New search traffic data for 2025 is making the rounds and it comes with a headline that caught a lot of people off guard. GTA 6 is no longer the most searched game this year. The top spot now belongs to ARC Raiders, a free to play extraction shooter that launched with a major marketing push and quickly climbed Google’s charts across several regions.
Grand Theft Auto VI has dominated global search rankings for nearly two years and has regularly been one of the most searched entertainment products on the internet. Its trailer reveals broke records and every update from Rockstar has triggered massive spikes in interest. Seeing it lose ground can feel a little strange, but the situation is clearer when you step back and look at what is actually happening.
Timing is the biggest factor because after Rockstar confirmed that GTA 6 was delayed to November 19, 2026, the studio went quiet again. Whenever Rockstar enters a silent period, search traffic naturally cools off. People start searching again when something sparks the cycle. That can be a new trailer, a release date change, a developer update or even a leak. With no new official material since Trailer 2, interest settles until Rockstar updates the fans again. And the timing of going silent ties directly into the release of ARC Raiders.
