AppMagic: Hypercasual Market in Q3 2024
Downloads are declining; top games are experiencing this too.
Market Data
In Q3 2024, hyper-casual games were downloaded 2.98 billion times, 12% less than in the previous quarter.
Comparing Q3 2024 to Q3 2023, there was an overall decline of 11%. Downloads in Western Tier-1 countries fell by 8%, while in Eastern Tier-1 countries, the numbers remained steady.
Top-10 Games by Downloads
The trend of declining downloads among the top 10 games is evident in Q3 2024.
Two new projects made it into the top 10. One is Hole.io by Voodoo, with 23 million downloads in Q3 2024. Interestingly, the game was initially released in 2018, when it was downloaded 25 million times. Its resurgence in popularity is largely due to a surge in downloads from India and Brazil.
Snake Clash! is the second newcomer in the top 10, with 18 million downloads in Q3 2024. It was released by Supercent in May 2023.