App Annie: Temple Run 2 and Puzzle & Dragons dominate the game charts
App Annie company summed up the gaming results of last February in the mobile application market. Read about the download and revenue champions in the iOS and Google Play markets below.
The two central games of February are, of course, Temple Run 2 and Puzzle & Dragons. Imangi’s creation took the first place in downloads on the App Store and Google Play, and the GungHo game, thanks to its crazy success in Japan, turned out to be the leader of the box office tops in these stores.
App Annie analysts also announced “the opening of a new page in the history of casual gaming on mobile platforms.” According to the company, there is a departure to midcore in all genres. It can manifest itself either in the need to think seriously during the game, or the wonders of dexterity manifest themselves.
In the first case, we are talking about projects such as Clash of Clans, Kingdoms of Camelot, Candy Crush Saga, Puzzle & Dragons, LINE POP. In the second conditional category, the company’s specialists included Temple Run 2, Subway Surfers and, for some reason, Angry Birds.
It seems to us that App Annie is not quite right. That is, there is a bevel in a certain direction. Popular games today are really either skill-based or require serious intellectual efforts at certain stages. But this is rather a consequence of the departure to PvP, to the tables of records, and, of course, to free-to-play, which needs to be monetized, including twisting the complexity.
As for the tops, they look like this.
In terms of downloads in the world on the App Store, Electronic Arts is in first place among companies. In second place is Imangi Studios, which was pulled by record downloads of Temple Run 2. Disney closes the top three with 243 applications.
Among the newcomers to the top companies is the German LOTUM, which has released a super-popular game known in the Russian market under the name “4 pictures 1 word”. The company ranks 4th in the world by downloads.
Electronic Arts is not even among the top ten in terms of the number of downloads on Google Play. The first place is for Imangi, the second is for Rovio, and the third is for Italy Games, which was awarded the “bronze” by the Zombie Smasher game.
Among the leading companies in terms of revenue on the App Store is Supercell, which dropped from the first place to the second GungHo Online. The third position is for Electronic Arts. Continues to move up King.com . Her success is due to Candy Crush Saga. GREE closes the top five in the American market, its main rival DeNA is only in 10th place.
Japanese developers from GungHo Online earn the most on Google Play. All other positions are also distributed between Japanese and Korean companies. Yes, on Android DeNA, on the contrary, is ahead of GREE in earnings.
The situation with the top ten free games on the App Store is as follows: the first place in downloads is for Temple Run 2, the second is for Candy Crash Saga, and the third is for 4 Pics 1 Word. By the way, a similar project to the last one is What’s the Word? also in the top ten, but in sixth place.
The excellent performance of Infinity Blade, Galaxy on Fire 2 HD and Plants vs. Zombies should not be surprised. Each of these games became free for a week as part of Apple’s Free App of The Week program.
Temple Run 2 is in first place in downloads and on Google Play. In January, Subway Surfers took the first place, which ended up in second place in February. Fruit Ninja Free closes the top three. Among the newcomers – the already mentioned Italian Zombie Smasher and Korean 윈드러너 for Kakao. The first one rose by 383 positions in a month, the second by 417. He showed himself very well on Android as the debutant of The Simpsons: Tapped Out from EA.
So we have come to the most interesting, to the leaders of the gaming box office top. In the first place is the Japanese Puzzle & Dragons, it has been holding the lead in the chart of the most profitable games on iOS for the second month. Behind it – Clash of Clans. Candy Crash Saga closes the top three.
But, in general, as you can see, there are no drastic changes in the top. Minor changes affected only its second half: Kingdoms of Camelot and The Hobbit from Kabam pushed CSR Racing to ninth place. In addition, Slotomania – Slot Machines returned to the top.
The highest-grossing game on Google Play is also Puzzle & Dragons. Then, up to the sixth position, there are names in Korean, which, unfortunately, do not yet speak anything to a Western user. In the sixth place is the main hope King.com for world domination – Candy Crash Saga. Right behind it is LINE POP. In ninth place is the role-playing Blood Brothers from DeNA, and Anipang for Kakao closes the top ten.
Yes, a few words about Kakao. This platform is now gaining serious success in South Korea. There are as many as five games in the global box office top of Google Play that resort to its services.
