The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2024

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• Fortnite
• Fall Guys

Epic Games topped this list back in 2018, hot off the success of Fortnite. We called it “revolutionary”, shattering beliefs about what makes a good or bad mobile game, and popularising the now standard season pass.

Not content with $1.2 billion in mobile earnings, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney began his crusade against Apple and Google’s 30% cut in 2020, which saw Fortnite summarily removed from stores.

Epic’s efforts have been influential in shaking up the mobile market. Fortnite has finally returned to iOS in the EU through its own Epic Games Store (which it hopes will rival the App Store and Google Play for games) and AltStore PAL. Even Fall Guys has finally come to mobile! Who knows how much money they really make on mobile right now – the real point is that Epic is back, and it will likely only get stronger from here.

ASSOCIATED COMPANIES

Mediatonic

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• LEGO Hill Climb Adventures
• Hill Climb Racing 2
• Hill Climb Racing+
• Hill Climb Racing

A game with the legacy of Hill Climb Racing needs little introduction, but here’s one anyway. Combining physics-based gameplay with mechanics so intuitive and fun, the franchise is still going strong 12 years later, with over 2 billion installs to boot.

Fingersoft hasn’t rested on its laurels and instead built the title into a brand, which includes a sequel and Hill Climb Racing+ on Apple Arcade.

This year it even partnered with LEGO for its latest release, which goes beyond a brick-based layer of paint and infuses the tried-and-tested formula with LEGO-like innovations – such as building new car parts out of bricks and vehicles shattering to pieces upon an unintended impact.

Finnish studios Rovio and Supercell often take the spotlight, yet Oulu-headquartered Fingersoft remains one of the country’s top gaming exports.

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• Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery
• Disney Emoji Blitz
• DC Heroes & Villains
• Cookie Jam
• Jurassic World Alive

While remaining one of the world’s top grossing mobile games publishers, Jam City has fallen on tough times. Layoffs, the failure of DC Heroes & Villains to take off, and declining revenue from some of its once top games have left the publisher looking for where its next hit might come from to turn the ship around – and fire it back to its long-held ambition of going public.

There are some bright sparks. Disney Emoji Blitz has maintained steady performance, while Jam City launched a major update for Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery in the shape of Beyond Hogwarts. That latter title crossed $500 million in revenue this year, according to Sensor Tower, and it received an Honourable Mention in the Best Storytelling category at the Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards this year. The publisher has the talent. Now it needs a new hit.

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Ludia

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• Love Island: The Game
• Kiddopia
• Animal Jam
• World Cricket Championship 3

India’s first publicly traded games company, Nazara Technologies, isn’t short of ambition. Founder, CEO and joint MD Nitish Mittersain – this year’s Mobile Legend at the Mobile Games Awards – told us that he’s eyeing a $10bn valuation in the next five years.

Earlier this year it earmarked $100m for M&A, and it’s wasted no time in spending it. It has completed the acquisition of Kiddopia developer Paper Boat Apps, bought US games content platform Deltias Gaming, and purchased the remaining stake in marketing agency Freaks 4U. Meanwhile, it already owns WildWorks and and a majority stake in Nodwin Gaming.

But that’s not all. In August it spent $27.2m on Love Island: The Game UK developer Fusebox Games. And it’s ramped up its publishing operations. It’s a busy period for this ambitious company, more than earning its place on this list.

ASSOCIATED COMPANIES

Fusebox
Paper Boat Apps
Nodwin Gaming
Wildworks

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• Project Makeover
• Matchington Mansion
• Wordscapes
• Final Fantasy XV: War for Eos
• Clockmaker

While best known for its ads business, which is in rude health as a market leader, AppLovin isn’t short of a few development studios. Its portfolio includes Lion Studios, Magic Tavern, Belka Games, Machine Zone, Athena Studio, Clipwire Games and others.

Its flagship games cover a variety of genres, though largely in the casual space, from match-3 games Project Makeover, Matchington Mansion and Clockmaker to Cooking Madness and Worscapes. It also owns Machine Zone, most famous for Mobile Strike and Game of War, which released Final Fantasy XV: War for Eos in 2022 and currently has new RPG Veilrunner: Arcane Frontiers in soft launch.

This year has seen AppLovin go from strength to strength. Q2 financials show that the company reached $1.08 billion in revenue, up 44% Y/Y. Its apps business alone grew 7% Y/Y to $369m.

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Lion Studios
Magic Tavern
Machine Zone
Belka Games
Clipwire Games
Athena Studio

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• Merge Mansion

Metacore has long been a leader in the merge space, though Magmatic Games and MicroFun are aiming to steal that thunder.

It may not be on top, but Merge Mansion continues to be a heavyweight in the subgenre. Metacore has managed to keep Merge Mansion at the heart of the studio and has continued to innovate and improve on the gaming experience for its loyal player base. In August, it announced the title had reached 55 million downloads and delivered $500m in lifetime revenue.

While the team is working to grow Merge Mansion further, Metacore stated earlier this year that it didn’t intend on being a “one-hit wonder”, and it has multiple new games in development. As it expands, it has opened a brand new Berlin studio and acquired animation studio Piñata, the team behind some of Metacore’s fantastic marketing campaigns.

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• SpongeBob Adventures: In A Jam
• Cypher 007
• Vikings: Valhalla
• Warhammer: Chaos & Conquest

Releasing games on the App Store and Google Play, as well as subscription services Netflix and Apple Arcade, Tilting Point is entrusted by a host of well-known brands and IPs.

Last year it launched Netflix-exclusive, Vikings: Valhalla and James Bond title Cypher 007 on Apple Arcade. Elsewhere, its portfolio includes photorealistic FashionVerse, upcoming Avatar Legends: Realms Collide, and the soft-launched Godzilla x Kong: Titan Chasers. Meanwhile, the delightful SpongeBob Adventures: In A Jam won this year’s Mobile Games Awards People’s Choice.

Through its acquisition of Budge Studios in 2022, it’s also tapped IPs including Barbie, Hello Kitty and last year’s Bluey: Let’s Play!

The publisher has also been quick to embrace the world of web shops, with Warhammer: Chaos & Conquest making half of all its revenue from its off-store marketplace.

