Here are the results from the poll posted in May. (https://lemmy.ca/post/64421437)
Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/12yFvkpWgWpSsx200KUUnyVsW2wbfwowf
YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/V7khLevB3wU
Top 7
- D&D (all editions)
- Pathfinder (all editions)
- Daggerheart
- Shadowdark
- Draw Steel
- Nimble
- Call of Cthulhu (all editions)
Special callout from Bob to Cottagecore Goblin Lesbians Destroy Capitalism RPG.
I recall Call of Cthulhu is huge in Japan.
Yep! The relative smallness of D&D in Japan is only secondarily about Sword World existing, and primarily about just how popular CoC is there, from what I can tell. CoC seems to just generally be better-known internationally than Pathfinder is, or was at the time at least.