Trends · data through September 2026

Video Games in the United States

Iceflower tracks 3,016 stores from 10 video games in the United States. Video Games Etc grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Disc Replay and Press Start.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
10
Tracked stores
3,016
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked video games

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Video Games Etc and Disc Replay sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 V Video Games Etc - +13.7%
2 D Disc Replay - +10.7%
3 P Press Start ▲1 +4.1%
4 G GameStop logo GameStop - -0.2%
5 G Game Over Videogames logo Game Over Videogames ▲1 -2.2%
6 D Dragon City - -4.8%
7 S Slackers - -18.4%
8 G Game X Change ▼2 -72.2%
  • GameStop
  • Disc Replay
  • Dragon City
  • Cartridges Galore Video Games
  • Video Games Etc
  • Game Over Videogames
  • PlayNTrade
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

3,016 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • GameStop (2,879)
  • Disc Replay (33)
  • Dragon City (35)
  • Cartridges Galore Video Games (7)
  • Video Games Etc (6)
  • Game Over Videogames (9)
  • PlayNTrade (5)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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