Here’s Appmagic’s top download chart for 2024. Remember, these download numbers are estimates, but are still indicative of the shape and size of things.
There’s more 2024 analysis elsewhere on the site, through the below links:
– 2024’s top grossing games
– 2024’s top publishers by downloads
– 2024’s top grossing publishers
For up-to-date rankings, you can find Appmagic’s live monthly top grossing and top downloads charts through the link.
Roblox is popular, isn’t it? It’s the top mobile game download of the year again after topping the charts in 2023 with 199m. 2024’s record 219m downloads shows that whatever controversy surrounds the platform, its appeal is undimmed – and this is just mobile downloads, of course. It’ll have many more millions across PC and console, too.
Casual puzzler Block Blast ran Roblox pretty close with 216m downloads though. It racked up 138m in 2023, but it’s still a relative newbie – it only started gaining traction in late 2022. Coming a close second to a long-time behemoth like Roblox is a mighty achievement for Hong Kong-based Hungry Studio – an outfit that only formed in 2021.
Like Roblox, it’s easy to forget how astonishingly popular Subway Surfers is. It is the third most downloaded game of 2024, and yet is down year-on-year for the second time after a wild 2022 that saw a monster ~245m installs thanks to sudden interest in China. 2023’s total of 184m and 2024’s haul of 177m represent a more typical twelve months of downloads for Sybo’s evergreen infinite runner.
If Ludo King downloads hadn’t cratered in November and December, it probably would have been ahead of Subway Surfers. But last year’s tally of 171m downloads is still a post-COVID best, up on 2023’s 160m, 2022’s 151m and 2021’s 148m.
Supercent’s Pizza Ready is easily 2024’s biggest riser, jumping up 443 places to land on 171m downloads for the year. It was released in July 2023 but only really started to get traction in early 2024, peaking in April and racking up 10-12m downloads per month from August 2024 through to the end of the year.
Garena’s two different flavours of Free Fire sit next to each other in sixth and seventh, with the ‘base’ edition ahead of the deluxe Max version, despite the latter SKU rising up the rankings 20 places year-on-year. Both are pretty steady performers who (obviously) enjoy spikes and dips at the same time, but while OG Free Fire’s lifetime installs are led by India (17%), Brazil (16%) and Indonesia (13%), Max is very, very reliant on players in India, who represent 53% of lifetime downloads. Indonesia (12%) and Vietnam (8%) are the second and third most popular markets for Max.
Offline Games maker JindoBlu appears to be just one guy – a solo dev called Moreno Maio – and therefore must be one of the smallest developers in the top 100, let alone the top ten. His classic game collection seemed to tick some ASO boxes with gusto over the summer as downloads spiked from ~5m installs in June to hit 35m+ in July. The game has tailed off a little since then, but is still comfortably 12m installs ahead of the next contender.
That game, 8 Ball Pool, continues to quietly do terrific numbers for Miniclip, though its 2024 installs were U-shaped – it was performing great through January-March, had a very flat middle part of the year, then saw huge gains again in November and December. Zoom out, though, and 8 Ball Pool downloads have been remarkably consistent for a decade.
Outfit7 also has a steady cash cow in My Talking Tom 2, which has been attracting between 8-11m downloads every month since July 2020, a very solid four and a half year spell. The same developer also has My Talking Tom Friends in 15th with 94m installs and My Talking Angela 2 in 21st place with 85m – not bad.
The top mobile game downloads of 2024: 11-20
11. Royal Match (Dream Games): 113.3m
12. Candy Crush Saga (King): 111.4m
13. Build A Queen (Supersonic): 101.8m
14. PUBG Mobile (Tencent): 101.6m
15. My Talking Tom Friends (Outfit7): 94.5m
16. Brawl Stars (Supercell): 94.47m
17. Wood Nuts & Bolts Puzzle (ABI Games Studio): 93.2m
18. Wood Screw Puzzle (iKame/Zego): 90.1m
19. Race Master 3D: Car Racing (Beresnev Games): 88.8m
20. EA Sports FC Mobile (EA): 86.8m
Dream Games’ Royal Match just about beat main rival Candy Crush Saga in 2024 by installs, but not by much. Both dropped out of the top ten for 2024.
Royal Match had an excellent start to 2024, but tailed off badly – it got over 19m downloads in January, but ‘just’ 5m in December. Candy Crush was much more consistent, racking up 8-9m downloads per month pretty much all year.
There are a couple of notable comebacks in this 11-20 bracket as well: Supersonic’s Build A Queen (102m installs) jumped up the rankings 76 places year-on-year, and Brawl Stars’ well-publicised turnaround saw it leap up 160 spots with 95m downloads in 2024.
Another neat couplet next: can you tell the difference between Wood Nuts & Bolts Puzzle (93.2m) and Wood Screw Puzzle (90.1m)? We’re not sure we can, but bravo to ABI Games and iKame/Zego for getting roughly the same downloads for roughly the same game – they are the 17th and 18th most-downloaded titles of 2024.
In 19th, Race Master’s plummeting downloads at the end of 2024 mean it could have ranked much higher had it maintained its momentum in early 2024. EA Sports FC Mobile squeaks into the top 20 after a weak start to the year, but a strong summer and autumn – likely thanks to the momentum coming out of the Euros.
Outside the top 20, Last War: Survival feels like it’s been around forever, but looking annually it’s a new entry at 28 with 80m downloads. Voodoo’s Hole.io returned in 2024, leaping up 76 places to end 2024 as the 31st most-downloaded game with 78m installs.
Monopoly Go‘s revenue appears to be fine, but downloads have dropped quite a bit. It’s down 57 places year-on-year to 68th spot with 60.5m installs for 2024, having claimed about 106m in 2023. Playrix’s Gardenscapes also saw a notable download drop year-on year, falling 65 places as it posted 52m installs in 2024, down on 2023’s 84m.
A disappointing launch for Squad Busters sees Supercell’s latest launch end 2024 with 46.8m downloads in 102nd spot. It launched to much fanfare worldwide at the end of May, but ended up just ahead of Pokémon TCG Pocket, which launched on October 30. That ended 2024 in in 105th spot with 46.2m installs, while stablemate Pokémon Go was down a little on 2023’s 40m installs with 37m for 2024.
You have to dive much deeper into the charts to find some of the year’s bigger flops: Call of Duty Warzone Mobile is down in 154th place with 37.6m downloads, having launched in March.
And spare a thought for Zynga’s Star Wars Hunters, which didn’t even get close to the top 1000 – that’s right, top one thousand – and Appmagic’s charts don’t go that deep. Hunters launched in June and ended with year with 4.9m downloads, which is under half the downloads of the 1,000th most-downloaded game of 2024, Cut The Rope, which got 10.8m installs.