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Budge Studios

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• Huuuge Casino
• Billionaire Casino
• Traffic Puzzle

Huuuge Games once again makes it into the Top 50 following record-high profits in 2023, led by the company’s flagships Huuuge Casino and Billionaire Casino, which have now surpassed $2 billion in lifetime revenue.

This year, however, Huuuge reported in its Q2 financials that revenue decreased 8.4% Y/Y to $63.4 million, while net income declined 30.6% Y/Y to $15.1 million. But the company has a plan. It claims it has maintained “significantly higher UA spend” compared to 2023, which it believes will pay back in the upcoming quarters and years.

In an effort to boost profitability, Huuuge has seen its direct-to-consumer strategy bear fruit, with off-store revenue amounting to 12% of total sales in Q2, up 108% Y/Y.

M&A is in the company’s future, with a cash balance of $110m. And as it hunts for new hits, it’s already invested in Empire Games.

ASSOCIATED COMPANIES

Empire Games

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• Angry Birds 2
• Angry Birds Dream Blast
• Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage!
• Angry Birds Journey
• Sonic Rumble

One of 2023’s most significant acquisitions was Sega’s purchase of Rovio for a massive $775 million, pipping other suitor Playtika to the post. Sega and Rovio seemed like the perfect fit – the two businesses complement each other with distinct skills, tech and expertise, while housing two stellar, global IPs in Angry Birds and Sonic The Hedgehog.

The crossovers in Angry Birds 2 and Sonic Forces have already begun, while new party game Sonic Rumble will be the first full game launch between the two, set for a winter release. In future, we could see further IP collaborations with more of Sega’s storied IP, and Rovio’s VP of strategy and investor relations Timo Rahkonen previously told PocketGamer.biz the studio has plans to take Angry Birds beyond mobile, too.

Meanwhile, Rovio has announced The Angry Birds Movie 3, extending the company’s part in the games-to-film transmedia craze.

ASSOCIATED COMPANIES

SEGA

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• Netflix Stories: Love is Blind
• Netflix Stories: Emily in Paris
• Oxenfree 2: Lost Signals
• Stranger Things: 1984
• Tomb Raider Reloaded

While subscription models are still finding their place within our market, Netflix Games remains dedicated to the cause.

Though it’s not been without bumps, not least a shakeup in leadership of its games division. The company has assured that games remains a “long-term bet”, and claims to have met or exceeded aggressive growth targets while tripling engagement last year.

It’s previously acquired developers Next Games, Spry Fox and Boss Fight, and one strategy coming to fruition is its investment in interactive fiction with Netflix Stories, which taps its hit TV shows (Love is Blind, Emily in Paris) to provide extra engagement for current audiences, and even entice new fans.

It has also secured the much-anticipated Monument Valley 3, set for a December release.

nd with that push into MENA, the platform has launched in Arabic, too.

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Bossfight
SpryFox
Night School Studios
Next Games

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• Draw it
• Text Express: Word Adventure
• Object Hunt
• Teacher Simulator
• Airport Security
• Blade Forge 3D 

With over 1 billion downloads, Kwalee maintains a solid mobile presence. But like other hypercasual hitmakers, it’s had to shake up its business, moving into the hybridcasual space. In early 2024 it invested €1.5 million in French hybridcasual specialist 8SEC, which boasts more than 50m downloads.

In fact, it’s even stepping into full-on casual after partnering with Story Giant Games for Text Express: Word Adventure. And the outfit is also venturing further into PC and console markets.

This year has also seen an equity investment in Devolver Digital, and Kwalee has shown a rising interest in exploring other regions, with a focus on expanding into the growing MENA region.

Furthermore, it’s broadening its new publishing platform Hitseeker. And with that push into MENA, the platform has launched in Arabic, too.

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8SEC

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• Goddess of Victory: Nikke
• Destiny Child

Since surpassing $750 million in gross revenue by AppMagic estimates, Goddess of Victory: Nikke has propelled Shift Up to a $2.5 billion valuation this summer. The mobile and PC smash-hit has been deep in the swathes of crossover events in recent months, from Evangelion characters appearing in-game to a full-on recreation of Dave the Diver delivering its “biggest mini-game ever”.

Still just shy of two years old, Goddess of Victory has plenty of victories to its name, landing among the biggest gachas on mobile and carving out a niche with unique gameplay as an over-the-shoulder shooter. With Tencent for a distributor, chances are that success will continue.

Then, of course, 2024 has seen Shift Up expand its catalogue with the PS5-exclusive Stellar Blade, showcasing its ability to develop action-packed, anime-esque hits across platforms.

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• June’s Journey
• Bingo Blitz
• Slotomania
• Solitaire Grand Harvest
• Best Fiends

At the start of 2023, Playtika made a ‘shock’ announcement that it wouldn’t be launching new titles until market conditions changed. Though, one could argue, how often does it really release new games anyway? Playtika’s greatest asset is making the most out of existing titles – which was its plan for the failed Rovio acquisition.

Still, it was a good job in 2023 that June’s Journey developer Wooga had its best year ever. That success carried on into 2024, thanks to excellent live ops for its flagship title (a Best Marketing / PR Team win at this year’s Mobile Games Awards).

Profits at Playtika surged by 14.4% Y/Y in Q2 2024 to $86.6 million, spurred by the company’s direct-to-consumer strategy. Meanwhile, the publisher is now confident enough to launch a new game – the high-performing Wooga is set to release Clare’s Chronicles in Q2 2025.

ASSOCIATED COMPANIES

Wooga

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• Jackpot Party Casino
• Quick Hit Slots
• Gold Fish Casino
• 88 Fortunes

SciPlay has become one of the world’s premier casino games developers for mobile. In 2023, it reached its 11th year of consecutive growth, with each of its highest grossing games – Jackpot Party Casino, Quick Hit Slots, Gold Fish Casino and 88 Fortunes – hitting record revenue.

And not to be dampened by wider industry turmoil, SciPlay has maintained these levels during 2024. AppMagic data shows that Jackpot Party Casino has been the number one slots game by player spending in the US since Q4 2021.

Its success and consistency led to Best Publisher and Best Live Ops Honourable Mentions at this year’s Mobile Games Awards. It’s no wonder, then, that gambling firm Light & Wonder saw fit to splash the cash on SciPlay, completing its acquisition of the firm in October 2023.

