Here are the most-downloaded games worldwide from last month, according to Appmagic data.
The top ten is below, with annotations that indicate each game’s month-on-month rise or fall in the rankings.
There’s also commentary on March’s most notable trends from the top 20 and beyond.
Having launched with a beefy 50m pre-orders, it’s no surprise to find Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile top of March’s downloads chart, despite having only released on the 21st of the month.
There’s much more detail on the launch of this game in a chat with Activision’s co-head of mobile Chris Plummer we published earlier this week, in which he talks us through launch marketing, on-device performance, battle royale bots and why other big ‘traditional’ game publishers can’t seem to get mobile right.
Roblox keeps Robloxing in second, posting a very similar figure as it did in February, while in third 8 Ball Pool continues to undergo something more than a mere revival – March 2024 was its biggest month for downloads since Appmagic started tracking data in January 2015.
Miniclip’s stalwart pool game was pulling in around 9m installs per month since the start of 2021, but has been tearing up the charts since October 2023; a boom in Indonesia and the Philippines appears to have caused the spike.
Here’s a new one in fourth: Ojol The Game, an Android-only game that posted 5m downloads in February, which leapt up to a whopping 16.1m in March. It’s a no-frills game about being a motorcycle taxi driver that’s huge in Indonesia.
Supercent’s Pizza Ready keeps rising, up from ~11m installs in February to a highest-ever total of over 15m in March. Downloads are mostly from India, with Brazil, Indonesia, the US and Mexico also top performing markets.
Subway Surfers posted around 15m monthly installs for the second month running, a pretty typical month for Sybo’s runner – though it is a little down on the ~18m it was pulling in during December and January.
Like Subway Surfers, ABI Games Studio’s Wood Nuts & Bolts Puzzle also pulled in around 15m downloads for the second month running. The second of ABI’s top ten hits for March is newbie Left or Right: Magic Dress Up, which leaps a mighty 178 chart spots to end the month in ninth, having racked up ~3m downloads in February. ABI seems to be creating more and more of these surprise hits, so kudos to the Vietnamese firm for pulling whatever levers it is pulling.
Sandwiched in between those ABI games in eighth is Gametion’s Ludo King, which is back up in the ~15m range after a few months of getting 10-12m monthly downloads.
Brawl Stars’ ongoing comeback, explained in detail by Supercell here, continues with a rise of 11 places and a return to the top ten. Interestingly Turkey has been the top market for installs in the last 30 days, followed by the US, Germany, Brazil and Spain (perhaps Supercell has added some local promo into its marketing?).
With just over 13m downloads, March was Brawl Stars’ biggest month of downloads since January 2019, its second month of global release.
March’s top mobile game downloads 11-20:
11. Free Fire: The Chaos (Garena): 12.6m
12. Block Blast (Hungry Studio): 12.5m
13. Royal Match (Dream Games): 12.4m
14. Build A Queen (Supersonic): 11.8m
15. Free Fire Max (Garena): 11.3m
16. PUBG Mobile (Tencent): 10.5m
17. My Talking Tom 2 (Outfit7): 9.3m
18. Candy Crush Saga (King): 9.3m
19. Bridge Race (Supersonic): 8.9m
20. Moto Rider (Zego Studio): 8.6m
With several new entries in the top ten, many of the usual suspects have been punted into the 11-20 bracket, including Free Fire (down three spots), Block Blast (down nine places) and Royal Match, down an eyebrow-raising 12 slots.
Build A Queen is down by four spots month-on-month, and PUBG Mobile (down five) and Candy Crush Saga (down six) also saw month-on-month drops.
Of those games seeing the biggest drops, Block Blast is effectively back to the average ~12m it was getting for most of 2023, but Royal Match’s decline was by far the sharpest, down from ~20m installs in February to ~12m last month. Has Dream Games eased up on the UA? Email me if you have insights to share.
It’s perhaps also worth nothing that Candy Crush Saga’s monthly drop of six places looks more dramatic than it actually is – it’s only down around 600k downloads month-on-month.
Rounding out the top 20 on a happier note, Supersonic’s evergreen Bridge Race suddenly leapt up 24 places last month, hitting nearly 9m installs after racking up around 6m in February.
Outside the top 20, there are notable declines for Race Master 3D, Magic Tiles 3 and Going Balls, but Supercent’s Snake Clash is rising nicely, up 67 places to 27th spot this month.
Eggy Party, meanwhile, plummets 19 places after a decent debut, which perhaps shows it has some way to go to break the west. It’s down to 32nd spot and around 7m installs for March after getting around 9.6m after it launched in the west during February.
It’s also worth nothing Monopoly Go‘s pretty notable drop-off: it’s down in 53rd place, a month-on-month drop of 20 places. It got around 6.1m installs in March, a similar amount to its February total.
