App Annie has published lists of the most popular and profitable mobile games in February 2017. The most successful projects of the month included Honor of Kings, Real Piano and Fire Emblem Heroes.
Zynga returned to the Top 10 leaders in iOS downloads after a month of absence. This spring, the company may rise even higher in the chart. She has three big word projects on the way: New Words With Friends, Boggle With Friends and Crosswords With Friends. But the Japanese Nintendo threatens to drop out of the top ten altogether.
Top 10 Download Companies (iOS, February 2017)
The top ten in downloads on Google Play has changed little. Vasco Games mobile factory has left the top, which only on Android can boast of 2,467 released applications of various genres: from super casual and three-in-a-row to tractor simulators and hover racing. The company lost the tenth place in the top of the Finnish Rovio.
Top 10 Download Companies (Google Play, February 2017)
The main change in the top ten most profitable gaming companies on iOS is the departure of EA. Her place went to GungHo, the authors of Puzzle & Dragons. The growth of the company’s position is due to the growth of sales of the Japanese version of the game. Netmarble, in turn, continues to climb to the top of the Apple chart. On iOS, the recently acquired MARVEL Contest of Champions actively helps her in this.
Top 10 Companies by Revenue (iOS, February 2017)
On the Android platform, Netmarble holds the first position in the Top 10 revenue leaders thanks to Lineage II: Revolution. Before the release of the game, which now earns the most on Google Play from the Korean market alone, the company was not even in the top ten. Niantic has also returned to the top. This happened after the Korean language appeared in Pokémon GO.
Top 10 Companies by Revenue (Google Play, February 2017)
Honor of Kings, a mobile MOBA from Tencent, has become the most downloaded game of the month on the App Store. In second place in popularity, although visually much simpler, but also related to online and PvP – Snake Off, published by another Chinese company – Weipai.
Getting Chameleon Run in the middle of February in the App of the Week and lowering the price tag to zero allowed the game to be in the Top 5 most downloaded iOS games.
Top 10 Games by Downloads (iOS, February 2017)
The biggest surprise in the top downloads on Google Play is the appearance of the Belarusian developer Gismart in it. The Real Piano game was ranked fourth in the world by downloads from Android in February. Also this month, Pokémon GO returned to the top. The new Bubble Witch 3 Saga took the ninth place in the chart after its worldwide release.
Top 10 games by downloads (Google Play, February 2017)
The main change in the box office top of the leaders on iOS is the return to the top of the Japanese version of Puzzle & Dragons. The project is celebrating its fifth anniversary this year. Clash Royale, on the contrary, is losing ground again. Perhaps the pauses between major updates in the game are too long for such a project.
Top 10 Games by Revenue (iOS, February 2017)
Fire Emblem Heroes entered the Top 10 highest-grossing games in February on Google Play. The game ranked seventh in revenue, ahead of Clash Royale, Clash of Clans and Puzzle & Dragons. Lineage II: Revolution continues to be the highest-grossing game on the Android platform.
Top 10 Games by Revenue (Google Play, February 2017)Source: App Annie