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• Warhammer 40,000: Tacticus
• F1 Clash

Modern Times Group has steadily built up its games empire, acquiring strategy specialist InnoGames, racing genre expert Hutch, word games studio PlaySimple, and tower defence studio Ninja Kiwi. Earlier this year, it sold Kongreate to Monumental, while taking a 30% stake in the company.

In October 2023, it announced the acquisition of a 70% stake in Snowprint Studios – a deal timed to perfection. Always a talented team with great games (Rivengard, Legend of Solgard), Snowprint’s Warhammer 40,000: Tacticus is by far its most successful title yet, leading the studio to Best Live Ops and Best Developer nominations at the Mobile Games Awards. It also helped MTG boost Q2 strategy and simulation revenue by 20% Y/Y.

Hutch, meanwhile, has been given the keys to the Forza and NASCAR franchises, with a view to unlocking a new level of success for the studio.

ASSOCIATED COMPANIES

Snowprint Studios
InnoGames
Ninja Kiwi
PlaySimple
Hutch

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• CookieRun: Kingdom
• CookieRun: Tower of Adventures
• CookieRun: OvenBreak
• CookieRun: Witch’s Castle

With well over a decade’s experience in mobile, South Korean star Devsisters has used its time wisely in developing a global brand around CookieRun.

Over the last 12 years, its games have been collectively downloaded 150 million times across its main franchise and beyond. Starting out with the hit endless runner OvenBreak, the studio later broke new ground with CookieRun: Kingdom, turning the title into a team-based RPG battler and earning $548m in gross revenue to date, according to AppMagic.

The studio has launched two new CookieRun games this year alone, Witch’s Castle and Tower of Adventures, which being puzzle and action-adventure titles also tackle different genres to their progenitor. This demonstrates a willingness from Devsisters to explore new genres and broaden the franchise, with successful results.

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• Stack Ball
• WormsZone.io
• Bottle Jump 3D
• Hit Master 3D: Knife Assassin
• Colour Adventure: Draw & Go

Azur Games is new to the Top 50 list though perhaps it should be no surprise to see the developer and publisher here. With 150+ games launched and over 8 billion installs across its portfolio, it’s the world’s number one mobile games company by downloads. So far this year, it’s the first publisher to break 1 billion installs on the App Store and Google Play globally, according to AppMagic.

Azur’s portfolio is not just about hypercasual titles. While games like WormsZone.io and Stack Ball have amassed over 500m and 450m installs, respectively, the company also caters to a broader audience with its midcore releases.

Outside of its development and publishing efforts, Azur Games has also recently expanded into new territory with the launch of Azur iGaming, which aims to tap into the real-money gaming market.

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• Sky Roller: Rainbow Skating
• Merge Master
• Attack Hole
• Fight For America
• Kingland

In just six years, Homa has raised $165 million and grown its team to over 250. In that time, its portfolio has also amassed 1.8b lifetime downloads, spurred by top titles like Sky Roller, Merge Master and Attack Hole.

Like other hypercasual publishers, Homa has expanded into hybridcasual. Its title Fight For America, developed with Hitica, saw a 60% increase in revenue in December 2023 vs September thanks to key updates to gameplay and monetisation. Its partnership with Tornado Bear, meanwhile, has seen recent release Kingland off to a positive start. Elsewhere, Homa has also expanded its games onto consoles.

A successful portfolio, a growing team, multi- genre and platform developments has seen Homa named one of the French Tech 120’s most successful national startups, and also cemented its position on this list.

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• My Perfect Hotel
• Squad Alpha
• Dreamdale
• Tower War
• My Little Universe

The common theme of the hypercasual games publishers in this list is they’ve all moved from the genre that made them famous on to hybridcasual. For SayGames, that meant shifting its focus away from a business that AppMagic estimates has generated 5.8 billion downloads – thanks to titles such as Sand Balls, Johnny Trigger, Race Master 3D and the DOP (Delete One Part) series.

SayGames found two perfect games for its shift to hybridcasual: arcade idle titles Dreamdale and My Perfect Hotel. But it hasn’t stopped there. Other titles earning IAP revenue include its top grosser to date, Squad Alpha, supported by Black Deck, Tower War and My Little Universe. They’ve led to SayGames’ most lucrative year yet when it comes to IAPs, all while showing it can find hits across genres – from arcade idle to card battlers, strategy games and shooters.

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• Survivor.io
• Archero
• Souls
• PunBall
• SSSnaker

Ever since the original hybridcasual hit Archero took Habby from a $1 million enterprise to a $181 million business in a single year, it’s become a goliath in a genre it arguably created.

Lightning struck twice with Survivor.io, proving even more successful and finally offering evidence that hybridcasual was a real, repeatable business model. Indeed, Habby has launched other successful titles, including SSSnaker and PunBall in recent years. That was good news for hypercasual publishers desperately searching for a lifeline following Apple’s privacy changes that upended the entire category (as well as the rest of the industry).

Last year, Habby tackled the midcore genre with idle RPG Souls. It may not have hit the highs of Archero and Survivor.io, but in just one year it picked up $64m from gross player spending.

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• Marvel Snap

The collectible card game based on everyone’s favourite superheroes (sorry DC) has a string of awards under its belt, capped off by an estimated $267m+ in gross revenue on mobile to date. The title has also now seen a full launch on PC, as of August 2023.

Second Dinner was rocked by the news late last year that ByteDance was pulling back from games – and pulling the plug on Nuverse. But a studio with one of mobile’s best games wasn’t going to slip away quietly. At the start of 2024, it raised $100m, led by VC firm Griffin Gaming Partners. Most of the team is focused on Marvel Snap, but the studio’s also working on new projects, including its own original IP.

Second Dinner even turned investor itself this year, forming a strategic partnership with W4 Games and announcing its intention to build a new title on game engine Godot.

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• EA Sports FC Mobile
• Golf Clash
• Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes
• Design Home
• Plants vs. Zombies 3

Let’s face it: EA’s $2.1 billion acquisition of Glu Mobile has been a trainwreck. The lucrative MLB Tap Sports Baseball franchise has ended, while the famous Kim Kardashian: Hollywood has closed, leaving Design Home as one of the remaining main money spinners.

