The most popular games set new benchmarks in the gaming industry, reflecting unprecedented growth and player engagement. Blizzard Entertainment’s Diablo series has surpassed 100 million players, while Star Citizen’s revenues have skyrocketed past $700 million, backed by over 5.2 million supporters.
Most popular mobile games 2024
- Rise of Kingdoms revenue exceeded $3.5 billion. 25.6% of all money came from the U.S., 14.4% from China, and 12.6% from South Korea. South Korea is the leader in RPD ($142) and ARPDAU ($5). China (RPD, $6; ARPDAU, $4.6) and the U.S. (RPD, $62; ARPDAU, $3.3) are behind it.
- Dungeon & Fighter Mobile has successfully launched in China. In the first week from May 21, the game earned $66 million on iOS alone, and revenue from the two platforms exceeded $140 million (Niko Partners estimate). 2.4 million users have installed the game. The game has been available in South Korea since March 2022, earning more than $185.6 million in just over two years.
- PUBG Mobile ranked second after earning $141.2 million in May, a 12.6% increase year over year, but a 9.6% decrease month over month.
- Netmarble launched a new RPG called Solo Leveling: Arise in May. It garnered an estimated 18 million installs and was the third most downloaded game worldwide last month. The game also generated $56.6 million in its debut month, making it the 14th top-grossing mobile game in the world.
- Dream Games’ Royal Match dethroned Scopely’s Monopoly GO last month, claiming the No. 3 spot. Player spending surged to $138 million, marking a 48.9% increase year over year and a 7% rise month over month.
- Squad Busters earned $1.1 million on its first day. And on the same day, the game was downloaded 8.8 million times. According to AppMagic, the game earned $10.66 million in its first week.
- Brawl Stars continued to soar in May, reaching the 8th spot with a revenue of $94.2 million, a 721.3% increase year over year and a 2.9% increase monthly.
Most popular PC and console games 2024
- Blizzard Entertainment boasted that over 100 million people have played the Diablo series of games
- Star Citizen revenues have passed $700 million. More than 5.2 million people have donated. In August 2023, news broke of $600 million raised.
- Dragon’s Dogma 2 sales reached 3 million copies. The first 2.5 million copies were sold within 2 weeks of release (the game was released on March 22 this year).
- Content Warning sold 2.2 million copies in 2 months. The total number of players exceeded 8.8 million (the game was given away for free for the first time).
- Marvel Rivals already has over 1 million wishlists on Steam and EGS.
- The Octopath Traveler series has sold more than 4 million copies. Both parts of the game recently launched on Xbox Game Pass.
- Songs of Conquest has sold 500 million copies. The game went into Early Access on May 10, 2022, and recently had a full release.
- Hypercharge: Unboxed sold over 50,000 copies in its first week on Xbox.
- Retro-gaming handheld console Evercade reported selling its one-millionth cartridge. The company took four years to accomplish this.
- Fallout 76 reached the 20 million user mark. Last December, the number of players was 17 million. The series’ success soared the DAU of Fallout games by 600%. Todd Howard is pleased.
- MultiVersus successfully returned to Steam with 153 thousand CCUs at launch. CCU has now stabilized at 17 thousand CCU.
- Free Silent Hill: The Short Message has been downloaded over 2.5 million times.
