AppMagic: the most downloaded and highest-grossing mobile games of December 2022

With the support of AppMagic, the editors of App2Top have prepared a report on the most popular and highest-grossing mobile games in December.

The most downloaded games of December

The FIFA World Cup, held in Qatar from November 20 to December 18, had a strong impact on the free chart. Three football-themed games got into the top in terms of cumulative downloads at once: FIFA Mobile, Soccer Super Star and Football League 2023. Moreover, FIFA Mobile and Soccer Super Star have become leaders both in the overall top and in the top only with Android games. Below is more information about them and about other projects.

FIFA Mobile: FIFA World Cup (publisher — Electronic Arts)

The mobile version is the version of FIFA football simulators. The game was released back in 2016, but EA regularly updates it. The company released one of the major updates just on the eve of the World Cup, after which FIFA Mobile downloads began to grow rapidly. If the game was downloaded 7.7 million times in October, then 14.1 million times in November. In December, FIFA Mobile collected 23.98 million downloads.

FIFA Mobile: FIFA World Cup
The vast majority of December downloads of the football simulator were on Google Play — there were 20.6 million of them.

As for the countries, FIFA Mobile enjoyed the greatest demand in Indonesia (5.6 million downloads), Brazil (3.8 million downloads) and India (2.26 million downloads).

FIFA Mobile Download Dynamics: FIFA World CupSoccer Super Star (publisher — Real Freestyle Soccer)

Another soccer simulator, which is essentially a clone of another simulator called Score!Hero. In Soccer Super Star, the user is given the opportunity to play only in individual episodes of the match, his main task is to score the ball into the goal of the opposing team.

Soccer Super Star

Soccer Super Star appeared on Google Play in September 2020. Six months later, the game also became available in the App Store.

In December, the game was downloaded 22.1 million times. Most of the downloads were generated by Android users (19.3 million). The remaining 2.7 million downloads on iOS were enough for the game to get on the tenth line of the top most downloaded games of the month in the App Store.

Soccer Super Star Download DynamicsBike Racing: GT Spider Moto (publisher — Zego Studio)

Bike Racing is the only novelty in the chart. This is a hyper-casual variation of the runner, in which the user’s character has to overcome an obstacle course on a motorcycle. The game is almost no different from the Car Crash Compilation Game from the same publisher, which was included in the top free games in November.

Bike Racing: GT Spider Moto
Bike Racing was downloaded 16.7 million times in December.

Dynamics of Bike Racing downloads: GT Spider Moto蛋仔派对 (publisher – NetEase)

The Chinese game 蛋仔派对 became the leader of December on iOS. The project largely copies Fall Guys, only here the characters are animated eggs. Officially, the game has been released only in China so far — the release in China took place on May 25, 2022 – but it is also being prepared for release in Western countries. The exact date is not reported, but it is known that the game will be released under the name Eggy Party.

蛋仔派对
In December, 蛋仔派对 collected 8.5 million downloads in the Chinese App Store.

Download dynamics 蛋仔派对The highest-grossing games of December

The box office chart has not changed too much in a month, but it has not been completely without changes. One of these changes is Goddess of Victory: Nikke stopped topping the Android top, dropping to the seventh place in it, and disappeared from the iOS top. However, in December, the game earned a total of substantial $ 58.38 million (of which $ 30.16 million — on Google Play).

The first place in the Android top has now gone to Lineage M, whose total revenue from IAP in December was $54.9 million (of which $51.26 million was in Google Play).

The leader in the overall top was Genshin Impact, which earned a total of $164.4 million in December. The leader in the iOS top has traditionally been Honor of Kings with revenue of $162.5 million.