Blazing A Trail To Success
Diablo Immortal earned $49 million in first month
The game earns over $1 million a day
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Netflix Numbers
Netflix mobile games exceed 13 million downloads
Subscription service titles have seen five million downloads since January 2022
Predicting And Projecting
Sensor Tower: player spending on mobile games reaching $117 billion by 2026
Apps to outpace games in terms of spending, but gaming predicted to remain the largest individual category.
Revenue Report
Mobile game revenue decreased for first time ever in Q1 2022
Sensor Tower's State of Mobile Gaming 2022 report shows revenue and install variation by country
Download Deluge
Voodoo becomes the third-largest global company in app installs
The sole European member of the top six
Revving And Racing
Hill Climb Racing zooms to two billion installs
Milestone reached as studio and IP approach 10th anniversary
Puzzle Players
Sensor Tower: US puzzle game spending increased 4.2% to $5 billion
Decline in downloads witnessed across the board
Flight To Five Billion
Rovio surpasses five billion lifetime mobile game downloads
Angry Birds creator continues to soar
Hypercasual On Top
Adjust: hypercasual made up 27% of global mobile downloads in 2021
2021 saw CPI increase, but retention rates followed
Hypercasual On Top
Sensor Tower: Merge Master was the most downloaded game for March 2022
Free Fire in second place with 25.5 million downloads
Hypercasual Downloads
Merge Master - Dinosaur Fusion was the most downloaded hypercasual game in Q1 2022
Homa Games latest title scores big in India according to AppMagic
Stifled Spending
Sensor Tower: Q1 2022 mobile games spending dropped 7.1% to $21 billion
Honor of Kings, PUBG Mobile, and Genshin Impact were the highest grossing games
Productising Publishing Process
ironSource surpasses two billion downloads across 50 published games
Two years since the launch of publishing solution Supersonic
Wordlegate
The 'wrong' Wordle sees downloads soar since 2022
Over five years since the game launched the newfound success is on the back of the recent web-based game of the same name
Free Fire First
Sensor Tower: Global mobile game downloads reached 4.4 billion for February 2022
Free Fire places first for second month this year at 21.8 million downloads
Four Billion
Miniclip exceeds 4 billion downloads
8 Ball Pool is the studios most popular title with over one billion downloads
Hypercasual Hits
Hypercasual publisher TapNation surpasses 500 million downloads
Ice Cream Inc. in the top spot with 171 million installs
The Lion's Share
Mobile games consumer spending reached $22 billion for Q1 2022
65% of all consumer spending is on games
Going Strong
SuperGaming's Silly Royale surpasses 17 million downloads following Squid Games-inspired event
Squid Games-inspired in-game event a key driver
No Stopping Yet
AppQuantum surpasses 100 million downloads
Idle merge game Gold and Goblins is the most downloaded title
Skill-based Spending
Tether Studios surpasses $250 million lifetime revenue
Over 30 million downloads across 27 titles
Drawing An Audience
Kwalee’s Draw It surpasses 100 million downloads
The company’s most downloaded and lucrative game to date
Love Island Launch
Love Island The Game 2 is now Fusebox Games’ most successful launch
Seeing high retention rates
Top Charts
Uptodown: The platform's most popular mobile games from the past 10 years
From Angry Birds and Plants vs. Zombies to PUBG Mobile and PUBG Mobile
Privacy Problems
AppsFlyer: Apple’s privacy update caused 35% in-app purchase revenue decline
iOS user acquisition spend fell 13%, Android jumped 35%
Garena Going Strong
Free Fire was the most downloaded game for January 2022
Subway Surfers comes in close second
Investor Encouragement
Supercell highlights excitement for external developers and importance of young talent
The Level Up program begins
Making Milestones
Voodoo surpasses 6 billion downloads across games and apps
One billion downloads achieved in the past 9 months
4 Million In 11 Days
Bravely Default Brilliant Lights reaches four million players in first 11 days
Featuring new and returning characters
Win For Wordzee
Wordzee surpasses 5 million downloads worldwide
Further improvements planned to increase long-term user engagement in 2022
Hypercasual Hustle
CrazyLabs hits five billion downloads
Hypercasual hit factory CrazyLabs announces new downloads milestone and shares future plans and games
Slowly Growing
Netflix games surpass 8 million downloads, says Apptopia
Teeter (Up) leads the 12 games at 820,000 downloads
Maskgun Millions
MaskGun surpasses 60 million downloads in three years
Gets biggest update yet
Still Completely Free
Rocket League Sideswipe swiped 20 million downloads in 40 days
Reached number one in US and UK for December 2021
Action Advances
Genshin Impact drove US Action mobile game spending in 2021
Hypercasual was the most downloaded genre
A Whale Load
Whaleapp surpasses 40 million mobile game downloads
158% growth in the past 3 months
Uptodown-loads
Uptodown: Battle Royale reigns supreme for 2021 downloads
PUBG Mobile tops charts
Games Take Gold
Consumer spending on mobile games and apps will reach $135 billion
Google Play accounts for majority of downloads at over 100 billion
Still Rising
Mobile games will generate $89.6 billion by the end of 2021
Honor of Kings earns $2.9 billion
Machamp Milestone
Pokémon Unite surpasses 50 million downloads in four months
Total downloads across iOS, Android, and Nintendo Switch
Mega Milestone
Gismart surpasses over one billion mobile games and apps downloads
Over 450 million mobile games downloads since 2019
Beast Boosts Brawl Stars
Brawl Stars US downloads surge 350% following sponsorship of Mr Beast's Squid Game
Approximately 324 million lifetime downloads
Boardgame Boost
Marmalade saw UK sales increase 144% during lockdowns
Downloads climbed 678% during third UK lockdown
4x Success
US annual spend on mobile strategy games rises 24%, surpassing $4 billion
4X subcategory dominates the space
Taking Over
PUBG: New State surpasses 20 million downloads in 5 days
Number one mobile game in over 160 countries
A Slow Bloom
Pikmin Bloom generated $473,000 from two million downloads
The seedling is growing
Fantastic Fifth
20% of global game downloads come from India
Battlegrounds Mobile India soars to success during Q3 2021
Firing Ahead
Free Fire continues to outpace PUBG Mobile and Call of Duty Mobile
Growth is accelerating
Outage Outcomes
Users flocked to Among Us and Minecraft during Roblox Outage
Among Us saw sharp rise in downloads during the outage