These have been Canada’s best-selling video games in January and February 2026

The Leisure Software program Affiliation of Canada (ESAC) and Circana have revealed the best-selling video games in Canada in January and February.

See beneath for each lists.

January

1. NHL 26 (EA Vancouver/EA)
2. Name of Responsibility: Black Ops 7 (Treyarch/Raven/Activision)
3. EA Sports activities FC 26 (EA Vancouver/EA)
4. Minecraft (Mojang/Xbox)
5. Battlefield 6 (Battlefield Studios/EA)
6. NBA 2K26 (Visible Ideas/2K)
7. Crimson Useless Redemption 2 (Rockstar Video games)
8. Grand Theft Auto V (Rockstar Video games)
9. Code Vein II (Bandai Namco)
10. Forza Horizon 5 (Playground Video games/Xbox)

It needs to be famous that almost half of the checklist no less than partially hails from Canadian groups. NHL 26 and EA Sports activities FC 26 have been each developed by EA Vancouver, whereas Quebec Metropolis-based Beenox assisted with improvement on Name of Responsibility: Black Ops 7 and Montreal-based Motive is one in every of 4 groups comprising Battlefield Studios that collectively made Battlefield 6. On high of all of that, Rockstar Video games has an Oakville, Ont.-based studio that helped out with GTA V and Crimson Useless Redemption 2.

It’s additionally price mentioning that, not counting the most recent entries within the annualized sports activities sequence, Code Vein II is the one new 2025 sport to make the checklist. In any other case, all the different video games hail from years prior. For context, the Canadian checklist is nearly similar to its U.S. counterpart, except for Code Vein II inserting ninth on ours as an alternative of one other JRPG, Remaining Fantasy VII Remake.

February

1. Resident Evil Requiem (Capcom)
2. Name of Responsibility: Black Ops 7 (Treyarch/Raven/Activision)
3. NHL 26 (EA Vancouver/EA)
4. Dragon Quest VII: Reimagined (Hexadrive/Sq. Enix)
5. NBA 2K26 (Visible Ideas/2K)
6. EA Sports activities FC 26 (EA Vancouver/EA)
7. Diablo II: Resurrected (Vicarious Visions/Blizzard)
8. Battlefield 6 (Battlefield Studios/EA)
9. Minecraft (Mojang/Xbox)
10. Helldivers II (Arrowhead/PlayStation)

Total, February’s checklist is fairly just like January’s, with the one main distinction being, unsurprisingly, that the hotly anticipated and critically-acclaimed Resident Evil Requiem topped the checklist. In any other case, many of the identical sports activities and Rockstar video games charted as soon as once more. It’s price noting that the five-year-old Diablo II: Resurrected charted, probably due to its new Reign of the Warlock DLC that added a brand new Warlock class.

What’s maybe most noteworthy in February, although, was that the Dragon Quest VII remake positioned fourth in Canada in comparison with ninth within the U.S. This can be a development we’ve seen since ESAC began sharing this knowledge in 2023 of JPRGs tending to chart greater in Canada than within the U.S. As an alternative, Helldivers 2 positioned fifth within the U.S., a good bit greater than it did in Canada.

Wanting forward, March’s checklist might be attention-grabbing to see as a result of each PlayStation and Nintendo launched main new video games in Marathon and Pokémon Pokopia, respectively. Different high-profile releases in March embrace Slay the Spire II (early entry), MLB The Present 26, Monster Hunter Tales 3: Twisted Reflection, and Life is Unusual Reunion.

Picture credit score: EA/Capcom