Overseas revenue for Chinese developers rises by 11% to $9.5bn in H1 2025

China’s games market revenue rose by 14% year-over-year to a record ¥168 billion ($23.4bn) in H1 2025, according to a new report.

As reported by China Daily, the new Game Publishing Committee and Expert Committee on Game Industry Research said Chinese developers also saw overall overseas revenue grow by 11% to $9.5 billion during the first half of the year.

The US took up the biggest share at close to 32%. Simulation games were said to be the largest drivers of revenue at 43.3%.

China mobile game revenue, meanwhile, increased by 16.5% to ¥125.3bn ($17.4bn). The MOBA genre, which includes titles like Tencent’s Honor of Kings and Riot Games’ League of Legends: Wild Rift, accounted for 20.4% of sales.

Revenue from WeChat mini-games was reported to have surged by 40.2% to ¥23.3bn ($3.2bn).

Overall, the number of Chinese gamers increased by 0.72% to 679 million. For context, the country is said to be home to more than 1.4 billion people.

Further analysis

PocketGamer.biz recently released its own report into China’s games market, including insights from industry leaders and data from AppMagic and Newzoo.

You can download the full report for free right here.

We also just wrapped up our Pocket Gamer Connects Summit Shanghai event, which took place on July 30th ahead of ChinaJoy. You can read all about it here.