The H1 2022 mobile games revenue is lower by 6.6% to the same period in 2021. The iOS decrease in revenue was 0.8% YoY (from $25.8B to $25.6B). The Android revenue fell by 14.8% (from $18.3B to $15.6B).
Honor of Kings (1.4B), PUBG Mobile ($1.1B), Genshin Impact ($986.2M), Candy Crush Saga ($593.5M), and Roblox ($576.5M) are leaders of the H1 2022 by revenue.
Despite the revenue decline, the overall number of downloads increased by 0.4% from the previous year to 28.1B. Google Play downloads increased by 1.3% while App Store decreased by 4.5%.
The top downloaded games of H1 2022 were Subway Surfers (148,7M), Garena Free Fire (147,2M), and Ludo King (87,7M).
The overall revenue of mobile apps in H1 2022 was $65B. It’s 1% more than in H1 2021.