Here are the most-downloaded games worldwide from last month, according to Appmagic data.
The top ten is below, with annotations that indicate each game’s month-on-month rise or fall in the rankings.
There’s also commentary below on February’s most notable trends from the top 20 and beyond.
An entirely static top four of Royal Match, Roblox, Block Blast and Subway Surfers shows us there’s been little new or interesting to excite players in the last month – though a look at the year-on-year comparisons is interesting.
In February 2023 Royal Match racked up about 8m downloads, so Dream Games has very nearly trebled its install run-rate from last year with 21.4m (It got over 22.6m in January 2024, too).
Roblox keeps Robloxing, up around 2m on last February. It’s a notably consistent performer due to that constant stream of UGC content – there are no live ops-powered spikes with this one. Block Blast‘s momentum continues too, up by around 6.6m compared to February 2023 to 17.9m.
Perennial download chart-topper Subway Surfers is holding steady too, down a little bit from the ~17m installs it got in February 2023.
Rising four spots this month is another chart stalwart, 8 Ball Pool, though it’s more because other titles around it have plateaued or declined. It’s up by about a million downloads month-on-month.
Side note: why is no-one trying to take a bite of this game’s market share? We’ve been covering the idea that ‘dad games’ are a little underserved over the last year – see these interviews with Space Ape, Hutch and Forthstar – and 8 Ball Pool has had the casual pool market sewn up for years.
Garena’s Free Fire stays in sixth despite being down ~2m installs month-on-month. It’s currently posting its best monthly install numbers since late 2021, having attracted 10-11m downloads per month for most of 2023.
Like several others, Supersonic’s Build A Queen has risen in the charts despite posting a month-on-month downloads decline, while ABI Games Studio’s Wood Nuts & Bolts Puzzle is perhaps this month’s most interesting entry in the top ten – an Android-only casual puzzler that suddenly took off in January, gathering 10.9m installs, and is up month-on-month by about a million.
Related: last month’s surprise hit Help Me: Tricky Story, an Android-only game from the very similar-sounding ABI Game Studio, has dropped from fifth to 33rd spot this month.
Ludo King is another game that’s risen up the charts this month by virtue of not declining as much as other titles – it’s down month-on-month by around 1m downloads, but up one spot in the rankings.
Candy Crush Saga returns to the top ten for the first time since August 2023, a comeback that began at the end of last year – though again, that’s more through declining less than the titles around it last month.
February’s top mobile game downloads 11-20:
11. PUBG Mobile (Tencent): 10.5m
12. Race Master 3D (SayGames): 10.4m
13. Pizza Ready! (Supercent): 9.8m
14. Eggy Party (Netease): 9.3m
15. Free Fire Max (Garena): 9.3m
16. My Talking Tom 2 (Outfit7): 9m
17. Hill Climb Racing (Fingersoft): 8.9m
18. Going Balls (Supersonic): 8.3m
19. Magic Tiles 3 (Amanotes): 8.3m
20. Moto Rider, Bike Racing Game (Zego Studio): 8.2m
PUBG Mobile is up five spots month-on-month, though downloads are about the same, while SayGames’ Race Master 3D drops five spots, down about 3m month-on-month after regularly racking up over 13m monthly installs.
Supercent has scored its third hit resource management game after Burger Please and Outlets Rush with Pizza Ready, up 17 spots and 1.6m downloads month-on-month. (Those games’ main inspiration, SayGames’ My Perfect Hotel, is down in 25th spot on 7.8m.)
Netease’s Eggy Party was launched worldwide on February 23, causing a bump in downloads up to ~9.3m for February and a rise up the charts by 39 places. As we reported yesterday, industry watchers like the game’s ambition, but are a little cooler on whether it can do well in the west. We’ll see where it ends up in next month’s charts.
Fingersoft’s Hill Climb Racing had a nice bump up the charts 22 spots, back to around the 8-9m downloads it was getting at the end of 2023 (before the game had a wobble in November and December 2023).
Zego Studio has another racing game climbing the charts, the Android-only Moto Rider, another one for Zego’s growing ASO club alongside Car Race 3D, Car Stunt 3D and Moto Stunt 3D.
And just outside the top 20 is Supercell’s Brawl Stars, which appears to be on the comeback trail. It is up 51 spots month-on-month, having generated 8.1m installs in February. It was consistently getting around 2-3m downloads every month for most of 2023, so that’s quite a leap.