EA has seemingly changed strategy since that purchase. Instead, the publisher is focusing on its owned IP. That plan is bearing fruit. EA Sports FC Mobile achieved record net bookings in Q1 FY2025. The company is so bullish on its progress that it’s called the title the ‘blueprint’ for EA’s mobile strategy going forward – which is to say, growing its “largest franchises”.

Elsewhere, Golf Clash and SimCity Buildit remain steady earners for EA, while it has soft-launched the hotly anticipated Plants vs. Zombies 3.

EA Sports FC Mobile improvements helped keep EA in this list, but there’s a lot of work left to do.

ASSOCIATED COMPANIES

Glu Mobile
Playdemic
Pop Cap Games

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• PUBG Mobile
• Battlegrounds Mobile India
• Dark and Darker Mobile
• New State Mobile

Krafton is of course best known for PUBG Mobile, developed and published in collaboration with Tencent. The title has become one of the best performing games of all time, racking up over $12 billion across the App Store and Google Play alone – not including third-party Android stores.

PUBG Mobile used to be a big hit in India, until its ban. Enter Battlegrounds Mobile India, a localised version operated by Krafton… which then also faced a ban. However, it finally returned to India’s market in May 2023, and has quickly found huge success – generating a cool $130 million to date in the country. In Krafton’s Q2 financials, mobile accounted for around two-thirds of the company’s overall revenue.

Away from PUBG, Krafton is working on its next big launch: the hotly anticipated Dark and Darker Mobile, for which it has high expectations.

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• Dragon Ball Z Dokkan Battle
• Dragon Ball Legends
• Gakuen Idolmaster

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Bandai Namco is one of the industry’s masters when it comes to live ops.

Its billion-dollar Dragon Ball Z Dokkan Battle and Dragon Ball Legends titles are shining examples of how to run events, conduct anniversaries, and introduce new characters, regularly resulting in sharp spikes in revenue and engagement. Launched in 2015 and 2018, those titles have retained remarkable consistency, ranking as two of the world’s most lucrative mobile games.

This year saw Gakuen Idolmaster launch in Japan, which is closing in on $100m revenue, according to AppMagic – with Sensor Tower estimating the game accounted for 40% of Bandai Namco’s domestic mobile revenue during its debut month, cementing its position as the publisher’s next big hit. And on the horizon? It’s currently testing Dragon Ball Project: Multi, for a 2025 launch.

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• Dice Dreams
• Domino Dreams

Superplay is exactly what this year’s Top 50 list is all about: launching a successful new game and growing live titles.

We spoke to the team earlier this year about the success of Dice Dreams, and how it’s steadily turned the game, first released in October 2019, into a sleeper hit that’s taken more than $450 million in gross player spending, according to AppMagic estimates.

Meanwhile, its other title, Domino Dreams, has consistently been on the rise since its launch at the start of 2023, showing the developer knows how to follow up one success with another hit, extending the Dreams concept into a full-fledged mobile franchise.

Looking to the future, Superplay’s co-founder Elad Drory previously told PocketGamer.biz the outfit has plans to expand its headcount and that it’s at work on new projects, too.

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• Solo Leveling: Arise
• Marvel Contest of Champions
• Jackpot World
• Lotsa Slots
• Cash Frenzy

After years in the red, South Korea’s publishing giant Netmarble turned a profit again in Q2. It’s no small feat when you consider the company struck a $717m loss in 2022, with troubles continuing into 2023.

Q2 marked the launch of action RPG Solo Levelling: Arise, its biggest release since Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds back in 2021. According to Sensor Tower, Solo Leveling passed $100m in gross revenue just three months after launch. In fact, in its Q2 financials, Netmarble said the game contributed 20% of its earnings during the quarter. Its other top titles include Marvel Contest of Champions and its casino portfolio – picked up from its acquisition of SpinX – made up of Jackpot World, Lotsa Slots and Crash Frenzy.

As Netmarble looks to get back to its best, new releases on the horizon include King Arthur: Legends Rise, RF Online Next and Demis Re:Born.

ASSOCIATED COMPANIES

SpinX Games

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• Woodoku
• Triple Tile
• Solitaire
• Get Color

Tripledot Studios is another of those developers that, without constantly hitting the headlines, has quietly become one of the UK’s most successful games companies.

In 2022 it picked up the Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50 Award for its rapid growth, while it again earned recognition from the Financial Times as the fastest growing company in Europe in 2023. In 2024, some of its leaders were named in the Sunday Times’s games-focused Rich List.

The developer, which has titles like Woodoku and Triple Tile in its portfolio, is shaping up for a stellar year. It’s hit record player spending, according to AppMagic, while also expanding its business with the acquisition of 55-person Get Color developer Zephyr Mobile. The studio claims its titles have reached more than 100 million people, and adds another string to the bow of Tripledot’s growth story.

ASSOCIATED COMPANIES

Zephyr Mobile

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• Subway Surfers
• 8 Ball Pool
• Ultimate Golf
• Golf Battle
• Subway Surfers City

Miniclip is one of the unsung superstars of the games industry. 8 Ball Pool keeps raking in millions, while Golf Battle and Ultimate Golf also continue to perform.

One of its biggest gems is, of course, Sybo Games’s Subway Surfers. It acquired the studio in June 2022, and the famous endless runner hasn’t stopped. After 12 years, it still maintains its audience, boasting 150 million monthly players.

However, the studio also still supports other games within the franchise with Subway Surfers Blast, Match, and Tag, and it even stealth-dropped Subway Surfers City earlier this year.

Meanwhile, Miniclip continues its M&A strategy – including the purchase of PC/console developer FuturLab, creator of Power Wash Simulator. With its origins in web, Miniclip has continued to adapt to industry shifts throughout its lifetime, always seeking to evolve with the sector, not against it.

ASSOCIATED COMPANIES

SYBO Games
FuturLab

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• Gossip Harbor
• Seaside Escape
• Merge County
• Merge Fables
• Jellipop Match

It appeared the merge games genre had been all but wrapped up by Gram Games’s Merge Dragons and Metacore’s Merge Mansion. But along comes Microfun with not one but two new merge titles that have steadily scaled over the past couple of years to make the developer the market leader in the category.

Seaside Escape and Gossip Harbor are now two of the biggest players in this space, generating $15.6m and $22.7m in gross revenue during August 2024, respectively, AppMagic estimates. The studio has other steady successes in the genre, too, with Merge County and Merge Fables. Not resting on its laurels, it’s also testing other themes, including latest title, Skyline Secrets.

