The Most Satisfying Mobile Games 2024 - Number Runner 3D, Roof Rails, Flying Cut Games
0The Most Satisfying Mobile Games 2024 - Number Runner 3D, Roof Rails, Flying Cut Games
What are the top 50 mobile games of 2024 so far? I thought you’d never ask! We’ve just updated the list for January.
Globally we downloaded almost 300 billion mobile apps in 2023, according to Statista, and more than half of them were games. That’s up almost 50 billion app installs from the previous — an almost 20% increase in mobile app downloads — and we might be in for an additional jump in 2024. While apps recently finally surpassed games in the U.S. for the first time ever in terms of revenue — thanks to streaming media and subscriptions — the reality is that both globally and in both the U.S., games are both the vast majority of smartphone downloads and massively significant in terms of mobile revenue.
All of which means: it’s time to share the top 50 games of 2024 so far. Note: these are U.S. numbers.
Most downloaded mobile games so far in 2024
So far, according to Data.ai data, the top games of 2024 (so far) by downloads include some familiar names, but also some new ones.
ON ANDROID, THE LEADERS ARE:
Monopoly Go!
Help Me: Tricky Story
Roblox
Match Frenzy: 1 Line Draw
Block Blast!
Traffic Escape!
Royal Match
Dice Dreams
Last War: Survival Game
Wood Nuts & Bolts Puzzle
ON IOS, THE TOP 10 GAMES SO FAR BY DOWNLOADS ARE:
Monopoly Go!
Twisted Tangle
Royal Match
Wood Nuts & Bolts Puzzle
Roblox
Last War: Survival
Block Blast!
Outlets Rush
Call of Duty: Mobile
We Are Warriors!
Note that these are the most downloaded games right now in early 2024. That’s a list that can be pretty volatile as different game publishers spend more or less to advertise their games to new players. It will change over time. But it’s still a major accomplishment to appear on this list.
Perhaps the biggest accomplishment: Monopoly Go! is a game just created and released in 2023, and right now very early in 2024 it’s a top game on both the App Store and Google Play. Another big one: the Wood Nuts & Bolts Puzzle game is just over a month old, and it’s already a top game by downloads. We’ll have to see if it keeps its momentum.
Important question: are the most downloaded games really the top ones?
Each of those mobile games has a lot of downloads, but number of installs alone can’t be enough to make the list of the top 50 mobile games of 2024 so far. Scale is good — getting a lot of installs is completely necessary for a game to be on top — but engagement and active players and actual usage is probably much more important. And probably most important is: are these games good enough and interesting enough and addictive enough to make players pull out their metaphorical credit cards and buy stuff? (Or, yes, allow Apple or Google to take a chunk out of your bank account.)
As we’ve built these lists over the years, we’ve felt the best way to determine the top games of 2024 so far is a combination of both:
how many installs a game received
how revenue a game is generating
That combination is important.
A top game should still be relevant to new players: it should be adding new people, or else it’s just slowly dying. Maybe that’s OK for a big studio: they’ve made their money. But it certainly takes them out of the top games sweepstakes. In addition, a top game should also keep existing players engaged, interested, and having fun for at least months, and preferentially years.
That makes it fresh enough for newbies, and still interesting for veterans.
The reality is that it is only the very unusual, extraordinary game that gets released years ago — even a decade ago, Subway Surfers! — and is still big. It’s an even more extraordinary game, like Clash of Clans, Roblox, or Call of Duty, that is still at or near the top of the revenue charts years and years after its initial release.
Credits:
1. BLU
2. https://www.singular.net/blog/top-mobile-games/