Most Expensive Video Games Ever Made by Production Budget
Key Findings
About This Dataset
Most Expensive Video Games Ever Made by Production BudgetThe top three in Production Budget (Million USD) in 2025 are GTA VI (2,000), Star Citizen (700) and Red Dead Redemption 2 (540). GTA VI and Star Citizen together hold 56.8% of the combined total of all 8 entities. Only 1 of the 8 reaches even half the leader's figure (1,000 or more). It takes the next 4 entities (Star Citizen, Red Dead Redemption 2, Destiny, Cyberpunk 2077) added together to match GTA VI.
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Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia
- Coverage
- 8 entities · 2011–2025 (7 years) · 8 observations
- Measure
- Production Budget (Million USD)
- Last updated
- 6 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
- Values use the measure and unit named on this page. Consult the dataset description and cited source for coverage, definitions and any unit conversions. Displayed values may be rounded for readability.
- Missing years are left empty rather than estimated — no interpolation, no carrying a previous year forward.
- Change is measured between the first and last year in which an entity actually reported a value, so a series that starts late is not penalised for the years before it existed.
- The compound annual rate is (last ÷ first)^(1 ÷ years) − 1, using those same two reported years.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2025.
- An entity that reported nothing in the latest year is still listed — it follows the ranked entities in the table rather than being dropped.
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