Supercell’s CEO on the results of 2025: “It was almost a record year”

Supercell CEO Ilkka Paananen published the company’s traditional blog column, discussing the successes of the past year. We have highlighted the key figures.

Clash Royale

• The year 2025 was close to becoming Supercell’s best financially. It slightly fell short of the record results in 2024.
• Supercell’s annual revenue amounted to 2.65 billion euros, decreasing by 5% year-over-year.
• Meanwhile, EBITDA rose by 6% to 930 million euros. Paananen noted that when calculated in dollars (where EBITDA is 1.06 billion dollars), it’s an all-time high for Supercell.
• Clash Royale made the most significant contribution to Supercell’s income in 2025. Paananen didn’t reveal how much it earned but boasted other game metrics. For instance, he stated that the number of returning users in Clash Royale doubled, and the number of new users increased by 500%. This was due to a game overhaul, making it easier and adding new content.
• The total monthly active audience for Supercell’s games reached 290 million people.
• However, not all Supercell games performed well. Specifically, Paananen reminded that at the end of last year, the company decided to close Squad Busters. The project’s servers will be shut down within 2026;
• Supercell aims to develop a new hit. To that end, in 2025, it doubled its investment in developing new projects and plans to increase them twofold again in 2026.
• Throughout 2025, Supercell paid taxes amounting to 220 million euros in Finland. This is several times more than the previous year when Supercell paid 41 million euros in taxes.
• Currently, Supercell employs about 900 people, with a third joining the company just last year.

“The record profitability mentioned above puts us in an incredibly fortunate position. It gives us the ability to take bigger risks, to invest more aggressively in innovation, to think in decades rather than quarters. While much of the industry has pulled back, we can push forward. That’s a privilege very few companies have right now,” concluded Paananen.