Here are the most-downloaded games worldwide from last month, according to Appmagic data.
The top ten is below, with Appmagic’s estimated downloads for May plus annotations that indicate each game’s month-on-month rise or fall in the rankings.
There’s also commentary on May’s most notable trends from the top 20 and beyond.
Supercent has claimed a second month on top in the downloads charts with Pizza Ready, which is down from April’s huge 25.7m total – but still almost 4m ahead of the closest contender, Roblox. Roblox is up a little month-on-month, its over 18m installs representing a pretty typical month outside of school holidays when installs tend to jump up to around 20m.
With a mighty 18m downloads in its first month, Netmarble RPG Solo Leveling: Arise is straight into third place, suggesting there’s still room for anime-style action-RPGs, even in a post Genshin and Star Rail world. It’s also stormed into the top grossing charts in its first month – more on that later.
Last month’s third-placed game, Supermarket Manager Simulator, has collapsed in terms of downloads – down from 17.5m in April to 4.8m in May.
That means several titles are bumped up one spot, including regulars Subway Surfers, Ludo King and Block Blast, all of which show pretty typical monthly downloads (though of the three, Ludo King shows the biggest rise or fall with ~2m more downloads than April).
Up eight places and into the top ten is Wood Nuts & Bolts, an Android-only puzzler from ASO king Zego Studio. The Vietnamese firm has seen its third straight month of growth for this puzzler, hitting an all-time high of 12.3m. Zego is best known for several similar-sounding racers like Car Race 3D: Car Racing.
Garena’s Free Fire is down four spots in May after leaping up the rankings in April thanks to a big content update that drove 16m installs. May’s 11m-ish downloads is about where it usually lands in a typical month.
Two Supercell games round out the top ten, with a revived Brawl Stars up a little on last month’s ~10.9m installs and newbie Squad Busters in at 10, which recorded 11.6m downloads during May. Worth nothing here that it was in soft launch in Canada, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Spain, Mexico and Singapore for most of May, and was only launched globally on May 29.
As we reported yesterday, Squad Busters hit 30m lifetime downloads five days after that global launch.
May’s top mobile game downloads worldwide 11-20
11. Free Fire MAX (Garena): 11.4m
12. Relax Mini Games (Superior Studio): 10.8m
13. Race Master 3D – Car Racing (SayGames): 10.5m
14. Wood Nuts & Bolts Puzzle (ABI Global): 10.2m
15. My Talking Tom 2 (Outfit7): 9.9m
16. Candy Crush Saga (King): 9.8m
17. Build A Queen (Supersonic): 9.7m
18. Royal Match (Dream Games): 9.3m
19. My Talking Tom Friends (Outfit7): 9.1m
20. Moto Rider, Bike Racing Game (Zego Studio): 8.7m
Free Fire Max, like sister title Free Fire, is also down a few spots this month, while Superior Studio’s hypercasual game Relax Mini Games jumps up into 12th spot, racking up about double April’s install total of 5.4m with 10.8m.
SayGames’ Race Master 3D is up four spots this month, rising from 8.9m in April to 10.5m in May, while King’s Candy Crush Saga holds steady at 16 with just under 10m installs in May (about the same total as the last four months running).
Supersonic’s Build A Queen is down eight spots month-on-month, having dipped under 10m downloads in May after several months posting around 11m monthly installs.
Royal Match is up a little on last month’s 8.4m installs, but still down significantly on the huge 19m downloads it was getting in January and February. Happily for Dream Games, revenue doesn’t seem to have been affected.
Outside the top 20, Azur Games seems to be taking on Going Balls with Rollance, and is very narrowly ahead of Supersonic’s hyper/hybridcasual hit – both games posted just over 8m downloads in May, and are in 23rd and 24th spot respectively.
Wuthering Waves topped the charts in several major markets at launch, and ended up as the 29th most downloaded game in May, with 7.6m downloads.
Finally, it’s also worth noting download declines for Scopely duo Stumble Guys and Monopoly Go. Stumble Guys saw a notable drop of 22 places in the rankings from April to May, though it’s only down month-on-month by about a million downloads to 6.9m. Meanwhile, Monopoly Go has the more dramatic drop, down to 98 in the rankings with just under 5m installs in May – way down on the 14.6m it racked up when downloads peaked in August 2023.
