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 also commentary on November’s most notable trends from the top 20 and beyond below.
In between these monthly updates, you can also keep tabs on Appmagic’s top grossing and top downloads charts here.
Block Blast’s monthly downloads are up again month-on-month by about 2m installs and sees Hungry Studio’s block puzzler take top spot for the second month running. But the nearly 30m downloads racked up in November is some way off the 40m+ monthly downloads it was getting at its peak in March and April.
Free Fire Max has been steadily rising up the rankings for months, and hit second spot not due to any wild spike in downloads but more because other games have seen a relatively flat month – it’s actually down a little bit month-on-month to about 22.5m downloads.
Roblox is among those games seeing a decline – it’s down month-on-month for the third straight month, ending up with ~21.5m downloads for November. Pizza Ready is fractionally up month-on-month to 15.1m installs while Subway Surfers is down a little from October’s total of 15.3m to 13.8m in November.
Leaping up 28 places into November’s top ten is Gamincat’s Jigsolitaire, which after a year or so in testing suddenly started scaling up in October. It leapt from 1.3m downloads in September to about 7m installs the following month, and kept growing in November, hitting 13.2m.
It looks like a very basic rearrange-the-picture puzzler, and unusually 21% of its lifetime downloads are in the US, though India is in second with about 10% of installs to date, followed by Mexico (7%), Russia (6%) and Germany (4%).
The Japanese studio behind Jigsolitaire, Gamincat, has a couple of other catalogue puzzlers that have racked up about 20m downloads each, called ‘Fill one-line puzzle game’ and ‘1Line one-stroke puzzle game’. But those downloads all happened years ago, so it’ll be interesting to see if this game maintains its position next month – this title’s rise up the charts doesn’t follow the patterns we often see when new games arrive in the top ten.
Vita Mahjong is a more familiar prospect, and it posted a slight rise on last month’s total with just over 12.4m installs in November. After Bingchuan Network’s X-Clash made its big comeback in October with over 21.5m downloads, it’s down in November to 12m – and judging by the game’s very odd previous incarnations, it may be one of those ‘burst’ games that spikes and declines just as quickly every few years.
Overcoming what is surely one of the most boring game titles ever, Solitaire Associations Journey has leapt up into ninth spot, up 177 places month-on-month. Developer Hitapps scaled this one fast from about 600k installs in September through 3.3m in October up to 11m downloads in November. Like Jigsolitaire, it looks pretty basic and most of its downloads are from the US – 35% of all installs in the last 30 days, in fact. Germany (11%), France (9%) Mexico (5%) and Japan (4%) complete this game’s top five markets.
In tenth, Supercell’s Clash Royale is down by about 2m installs on October’s total with 10.4m downloads for November. That’s still significantly up on the 2-2.5m downloads it was getting before Supercell started spending big on UA, though.
November’s top mobile game downloads: 11-20
11. Ludo King (Gametion): 9.7m
12. Paper.io 2 (Voodoo): 9.6m
13. Block Crazy Robo World Craft (Prokids Studio): 8.73m
14. My Talking Tom 2 (Outfit7): 8.71m
15. Tile Explorer (Learnings): 8.7m
16. 8 Ball Pool (Miniclip): 8.6m
17. PUBG Mobile (Tencent): 8.5m
18. FPS Strike Ops: Modern Arena (FPS Shooter & Action Game): 8.3m
19. Candy Crush Saga (King): 8.1m
20. EA Sports FC Mobile (EA): 7.8m
Outside the top ten and beyond, there are notable rises for yet another Minecraft-y Android game Block Crazy Robo Craft World which is up 10 spots month-on-month, and Supercent’s Snake Clash is up 13 places to number 22 with 7.3m downloads in November.
Funfly’s Last War: Survival, a fixture in the top grossing charts but rarely a feature in the top downloads list, is also up significantly – rising 26 places month-on-month to 25th place with 7m installs in November.
Sliding down the rankings month-on-month are Tile Explorer (down five places to 15th), EA Sports FC Mobile (down six spots to 20th), Tile Club (down 16 places to 34th) and Hole.io (down 24 spots to 37th place).