Microfun seems to have found the blueprint for merge game success, which it’s evidently able to repeat at will to make it one of 2024’s breakout stars and top developers in the world.

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• Legend of Mushroom
• Miracle Sword
• Dragon Trail 2

Seemingly out of nowhere, Joy Nice Games (also known as Joy Net Games), launched Legend of Mushroom in November 2023, achieving instant success – particularly in Japan and South Korea.

The idle RPG centres around a small mushroom embarking on an adventure to become human. Naturally. The game features charming visuals and polished idle gameplay that has proven a hit with players. It all comes together to make one of the hottest new game releases of the past year. In fact, since August 2023, it’s the second highest grossing new release behind Nexon’s Dungeon & Fighter Mobile – which leverages an established IP already proven to generate billions of dollars.

Joy Nice Games has released successful RPGs in the past, including Miracle Sword and Dragon Trail 2, but Legend of Mushroom looks on track to become the studio’s best title yet.

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• Chrome Valley Customs
• Beatstar
• Country Star
• Transformers: Earth Wars
• Fastlane: Road to Revenge 

Space Ape Games, backed by Supercell, is on a roll. Its popular music game Beatstar – and its country music-focused spinoff Country Star – are still finding an audience. But the new star comes in the shape of match-3 game Chrome Valley Customs.

According to AppMagic estimates, the title has surpassed $56 million from player spending to date. In fact, it’s been the number one new match-3 game by revenue from launch, with no other release in its category surpassing it since. An impressive feat for a new entrant in a highly competitive genre.

The team working on the game has grown from 50 to 90, making it the largest the studio has managed, demonstrating a dedicated push for the game alongside inspired marketing efforts such as bringing in rapper and host of Pimp My Ride, Xzibit.

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• Sea of Conquest
• State of Survival: Zombie War
• Frost & Flame: King of Avalon
• Guns of Glory: Lost Island
• Stormshot: Isle of Adventure

FunPlus is one of the kings of 4X strategy games. Kicking off with a billion-dollar hit in fantasy medieval hit King of Avalon, which last year surpassed 100 million installs.

It followed that up with Guns of Glory a year later, and a further two years on, it launched its most successful game yet: State of Survival: Zombie War. The latter is estimated to have accumulated $2.36 billion in gross revenue from the App Store and Google Play.

Like many other developers, FunPlus is in search of its next big hit. At the start of 2022, it released latest effort Sea of Conquest: Pirate War. The title has a variety of gameplay features, from sailing the high seas in a story-driven adventure to ship-to-ship battles and pirate-to-pirate combat. It’s not a wild new billion-dollar blockbuster, but it’s a bold attempt that’s accumulated over $75 million to date.

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• Gardenscapes
• Homescapes
• Township
• Fishdom
• Mystery Matters

Playrix is the apex predator of narrative-driven, match-3, and renovate games thanks to its billion-dollar hits Gardenscapes and Homescapes. Meanwhile, the lesser-known but still highly successful Township and Fishdom continue to be big players.

During the first eight months of 2024, AppMagic estimates show that Playrix generated $1.57 billion in gross revenue ($1.1bn net) worldwide from the App Store and Google Play. That’s less than the same period in 2023, but still marks the publisher as one of the world’s best. That’s probably why The Sunday Times games-focused Rich List this year noted its founders had an estimated £12.5 billion fortune.

Few companies have been able to match Playrix in maintaining such high performance during a challenging time for the industry, a down market that has spared few prisoners.

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• Pokémon Go
• Monster Hunter Now
• Pikmin Bloom
• Peridot

Last year, Niantic announced it would be laying off 230 staff. The studio faced falling revenue from flagship title Pokémon Go and failed attempts at new location-based AR games like NBA All-World and Marvel World.

Pokémon Go hasn’t quite recovered, yet at the time of writing it’s still the world’s 13th highest grossing mobile game in 2024. But where Niantic has excelled over the past year is with the launch of Monster Hunter Now. In just under 12 months, it’s generated more than $222 million globally from player spending, AppMagic estimates. Finally, Niantic has found another hit game.

It may also be surprising to note that Pikmin Bloom, launched at the backend of 2021, is having its best year to date. The innovations there and another hit in Monster Hunter Now could be the blueprint for how the developer moves forward. Or is it just a flash in the pan?

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• Wuthering Waves
• Punishing: Gray Raven

Open-world action-RPG Wuthering Waves could have withered away. A forgotten failure. The backstory to Kuro’s hit title is as fascinating as its success post-launch.

The studio, which previously worked on Punishing: Gray Raven, went all in on Wuthering Waves, which shares similarities with other open-world RPGs like Genshin Impact – an immensely tough genre.

After the first closed beta, 90% of the story got rewritten – with necessary changes to elements like cinematics and quests. And the developer only had a small timeframe to do it.

Was it worth it? Over $100m later, Wuthering Waves has a vibrant community and is Kuro Games’s flagship game. And the most important aspect? It’s a fantastic gameplay experience. It’s no wonder it’s since emerged as a Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards 2024 winner.

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• Eggy Party
• Identity V
• Once Human
• Blood Strike
• Knives Out

NetEase is no stranger to the Top 50 list, previously holding 1st and 3rd positions due to its strong catalogue of games, diverse list of services, and global reach.

This year, NetEase has seen continued success from titles such as the UGC-focused Eggy Party, which reached an audience of over 500 million players in under two years, and its first-person shooter, Blood Strike, which surpassed 50m installs in less than 12 months.

But, as with most companies in the industry, NetEase has also faced some challenges, with the closure of Ouka Studios and a shift in its strategy for investing in the Japanese market –where it had huge success with Knives Out. Overall, this year has been a slower affair for the technology giant while it searches for its next big hit. But with games like Marvel’s Rivals on the horizon, big things could still be yet to come.

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• AFK Journey
• AFK Arena
• Rise of Kingdoms
• Warpath: Ace Shooter
• Call of Dragons

Compared to other companies on this list, Lilith Games flies under the radar somewhat. But don’t be fooled – it’s one of the best mobile developers in the world.

