Sensor Tower: Mobile Action games in the US grew by 69% thanks to Genshin Impact
Impressive performance.
The genre revenue in the US reached $966.8M. It’s 68.9% higher than last year.
Growth dynamics is highest among all genres in the US last year.
The largest subgenre of Action game was Open World Adventure, which earned $418.3M and showed 3.5x times growth to 2020. However, the main game of this sub-genre is Genshin Impact, which revenue in 2021 in the US was $406.3M.
The second place by genres revenue growth belongs to Hypercasual titles. They grew by 43.1% (+$111M). Third place is owned by the Tabletop genre (+35.4% - $772.5M overall).
The puzzle genre become the top in terms of absolute revenues. The US users spent $5.1B in Puzzle games in 2021. Casino ($4.8B) and Strategy games ($4.3B) are next.
All genres have seen a decline in downloads in the US in 2021, but sports games experienced the smallest one.