AppMagic: Top Mobile Games by Revenue and Downloads in April 2025
Honor of Kings reclaimed the top spot.
AppMagic provides revenue data net of store commissions and taxes. Revenue from Android stores in China is not included.
Revenue
Honor of Kings returned to the top by revenue, earning $181.5M. 99% of this amount came from iOS.
Second place went to Last War: Survival ($152.5 million), third place to Whiteout Survival ($136.9 million).
Honkai: Star Rail showed significant revenue growth, earning $71.7 million in April. This is a record since April 2024, when the game celebrated its first anniversary.
Gossip Harbor: Merge & Story entered the top 15 - the game has been steadily growing in revenue since its launch in June 2022. In April, the project earned $39.9 million, a record figure.
Downloads
There were not many changes in the download charts in April. The top spots are still held by the same projects - Block Blast! (39.5 million installs), Roblox (19.6 million), Subway Surfers (13.97 million).
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Cookingdom saw significant growth - the game jumped to 8th place in the charts, with a little over 10 million downloads in April. This is a cozy game where you cook for capybaras. The developers are ABI Games Studio, known for Prison Break: Stick Story and Wood Nuts & Bolts Puzzle.