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[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

According to Appmagic data, Honor of Kings is once more the top grossing game worldwide on iOS and Android – and by some distance.

Tencent’s monster MOBA earned an estimated $1.48bn in 2023, over $300m more than closest rival PUBG Mobile, which is also published by Tencent.

Genshin Impact and Candy Crush Saga swapped places this year, with King’s puzzler leapfrogging Mihoyo’s hit action-RPG, though both were down year-on-year revenue-wise. And arguably the biggest story of 2023 was the trio of new entries in the top ten: Royal Match, Honkai: Star Rail and Monopoly Go.

According to Appmagic, Tencent is of course the top grossing mobile game publisher of 2023, and is followed by NetEase and Playrix for the fourth year running.

Mihoyo and King remain in fourth and fifth, while Monopoly Go and Royal Match’s rampant success saw Scopely up 14 places to sixth and Dream Games up 22 spots to ninth.

Supercell saw one of the biggest year-on-year drops, falling from 7th place in 2022 to 11th last year.

Full analysis and commentary can be found in the two articles posted below:

The top grossing mobile games of 2023 - Mobilegamer.biz

According to Appmagic, Honor of Kings and PUBG Mobile are top again while Royal Match, Honkai: Star Rail and Monopoly Go storm into the top ten.

mobilegamer.biz

The top grossing mobile game publishers of 2023 - Mobilegamer.biz

According to Appmagic, Tencent is – of course – the top publisher of 2023, and is followed by NetEase, Playrix, Mihoyo and King. Scopely and Dream Games surged up the rankings, while Supercell dropped out of the top ten.

mobilegamer.biz

 

[Bernoulli]

why is king 1.73m ?

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

why is king 1.73m ?

Most likely a typo. Should be 1.37B.

 

[Nankatsu]

China knows what it is doing.

 

[tusharngf]

no supercell.. i thought clash royale is played by millions

 

[SmokedMeat]

I didn’t realize PUBG was still so big.

 

[twilo99]

Shame everyone has to pay Apple for selling on their platform…

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

I didn’t realize PUBG was still so big.

Mostly on mobile and in Asian countries.

 

[ReBurn]

This is the future of video games

 

[yurinka]

no supercell.. i thought clash royale is played by millions

They are top 11 in publishers, Clash of Clans top 16 in games.

I didn’t realize PUBG was still so big.

Mostly on mobile and in Asian countries.

It's the top 3 most played game in Steam (last 24h)
https://steamdb.info/charts/

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

They are top 11 in publishers, Clash of Clans top 16 in games.



It's the top 3 most played game in Steam (last 24h)
https://steamdb.info/charts/

Okay, that doesn't negate what I said. It's very popular on mobile and especially in Asian countries. Thx for the added context though.

 

[SmokedMeat]

It's the top 3 most played game in Steam (last 24h)
https://steamdb.info/charts/

I never look at those charts. I picked up PUBG back when it released, and it was such a hot game.

Then it seemed like Fortnite copied it, and ate its lunch. Glad it’s still doing well. Maybe I’ll reinstall it again, as it’s been forever since I played.

 

[Doom85]

Glad to see Honkai Star Rail doing so well. Awesome game with so much content and it respects its fans much more than Genshin Impact does.

The salt from certain Genshin fans when 5 star Dr. Ratio was announced to be free for Star Rail players as thanks due to winning Best Mobile Game at TGA was so hilarious. Don’t be mad at us and our game; be mad at your developers for not understanding what a celebration reward should actually entail.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

I didn’t realize PUBG was still so big.

It's still huge on Steam as well. People just don't talk about it anymore because the industry is geared towards the new so much.

 

[Generic]

Glad to see Honkai Star Rail doing so well. Awesome game with so much content and it respects its fans much more than Genshin Impact does.

The salt from certain Genshin fans when 5 star Dr. Ratio was announced to be free for Star Rail players as thanks due to winning Best Mobile Game at TGA was so hilarious. Don’t be mad at us and our game; be mad at your developers for not understanding what a celebration reward should actually entail.

Interesting. I will give it a look.

 

[yurinka]

Then it seemed like Fortnite copied it, and ate its lunch.

Yes, it's what happened. But as seen, PUGB continues doing it great.