It’s a specialist in the strategy genre, with its flagship game Rise of Kingdoms a particular standout, generating billions of dollars and finding success across the globe. Meanwhile, Warpath still maintains steady performance, picking up more than $100 million in 2023.

And it’s successful across genres, too. AFK Arena is its other billion-dollar smash hit, followed up earlier this year by idle RPG AFK Journey. It’s early days, but the title oozes polish and has already bagged $140m – its August debut in China has set the game off like a rocket ship. It’s not always a hit-maker, but few other studios are willing to experiment across genres like Lilith, and fewer still can find successes doing so.

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• Last War: Survival

You’ve all seen ads, with players running through gates with upgraded weapons and unit multipliers. And admit it, you can’t take your eyes off them, especially when you see it played so terribly.

Well, Last War: Survival turns that into the core gameplay – naturally combined with 4X strategy. Fusing a hypercasual gameplay style with harcore strategy is something we’ve seen before, but developer FirstFun has perfected it.

Launched in 2023, Last War is already closing in on its first $1 billion from the App Store and Google Play. And just when it looked like the game might be hitting the height of its revenue-making powers, it generated $146 million in August – its best month yet.

A fresh Top 50 entry, deserving of its placing. New game in a tough market? Tick. One of the most successful mobile games ever? Another tick.

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• Coin Master
• Travel Town
• Family Island
• Zen Match

Moon Active is, of course, most known for social casino game Coin Master, the multi-billion dollar hit that continues to bring in the cash. It’ll also be known, as if playing down its own success as one of the most lucrative mobile games ever, as the inspiration and foundation for Scopely’s Monopoly GO!, which generated $3 billion in just a year.

But away from its flagship game, Moon Active’s other dealings have been quiet yet astute. Magmatic’s merge title Travel Town has become the top grossing merge game this year so far, according to AppMagic. Meanwhile, Melsoft Games’s Family Island is one of the world’s top farming and simulation games. Moon Active’s Zen Match, acquired from Good Job Games back in 2022, is also one of the top games in its genre.

You know it for Coin Master, but Moon Active has quietly become a powerhouse across genres.

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• Roblox

Games with a focus on user-generated content have been picking up steam over the years. That hasn’t changed in 2024, and one of the titles leading the charge is Roblox.

Revenue is on the up, with Q2 financials showing it surpassed $894 million for the quarter. Daily active users increased 21% to 79.5m year-over-year also in Q2, with many of the platform’s games generating over 1 million DAUs.

The Roblox team has been busy beefing up its offerings over the past year, including new ad placements and cross-media promotions which attract global brands. 2024 saw the introduction of real-life commerce, with heavyweights such as Walmart taking full advantage. Couple that with a highly engaged audience – one which is increasingly getting older – that continues to create experiences, and it’s clear Roblox is showing no signs of slowing down anytime soon.

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• Mob Control
• Block Jam 3D
• Collect Em All! Clear the Dots

Hypercasual is dead – or on life support – depending on who you believe. The solution? Hybridcasual. Coined after Habby’s hugely successful Archero title, which blended the spirit of the simple mechanics and fun of hypercasual with an extra layer of progression and in-app purchases, alongside ads, the business model was self-proclaimed as the lifeline for hypercasual publishers.

Willing the ‘genre’ into existence – they’ve been proven right. Perhaps none more so than Voodoo. The publisher was one of the market leaders of the hypercasual space, releasing titles like Helix Jump, aquapark.io and Paper.io 2, which racked up hundreds of millions of downloads. Voodoo attracted $200 million in investment from Goldman Sachs, before Tencent picked up a minority stake in the company in 2020.

The publisher has always been recognised as a master of the mobile arts. What could have been a decisive few years that put the company in steep decline following App Store privacy changes, Voodoo has instead transformed itself with a hyper successful new games business. It even has a growing apps division with social platforms like Wizz and the recently acquired photo-sharing app BeReal. 

By player spending alone, this year is by far its best yet. According to AppMagic estimates, during the first eight months of 2024 the publisher generated $74 million in gross revenue from IAPs alone, and amassed 429.6m downloads. Voodoo itself claims to have transformed its hybridcasual revenue from $0 to $250 million-plus in just three years.

Its top games, which include Mob Control and Block Jam 3D, effectively set a roadmap for all hypercasual and hybridcasual developers to follow. The publisher’s achievements shouldn’t be underplayed – at risk was its very survival, yet Voodoo has taken on these challenges and flourished.

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• Candy Crush Saga
• Candy Crush Soda Saga
• Farm Heroes Saga

A new name in the Top 50, but one that just might be familiar to you. After a long wait, Microsoft has finally completed the $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, a move that also brings mobile games giant King under its roof.

That latter company offers a masterclass, year-in, year-out, in sustaining a mobile game’s longevity. Candy Crush Saga remains one of the world’s top grossing mobile titles, and there is absolutely no sign that this will stop. The successful live ops continues, and this year included the return of the Candy Crush All Stars tournament, offering a $1 million prize pot – its biggest ever.

Even in the face of the emergence of Dream Games’s Royal Match, which has surpassed Candy Crush Saga in revenue, there is no sign of cannibalisation. The Candy Crush train just keeps moving. In fact, 2024 is on track to potentially be its best year yet. Elsewhere, Candy Crush Soda Saga continues to crush it, and Farm Heroes Saga remains a steady performer, generating approximately $8 million in gross revenue on average per month so far in 2024.

King is also experimenting with expanding the Candy Crush IP once again (following on from Soda, Jelly and Friends) with Candy Crush Blast and Candy Crush 3D. Whether these come to fruition remains to be seen, however. Outside of King, Microsoft has got its hands on another lucrative title – the Tencent-developed Call of Duty: Mobile, which has shown incredible consistency despite a dive in the wider mobile shooter market. Its follow-up, Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile, has been a misfire, however.

How Microsoft utilises these assets in future is intriguing. Will King release another hit? Will Microsoft harness its IP catalogue for mobile? Will Microsoft ever launch its mobile marketplace? Perhaps those questions will be answered in time for the Top 50 Mobile Game Makers 2025.

