Candy Crush Saga, Gardenscapes, and Homescapes are the highest-grossing mobile match-3 games according to AppMagic
The analytics service AppMagic has named the ten mobile games in the match-3 genre with the highest revenue from IAP. More than half of the projects in the top list are games from King and Playrix.
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Note that AppMagic reports net revenue—the amount remaining after companies have paid commissions to mobile stores and taxes. Additionally, this is solely income from in-game purchases, excluding ad revenue.
According to AppMagic, the top ten have collectively earned $25.7 billion over the entire monitoring period.
Top 10 Mobile Match-3 Games by AppMagic:
1. Candy Crush Saga (King) — $7.4 billion;
2. Gardenscapes (Playrix) — $3.9 billion;
3. Homescapes (Playrix) — $3.4 billion;
4. Candy Crush Soda Saga (King) — $2.9 billion;
5. Royal Match (Dream Games) — $2.7 billion;
6. Fishdom (Playrix) — $2.1 billion;
7. Line PokoPoko (LINE Corporation) — $940 million;
8. 开心消消乐 (Happy Elements Technology) — $865 million;
9. Farm Heroes Saga (King) — $838 million;
10. Project Makeover (Magic Tavern) — $733 million.
AppMagic also indicated that Candy Crush Saga is the leader among these games not just in revenue but also in downloads (1.3 billion) and in the size of its daily active audience (42 million people). However, the highest RpD (revenue per download) was achieved by Line PokoPoko at $49.3.
