Sensor Tower: South Korean gamers have spent almost $1.5B on games in Q3 2021
Odin: Valhalla Rising is leading the market.
The exact amount of gaming revenue in Q3 2021 - $1.47B, showing 5% growth YoY.
80,3% of the revenue came from Google Play, the rest - from the App Store. But it is worth to mention, that Sensor Tower is not tracking alternative stores, which are relatively big in South Korea.
In Q3 2021 games have been downloaded 139M times, which is 16% lower, than a year before.
RPG became the main revenue driver, they were responsible for 66% of overall revenues. 8 out of 10 games in the top-10 are RPGs.
Odin: Valhalla Rising is the top game of Q3 2021. It has earned $230M (54% of the overall revenue of the top-10) and reached 4 place by downloads.
Genshin Impact managed to earn $45M.
Out of 100 top-grossing games, 35 were released by Chinese developers. Cumulatively, they’ve earned $280M, which is about 24% of overall mobile revenue in South Korea.
Pokemon Unite is the top downloaded game with 1.5M of downloads.