App Annie: Garena Free Fire became the most popular Battle Royale game of the first half of 2021
Solid performance.
From January to July 2021 the game was downloaded 104.5M times. Garena Free Fire lost only to Join Clash from FreePlay.
Competitors performed much worse. PUBG Mobile had 71.6M installs during the same period; Call of Duty: Mobile - only 38.3M.
However, the number of active users in PUBG Mobile is still higher. But engagement is better in Garena Free Fire - its users playing 35% more sessions.
Comparing downloads from the launch moment, Garena Free Fire accumulated more than a billion downloads; PUBG Mobile - 974M, and Call of Duty: Mobile - 409M. Worth to mention, that latter was released 2 years later than competitors.