Numbers of actual players of each game in each state can be hard to come by. The game makers themselves certainly have that data, but they, for obvious reasons, hold their cards pretty close to their chest. Even if game makers do publish their active user data, it’s rarely available on the state level, and it should generally be taken with a grain of salt. So rather than soliciting actual active user data from each game maker, we decided to take a different approach.

To determine the most popular online game in each state, we looked at five years of Google search data. We considered dozens of today’s most talked-about online console and PC games—including the following:

FIFA

Minecraft

Call of Duty

DOTA 2

Overwatch

Counter-Strike

Starcraft 2

Fallout 4

Heroes of the Storm

Diablo

Smite

Halo

Battlefield

World of Tanks

Hearthstone

Madden NFL

Gears of War

Destiny

NBA 2K Series

Battlefield

Two clear winners emerged from our analysis: League of Legends and World of Warcraft. In a survey of Google Trends data, LoL and WoW performed better on a state level than competitors from most* genres and platforms.