Weekly Reports Recap: November 1 - November 5
October results by AppMagic; Genshin Impact results and more in this recap.
This week:
State of Survival collaboration with The Walking Dead brought 20M new users
App Annie: League of Legends: Wild Rift Earned $150M in first 370 days
AppMagic: Top Mobile Games in October by Revenue and Downloads
Sensor Tower: ROBLOX servers outage led users to Twitch, Among Us, and Minecraft
Genshin Impact might be the most successful game ever in the first year after launch
Sensor Tower: Harry Potter: Magic Awakened earned $228M in less than 2 months
Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes earned $1.4B since the release
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State of Survival collaboration with The Walking Dead brought 20M new users
The partnership started in March. New items, in-game events were added to the State of Survival. Also, Daryl Dixon, one of The Walking Dead characters, was presented as a playable character.
This September the game passed 100M downloads plank.
App Annie: League of Legends: Wild Rift Earned $150M in first 370 days
Only Honour of Kings among competitors achieved this sum faster - it took Tencent’s game only 249 days.
The US and Brazil are top regions in players spendings at League of Legends: Wild Rift.
League of Legends: Wild Rift is the most successful Riot Games title now. Its revenue is higher than Teamfight’s Tactics and Legends of Runeterra’s combined.
AppMagic: Top Mobile Games in October by Revenue and Downloads
Revenue
PUBG Mobile is back to the throne - in October project received $107.7M of revenue.
The most profitable iOS game was Honor of Kings ($87.7M); on Android ODIN: Valhalla Rising led the chart ($53.1M).
Only one new game - the Chinese version of League of Legends: Wild Rift - entered the chart with $43.5M of revenue.
Monster Strike released in 2013 received $71.8M of revenue in October.
Downloads
Garena Free Fire MAX won the overall downloads chart with 41.5M of downloads, 39.7M of which came from Android.
The most downloaded game on iOS was the Chinese version of League of Legends: Wild Rift - it received 6.8M of downloads.
On 2,3 and 5 places of overall downloads chart landed games inspired by Squid Game. 456: Survival Game (second place) managed to get 36.3M downloads.
Sensor Tower: ROBLOX servers outage led users to Twitch, Among Us, and Minecraft
From 29 to 31 October, the time, spent by users in Twitch, increased by 8%, compared to previous days. Among Us, time spending increased by 6%, Minecraft - by 2%.
By the outage time (from 29 to 31 October), ROBLOX lost only 33% in sessions. People were still trying to enter the game.
Among Us experienced on October 30 the best day by downloads from 4 April 2021 and the best day in revenue since 17 July 2021.
Genshin Impact might be the most successful game ever in the first year after launch
The first 365 days brought the game $2.1B of revenue only on Mobile devices.
If we count all platforms, the overall revenue might be from $2.3B to $3.7B, based on different sources.
Only Fortnite has shown comparable results the first year.
Sensor Tower: Harry Potter: Magic Awakened earned $228M in less than 2 months
The game managed to reach second place among the most profitable mobile games based on Harry Potter IP. The first place is held by Hogwarts Mystery - the game’s lifetime revenue is $342M.
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, which soon will be closed, received $39M in a lifetime.
If we’ll compare the first month after launch, then Harry Potter: Magic Awakened will heavily outperform other franchise projects. The game has earned $180.7M during the first month, while the nearest competitor - Hogwarts Mystery - received $32.6M.
The majority of Harry Potter mobile games revenue comes from the US - $285.6M (38,4% of the overall amount). The second place belongs to China - 28% - but only because of the Harry Potter: Magic Awakened launch. The third country, which likes Harry, is Germany - 5.4% of revenue.
The total revenue of mobile games using Harry Potter IP is $743M.
Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes earned $1.4B since the release
The game that launched in 2015, has been downloaded more than 100M times.
The majority of revenue ($850M) comes from the US. Germany and the UK are next.
From Q1 to Q3 of 2021 the game received more than $170M, which shows consistent interest in the project even years after.
Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes is the most successful mobile game based on the Star Wars IP. It’s responsible for 98% of all last 5 Star Wars-based mobile games.