's engine which DOTA relied upon. The two teams—known as the Radiant and Dire—occupy the fortified bases in opposite corners of the Dota 2's map, which is divided in half by a crossable river and connected by three paths, referred to as "lanes". Each team has five players independently controlling a hero to make money, purchase equipment, upgrade levels and kill enemies, so as to claim victory by being the first to destroy a large structure located in the opposing team's base, called the "Ancient".