Sensor Tower releases ranking of top 10 global popular mobile games by revenue in April

DoNews reported on May 23 that Sensor Tower store intelligence data showed that in April 2024, Scopely's "Monopoly GO!" attracted US$258 million in global App Store and Google Play, and continued to top the global mobile game best-selling list.

Among them, 83% of the revenue comes from the US market, the French market accounts for 2.9%, and the British market accounts for 2.7%.

In April, the game celebrated its 1st anniversary and launched a number of anniversary activities, including “Annivesary Auction”, “Anniversary Treasures”, and “Golden Blitz”, making April the month since its release. Third highest earning month.

Tencent’s “Honor of Kings” ranked second on the list with revenue of US$234 million. In early April, the game launched new activities such as "Awakening Battle", a new skin "Sang Qi-Qiyu Star Brigade", and a variety of skins that returned for a limited time. On April 5, the daily revenue on the iOS channel approached US$100 million. It hit the highest single-day sales peak in April.

On April 19, the theme skin launched in cooperation with "Saint Seiya" was launched, causing another peak in game day revenue.

The other three games in the top five revenue list are Dream Games "Royal Match", "Roblox" and King "Candy Crush Saga".

In April 2024, global mobile game players paid nearly US$6.5 billion in the App Store and Google Play, which was basically the same year-on-year. The United States remains the market with the highest mobile game revenue in the world, contributing more than US$2.1 billion and accounting for 32.6% of total global revenue. The Chinese iOS market ranks second, accounting for 18.6%; the Japanese market ranks third, accounting for 12.3%.

In April, MiHoYo’s two mobile games performed strongly. On April 24, "Genshin Impact" released version 4.6, which contains a new map, new character "Arecino", new activities and other rich content. The new version brought the game back to No. 9 on the global mobile game revenue list, and topped the April revenue growth list, making it the highest-grossing month this year.

On April 17, "Honkai Impact: Star Rail" launched the second half of the card pool of version 2.1, introduced the new character "Golden Sand", and also returned the limited-time character "Mirror Flow", making the game in the Ranked among the top 2 in the best-selling iPhone mobile games list in Japan and South Korea.

As the latest work in the AFK series, Lilith Games' "AFK Journey" has been highly praised by players through comprehensive iteration and innovation in art and combat gameplay, and it ranked second in the global mobile game revenue growth list in April. name.

On April 17, Yostar "Sparrow Soul" cooperated with the well-known IP "Blue Files" to launch new characters "Sand Wolf Baizi", "Little Bird Yu Hoshino", "Light Yellow Moonless" and "Lu "Aru the Eight Demons", as well as corresponding limited-time costumes. In the first three days after the launch of the event, in-game purchase revenue exceeded US$5 million, and it ranked first and second on the best-selling iPhone mobile game lists in Taiwan, China and Japan respectively.

Created by the high-profile "Dragon Blaze" team and published by HYBE IM, "ASTRA: Knights of Veda" has attracted widespread attention since its launch on April 2. With its emotional art style and smooth combat mechanism, the game's revenue exceeded US$9 million in its first month of release, successfully ranking 9th on the global mobile game revenue growth list.

On April 25, "GODDESS OF VICTORY: NIKKE" published by Tencent celebrated its 1.5th anniversary. The game launched new characters, costumes, activities and other content updates. This celebration event made the game top the best-selling iPhone mobile game list in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, and its revenue in April achieved a 39% month-on-month growth.

Note: The data does not include third-party Android channels.

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