ASSOCIATED COMPANIES

Activision Blizzard
King

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• Match Factory
• Star Wars Hunters
• Game of Thrones: Legends
• Toon Blast
• Empires & Puzzles

The sum of its parts, Take-Two’s mobile division, spearheaded by the $12.7 billion acquisition of Zynga, is one of the world’s top mobile games publishers. Its studios include Social Point, Nordeus, Peak Games, Small Giant Games, Gram Games, NaturalMotion, and Rollic. It’s not short of mobile expertise.

It isn’t short of quality new releases, either. Star Wars: Hunters is a fine cross-platform arena combat game, even if it hasn’t hit the significant revenue you might expect from such a long-gestating title with an enormous IP by a large team at NaturalMotion.

Match-3 RPG Game of Thrones: Legends follows in a similar vein – a good game and one that could potentially scale, given time – though we’ll have to wait and see. Perhaps Zynga’s most significant new release, however, comes from Turkish studio Peak Games with Match Factory.

Heading into the trendy match-3D genre, the game has steadily scaled since its global App Store launch in November 2023 (it has since been released on Google Play). Already hitting $160 million, it looks like another hit game from the team behind blast genre hits Toy Blast and Toon Blast, where Peak Games made its name.

Oh, and multi-billion dollar hit Toon Blast has also found a new lease of life thanks to new features like Super Light Ball, which Naavik reported increased its revenue baseline by more than 1.5 times.

Despite an uncertain start to the Zynga acquisition and a tough market, things seem to be settling down better now, and with great new games including a big hit, Take-Two’s mobile future looks bright.

ASSOCIATED COMPANIES

Zynga
Rollic
Gram Games
NaturalMotion Games
SocialPoint
Peak Games
Small Giant Games
Nordeus

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• Whiteout Survival
• Frozen City
• Dragonscapes Adventure
• Family Farm Adventure

Anyone in the industry has heard – and will have lived it first-hand – just how tough it is to launch a new game in the current mobile games landscape. In fact, we’ll have mentioned it a few times in this year’s Top 50. Apple’s privacy requirements, combined with macroeconomic factors and a games industry facing struggles as a whole, make it an exceptionally challenging time. Indeed, one major publisher announced in early 2023 that it wouldn’t even try launching a new game until things altered.

Century Games saw just how tough things were first-hand – and released a billion-dollar smash hit in 4X strategy game Whiteout Survival anyway. And the game’s still growing. August was its best month yet at $130 million in gross revenue on the App Store and Google Play, according to AppMagic data. That puts the title as the top grossing 4X strategy mobile game of 2024 – and one of the best performers of the year, period.

While not on the level of Whiteout Survival, other hit titles in Century Games’s catalogue aren’t lacking. From Frozen City to Dragonscapes Adventure to Family Farm Adventure, Century has a steady portfolio of successful titles in its locker that has powered it to the top 10 global mobile game publishers by revenue so far in 2024, according to AppMagic data.

Century Games isn’t exactly a new or previously unsuccessful developer, but it’s refreshing to see another name rocket up the top charts. It’s not a cheap affair, especially in the 4X strategy market, but it’s a sign developers can still release new hits in this market, which often gets accused – with reason – of its top charts being stale.

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• Honor of Kings
• PUBG Mobile
• DreamStar
• Age of Empires Mobile

You can’t have a Top 50 list without Tencent ranking in the upper echelons. It remains the world’s top grossing mobile games publisher by far – but it’s not been an easy time for the company (despite still driving ridiculous revenue). At the start of the year, Tencent’s own CEO and co-founder Pony Ma highlighted the significant challenges the outfit faces in games, which no doubt includes China’s stringent regulations and limited licensing approvals process, and accused the team of resting on its laurels as rivals like NetEase established creative hits like Eggy Party.

It’s all very dramatic – but Honor of Kings remains the highest grossing game of the year, with PUBG Mobile following not far behind. Tencent also has the publishing rights to Nexon’s mega hit Dungeon & Fighter Mobile (see opposite) in China, the biggest new game launch of 2024.

And what of Riot Games’s Teamfight Tactics and League of Legends: Wild Rift? The former is having its best year ever so far in China, while the latter is also enjoying a stellar 2024 in the country, both pulling in a combined $636m between January and August. Meanwhile, outside of China, Teamfight Tactics just had its best month ever in August – proving particularly lucrative in South Korea – coinciding with the ‘Magic n’ Mayhem’ update that features new magical traits, powerful charms, and a new roster of champions.

Elsewhere, Tencent is reportedly changing its strategy, focusing on fewer big budget games and signalling a shift away, at least partially, from its IP strategy and focusing instead on titles like Eggy Party-competitor DreamStar. Though it still has some major IPs up its sleeve – it’s currently working on Age of Empires Mobile. Additionally, it’s reportedly working on Palworld-like mobile games and a mobile title based on Final Fantasy XIV. In the face of all the public comments and the strategy shift, Tencent may be down from its high expectations, but it’s definitely not out.

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• Dungeon & Fighter Mobile
• MapleStory M
• Blue Archive

Nexon had high hopes for Dungeon & Fighter Mobile in China. Prior to release in the country on May 21st 2024, the franchise has had a long history of success – it had banked more than $22 billion in total, making it one of the world’s top IPs.

The PC version of the title was flagging following issues with its in-game economy, and Nexon needed a new hit. Well, it got what it hoped for, and perhaps even more! Dungeon & Fighter Mobile is the biggest new launch of the year – okay, it was already available in South Korea, but China is where it really matters.

Published by Tencent (see opposite), the title has already surpassed $730 million in gross revenue on China’s App Store alone at the time of writing. If you factor in China’s Android stores – which can generate a two- to three-time multiple in additional revenue – Dungeon & Fighter Mobile is already likely a billion-dollar hit, set to become one of the most successful mobile games ever.

Following its launch, Nexon exceeded its Q2 outlook with ¥122.5 billion in revenue, up 30% Y/Y. The company noted that since Dungeon & Fighter Mobile’s release, the title had sustained the top grossing position on China’s iOS App Store for more than 11 weeks prior. Franchise revenue, meanwhile, more than doubled Y/Y.

Shortly after this list is published, Nexon will release its next set of financials and provide an official glimpse into just how well it’s done. But for now, Dungeon & Fighter Mobile is clearly still a mega hit, and exactly what this year’s Top 50 is all about: companies launching smash hit new titles in the face of a challenging mobile landscape.

