Top 15 games like pokemon for ios and android 2023
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Globally we’ve collectively downloaded more than 255 billion mobile apps in 2022 and more than half of them were games. While apps recently finally surpassed games in the U.S. for the first time ever in terms of revenue — thanks to streaming media and subscriptions — the reality is that both globally and in both the U.S., games are both the vast majority of smartphone downloads and massively significant in terms of mobile revenue. Show
All of which means: it’s time to share the top 50 games of 2023 so far in the U.S. Most downloaded mobile games so far in 2023So far, according to SensorTower data, the top games of 2023 by downloads are pretty jammed with familiar names. On Android, the leaders are:
On iOS, the top 10 games so far, by downloads are:
Note that these are the most-downloaded games right now, and that’s a list that can be pretty volatile as different games publishers invest more or less in new user acquisition. It will change over time. But are the most downloaded games the top ones?Each of those mobile games has a lot of downloads, but number of installs alone can’t be enough to make the list of the top 50 mobile games of 2023. Sure, scale is interesting — how many installs a game achieved — but engagement and active players and actual usage is probably much more important. One of the ways to measure that is revenue: do players playing these mobile games love them enough to lay out cold hard cash? Are these games good enough to pull out your credit card? (Or, yes, allow Apple or Google to take another little chunk out of your bank account.) Perhaps the best way to determine the best games of 2023 so far is a combination of both:
That combination is important. A top game should still be relevant to new players: it should be adding new people, or else it’s just slowly dying. In addition, it should also keep existing players engaged, interested, and having fun for at least months, and preferentially years. That makes it fresh enough for newbies, and still interesting for veterans. The reality is that it is only the very unusual, extraordinary game that gets released years ago — even a decade ago, Subway Surfers! — and is still big. It’s an even more extraordinary game, like Clash of Clans, Roblox, or Call of Duty, that is still at or near the top of the revenue charts years and years after its initial release. iOS, then Android, then combinedFirst, we’ll look at iOS. iOS might seem small. After all, it only accounts for about 20% of global downloads: 8 billion in Q2 2022 to Android’s 27 billion, according to SensorTower data. But even so, iOS still takes credit for more than half of all in-app mobile revenue … thanks largely to the geographies where Apple owns market share: typically richer countries in North America, Europe, and certain parts of Asia. Then we’ll look at Android, where the vast majority of app and game installs happen, especially in massive Android-centric countries like India. (And China, but data is hard to come by there thanks to the proliferation of third-party app stores.) And finally, we’ll combine scores to arrive at an overall list of top 50 games of 2023 so far. Data will be US-centric (sorry!) but perhaps we’ll be able to do other countries or regions later. For installs, I’m looking at recent data from SensorTower: games that are hot right now, but the top grossing component of the score will bias towards games with some track record. And I’m weighting the scores about 2:1 in favor of revenue as a stronger engagement metric than pure downloads. iOS: top 30 games of 2023 so far by revenueHere are the top 30 mobile games on iOS by revenue. Only 8 of them are on both this list of top earners as well as the top downloads list:
Candy Crush Saga 3 Royal Match 4 Roblox 5 Gardenscapes 6 Marvel SNAP 7 Coin Master 8 Pokemon GO 9 Township 10 Clash of Clans 11 Homescapes 12 Call of Duty: Mobile 13 Evony 14 Jackpot Party – Casino Slots 15 Fishdom 16 Bingo Blitz 17 Candy Crush Soda Saga 18 Rise of Kingdoms 19 Puzzles & Survival 20 Age of Origins: Tower Defense 21 Lightning Link Casino Slots 22 Solitaire Grand Harvest 23 Toon Blast 24 Cashman Casino Las Vegas Slots 25 Clash Royale 26 Slotomania Slots 27 DoubleDown Casino Slots Game 28 Project Makeover 29 Top War: Battle Game 30 Star Trek Fleet Command Interestingly, 5 of these top-earning iOS games are gambling, slots, or casino games, which just highlights how big mashups have become in mobile gaming. Also interestingly, many of these top earning iOS games that have had a significant life span:
Android: top 30 games of 2023 so far by revenuePossibly because Android is more geographically diverse in market share than iOS, only 5 games show up on both most-downloaded and highest-grossing lists, compared to 8 on iOS. Not coincidently, however, all of these games are also on both iOS lists as well.
