Here are the top mobile game downloads from last month, according to Appmagic data.
Appmagic’s estimates do not include numbers from China’s fractured Android market. There’s commentary on August’s most notable trends from the top 20 and beyond below.
It’s a second month at the top for developer JindoBlu and its Offline Games collection, but not by much: in July it was ahead of Roblox by an incredible 13m installs, but for August it pipped the UGC platform by around 800k.
Roblox continues to ride a high from the school holidays, but it’ll likely drop off in the September charts. Subway Surfers posts its third month running at the 15m mark, and Ludo King is just as consistent in the ~15m range.
Block Blast has been steadily rising since March, but is a little way off the 16-17m peak it was hitting from December 2023 through to February 2024.
Free Fire and Free Fire Max each enjoyed spikes earlier this year thanks to some Dragonball and throwback-themed updates, and continue to rank highly in the afterglow, though they’re both fading a little.
Sandwiched between those two Garena games is Pizza Ready, which is dropping off at a faster rate. It peaked at nearly 26m downloads in April, but has dropped by a couple of million downloads each month ever since.
New to the top charts in ninth is Playspare’s My Supermarket Simulator 3D, the latest game of its ilk to gatecrash the top ten. Indonesia, Turkey, Russia, Brazil and Mexico are the top markets for this one. (The previous champ in this category, Zego Studio’s Manage Supermarket Simulator, has been pushed out to 13th spot this month after topping the charts overall in June.)
Outfit7’s quietly dependable My Talking Tom 2 sneaks back into the top ten for August, not because of any big bump in downloads but more due to other less consistent titles dropping off a little.
August’s top mobile game downloads: 11-20
11. Candy Crush Saga (King): 9.1m
12. PUBG Mobile (Tencent): 8.5m
13. Manage Supermarket Simulator (Zego Studio): 8.3m
14. Hole.io (Voodoo): 8.2m
15. Car Race 3D: Car Racing (Zego Studio): 8m
16. Schoolboy Runaway – Stealth (Linked Squad): 7.9m
17. Brain Test: Tricky Puzzles (Unico Studio): 7.8m
18. 8 Ball Pool (Miniclip): 7.7m
19. Traffic Rider (Skgames): 7.5m
20. Royal Match (Dream Games): 7.47m
The 11-20 bracket is a hodgepodge of regulars and some returning hyper/hybridcasual fare. As noted above, Manage Supermarket Manager has dropped off, but four games in this bracket have made a bit of a comeback: Hole.io is up 24 spots, Car Race 3D up 27, Brain Test up 23 places and Traffic Rider is up 16 positions in the rankings. All of these are closer to the hypercasual end of the spectrum – a symptom of the quieter summer UA or new release market, maybe?
Outside the top twenty, there’s a notable drop of 29 places for Scopely’s Stumble Guys, which has perhaps peaked on mobile, hence Scopely’s ongoing mission to release it on every format under the sun.
Tencent’s Honor of Kings saw an even more dramatic tumble down the charts, dropping 62 places to 73rd spot. That western launch doesn’t seem to have made much of a difference just yet, has it?
And wait, where’s Squad Busters? It’s down a breathtaking 318 places month-on-month to 406th spot, below Hay Day (346th place) and Clash Royale (376th place). Last week we looked at the recent update which appeared to give it a decent revenue boost; perhaps the next task for Supercell is to get more people playing it.