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• Royal Match
• Royal Kingdom

There have been pretenders to Candy Crush Saga’s throne as the king of match-3 games – or even the casual genre as a whole. But no other title in the category has been able to match King’s consistency with the original mobile puzzle blockbuster hit.

Until now. Born out of Turkey’s mobile games industry hotbed, Dream Games was co-founded by former Peak Games (Toon Blast, Toy Blast) employees in 2019, initially raising $7.5m, before later completing a $50m round.

All that funding has gone to good use. Dream Games has found the secret sauce of the match-3 genre to usurp Candy Crush Saga and take the crown with Royal Match. The title was first launched in early 2021, and due to its impeccable polish and marketing campaigns, overtook Candy Crush Saga in July 2023 as the world’s top grossing match-3 title (according to Appmagic estimates) and hasn’t looked back since. In fact, it has only widened the gap between the two titans of the puzzle space.

That’s why Dream Games has shot up this year’s Top 50 list to number 4, up from last year’s 20th position. Perhaps next year it will reach even greater heights – it has been extensively testing its Royal Match follow-up, Royal Kingdom, for over a year now. Can it strike gold again? And can it do so without cannibalising the title that’s the number 3 top grossing mobile game worldwide (App Store and Google Play) of 2024 so far? Only time will tell, but Dream Games, which has become one of Turkey’s best and most famous developers in just a few years, certainly has the credentials.

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• Genshin Impact
• Honkai: Star Rail
• Zenless Zone Zero

In last year’s Top 50 Mobile Game Makers, we ranked HoYoverse at the top spot. It’s easy to see why: the company has become a one-of-a-kind cross-platform open-world RPG hitmaker with Genshin Impact, followed by Honkai: Star Rail.

Both are billion-dollar hits, with quality levels other developers can only aspire to – and its achievements aren’t easily replicable. Worth noting that these are billion-dollar games on the App Store and Google Play alone, not counting consoles, PC and third-party Android stores in China, which generate substantial revenue.

Hardly slowing down the pace, HoYoverse has maintained high levels of success with its two flagship titles, and in the meantime, has found room to launch another hit game in Zenless Zone Zero. It’s not hit the heights of the developer’s other releases, but it’s still amassed more than $120m from player spending on mobile since its launch in June this year. There’s an argument to be made for HoYoverse dominating its specific genre: while there are debates around it cannibalising its own revenue, there’s also potential to retain fans of these experiences in the longer-term within its portfolio.

There is no other developer like HoYoverse in games. This is a repeat hit maker of triple-A, cross-platform open-world titles and action-RPGs which runs live ops at an industrial scale. Its biggest updates are almost like new games. According to AppMagic estimates, HoYoverse’s portfolio accumulated $1.3 billion in gross revenue across the App Store and Google Play during the first eight months of 2024 – again, not including sales from other platforms. HoYoverse is truly an industry leader, and when it announces and releases its next game, the entire sector will take notice.

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• Brawl Stars
• Squad Busters
• Clash of Clans
• Clash Royale
• Hay Day

After years without a global launch, the world’s most famous mobile developer has done a lot of soul searching, resulting in a major restructure that’s evolving the very core of Supercell’s culture that previously led the developer to releasing five billion-dollar hits. It may be too early to judge the impact of those changes, but it’s been a significant 12 months for the Finnish company.

Brawl Stars was, metaphorically speaking, down and out. Well, it was still a lucrative game, but it had been on the decline for years, and the multi-billion dollar title was no longer what many would consider a ‘Supercell-level’ blockbuster. After years of trying, and failing, to reverse the game’s fortunes, through new features such as Starr Drops and Hypercharges, the team finally struck gold. In fact, according to AppMagic data, since March 2024 it’s been Supercell’s flagship title. At the time of writing, this year it has accrued approximately $600m in gross revenue. The achievement shouldn’t be understated. There are a plethora of examples of the world’s biggest mobile games heading into managed decline, but there aren’t many examples of such a dramatic recovery that innovated while keeping the game’s spirit intact. Flying under the radar is a boost in player spending for Clash Royale over the past year, while Hay Day continues to perform with more than $100m this year. But what of its new release Squad Busters? After a large marketing campaign starring Hollywood A-Listers, it’s accrued more than $60m since its launch this year – Supercell’s first since 2018. It’s no slouch, but it’s not a Supercell-level title… yet.  But if anyone can reverse its fortunes, it’s Supercell. On the horizon are the studio’s next potential launches: monster hunting title mo.co and action RPG Project R.I.S.E. Could we really see another Supercell game so soon? Or will these titles get longer to cook?

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• Monopoly GO!
• Stumble Guys
• Star Trek: Fleet Command
• Yahtzee with Buddies
• Marvel Strike Force

Could the No. 1 spot really be taken by anyone else? Seven years in the making, during which time the title went under a major rework, Scopely unleashed Monopoly GO! in April 2023. And in just over one year it has soared to more than $3 billion in revenue.

The title successfully takes the globally popular classic Hasbro board game and merges it with mechanics popularised by Coin Master and some excellent social innovations. The result is a title that oozes high quality and fun, right down to the polish of the haptic feedback from each dice roll. It all comes together to form mobile gaming’s biggest hit of the past year.

In fact, it’s so good that it’s gone full circle – the adaptation of a board game has now also become a physical Monopoly GO! board game itself.

But it’s not just Monopoly GO!, Scopely has a string of top games under its belt. Stumble Guys has over 50 million monthly players and more than 700m downloads. Then there’s Marvel Strike Force, Star Trek: Fleet Command and Yahtzee with Buddies. The publisher has become the master of matching some of the world’s best IP with the best developers.

Scopely’s performance represents the very essence of this year’s Top 50 Mobile Game Makers list: despite the industry challenges, it’s released a mammoth hit in the mobile market. It continues to maintain its portfolio with excellent live ops and it’s meeting the cross-platform trend.

Saudi Arabia’s Savvy Games Group completed its acquisition of the company in July 2023 for some $4.9 billion, becoming the crown jewel in its portfolio. Despite a price tag in the billions, it’s already looking like a bargain.

That’s why Scopely tops this list. It’s also why it picked up Best Publisher, Best Live Ops, and Game of the Year at the Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards 2024 in association with Gamelight.

No one is doing it better.

ASSOCIATED COMPANIES

Savvy Games Group