Here are the top 30 games for Android so far in 2023: Rank Game 1 Candy Crush Saga 2 Coin Master 3 Royal Match 4 Township 5 Roblox 6 Bingo Blitz 7 Pokemon GO 8 Evony: The King’s Return 9 Jackpot Party Casino Slots 10 Solitaire Grand Harvest 11 Clash of Clans 12 Candy Crush Soda Saga 13 Homescapes 14 RAID: Shadow Legends 15 Gardenscapes 16 Family Island – Farming Game 17 Slotomania Slots 18 Fishdom 19 Cashman Casino Las Vegas Slots 20 Call of Duty: Mobile 21 Last Shelter: Survival 22 Merge Dragons! 23 Lotsa Slots 24 Lightning Link Casino Slots 25 Cash Frenzy – Casino Slots 26 State of Survival: Zombie War 27 Goddess of Victory: Nikke 28 DoubeDown Casino Vegas Slots 29 Triple Match 3D 30 Toon Blast No fewer than 7 of the top 50 games on Android are casino/Vegas/gambling games, compared to 5 on iOS. More striking, perhaps, is the overlap between iOS top games and Android top games. More than half — 18 of the top 30 games — are tops in revenue on both the iOS and Android games lists, meaning that 60% of the top 60 games are common to both major mobile platforms. That makes sense on a lot of levels: good games rise to the top, big marketing budgets help make both the iOS and Android versions of a game to get popular, and everyone releases for both major platforms. Also, for battle games that require a critical mass of players to form clans or teams, or to match up in fights, being big on one platform tends to help a game get big on the other. Plus, of course, when a game gets popular it starts to generate its own buzz, and both people and platforms tend to start promoting it. Combined iOS and Android: top 75 mobile games of 2023 so farAt last, here are the top 75 mobile games of 2023 so far based on Android and iOS and number of installs plus amount of revenue, which is a proxy for players, usage, and engagement. The combined score is based on their ranking in both top downloads and top revenue lists, with revenue being weighted 2X as much as downloads. Completely unsurprisingly given their positioning in both the iOS and Android top lists, Royal Match, Roblox, and Candy Crush Saga are 1 and2 and3, respectively. Coin Master, and Fishdom round out the top 5 games of 2023 so far, while Gardenscapes and Pokémon GO sit just outside the top 5.Rank Game Combined score 1 Royal Match 166 2 Roblox 158 3 Candy Crush Saga 158 4 Coin Master 123 5 Township 122 6 Gardenscapes 117 7 Pokemon GO 94 8 Clash of Clans 82 9 Bingo Blitz 80 10 Homescapes 80 11 Call of Duty: Mobile 74 12 Candy Crush Soda Saga 66 13 Genshin Impact 60 14 Solitaire Grand Harvest 60 15 Attack Hole 58 16 Fishdom 58 17 Marvel SNAP 50 18 Evony: The King’s Return 46 19 Jackpot Party Casino Slots 44 20 Chess – Play & Learn 43 21 Parking Jam 3D 43 22 Slotomania Slots 38 23 Cashman Casino Las Vegas Slots 38 24 Evony 36 25 Mob Control 35 26 Jackpot Party – Casino Slots 34 27 RAID: Shadow Legends 34 28 Lightning Link Casino Slots 34 29 Frozen City 31 30 Dumb Ways to Die 30 31 Survivor! 30 32 Family Island – Farming Game 30 33 Fight For America: Defense War 29 34 Fight for America: Defense War 29 35 Cat Snack Bar 26 36 Rise of Kingdoms 26 37 NBA All-World 25 38 Subway Surfers 25 39 Block Blast Adventure Master 24 40 Puzzles & Survival 24 41 LightSaber – Gun Simulator 23 42 Mechangelion – Robot Fighting 22 43 Age of Origins: Tower Defense 22 44 Tap Away 3D 21 45 FIFA Soccer 21 46 Last Shelter: Survival 20 47 Pull the Pin 19 48 Ragdoll Playground 19 49 Merge Dragons! 18 50 Toon Blast 18 51 Stumble Guys 17 52 8 Ball Pool 17 53 Woodoku 17 54 Triple Tile: Match Puzzle Game 16 55 Lotsa Slots 16 56 Block Blast 15 57 Balls’n Ropes 14 58 X-Hero 12 59 Clash Royale 12 60 Cash Frenzy – Casino Slots 12 61 State of Survival: Zombie War 10 62 Water Sort Puzzle: Get Color 9 63 Stick Hero: Tower Defense 9 64 Wordle! 8 65 DoubleDown Casino Slots Game 8 66 Goddess of Victory: Nikke 8 67 Makeover Studio: Makeup Games 7 68 Magic Tiles 3 7 69 Wordscapes 6 70 Project Makeover 6 71 DoubeDown Casino Vegas Slots 6 72 Save the Doge 5 73 Top War: Battle Game 4 74 Triple Match 3D 4 75 Magic Tiles 3: Piano Game 3 Amazingly, Clash of Clans continues its massive and long run of success. It’s a game that just keeps generating new users, but more importantly, one that keeps players for years and years and years. Wordle, which had a major burst of virality, has sunk down to 64, while Playrix Games’ super-popular ‘scapes offerings, Homescapes and Gardenscapes continue to be heavily marketed, continue to add new users, and continue to generate massive revenue. In fact, they’re doing better so far in 2023 than they were in 2022.Closing thoughts on the top games of 2023There are plenty more ways to find and list the top games of any year, including 2023. My current favorite game is 6 years old and didn’t make the list, for one thing, and another option would be to check all the game reviews of the year and see which ones are the highest rated by reviewers as well as the highest rated on Google Play and the App Store. It’s also interesting to think about why a game might make the most downloaded but not the most profitable lists, and vice versa. Top grossing games, for instance, might be in a monetization phase: they’ve gathered a huge number of players, and now they need to make some money back for all their development and marketing. And top games by installs that don’t hit the top grossing list might just be in a category that doesn’t monetize super well — casual games, I’m looking at you — or might be focusing on scale rather than revenue. In any case, if your favorite game didn’t make the list, that’s probably because with 10 million apps in Google Play and the iOS App Store, there’s a lot of choice. There’s something for everyone. What Pokémon game should I get 2023?What Pokémon game should I get 2023? However, if you need a single recommendation, try out Nintendo Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! It is our best overall pick because of its exciting gameplay, fantastic visuals, and enjoyment. Are there any games like Pokémon on Android?EvoCreo is in the same vein as Pokémon for monster-collecting and battling; you'll catch Creos in wild grass, form a party of five, and train them to become strong in battle. Which is the No 1 Pokémon game in the world Android?Pokémon UNITE Pokémon UNITE is one of the most unique games in the franchise, so of course it's going to be a popular choice for Android. UNITE is a MOBA, which is not a genre many would have ever expected The Pokémon Company to ever foray into. What is the new Pokémon game coming to iOS?Pokémon Sleep Will Release in Summer 2023 for iOS and Android, Pokemon GO Plus+ Announced for Pokemon GO and Pokemon Sleep – TouchArcade. |
