How High Will Monopoly Go? The Highest Earning Games in the World
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March was a mega month for game revenue! I crunched the numbers and ranked the biggest winners.
Unlike with downloads, most incumbents were able to hold on to their spots in March - and earn more money!
Monopoly Go was the highest-earning mobile game in the world, again, in March. Our estimates show it earned $127M in net revenue from the App Store and Google Play. App Store net revenue, what Scopely takes after paying Apple its fees, rose above $100M for the first time.
China's King of Glory was right behind it with $119M in estimated net revenue. Keep in mind, this title is only available in China.
Royal Match, Peace Elite, and Candy Crush round out the top 5 highest-earning games in March, and if you compare it to February's list you'll notice it's identical but with each title earning a bit more.
Even though we saw a lot of shuffling in the downloads list revenue is much harder to advance. Until the next Monopoly Go comes out, of course.
Brawl Stars, which made its way into the downloads chart in March, is even more present on the revenue chart in March taking the 8th spot in the App Store and 10th spot overall. And, for the first time, earned more than Supercell's flagship earner Clash of Clans.
It's not that Clash of Clans dropped or anything, Brawl Stars' revenue has been growing rapidly this year. Let's see if it'll stick.
Together, the top 10 highest-earning games in March earned an estimated $759M in net revenue from the App Store and Google Play. A massive increase over February (which was a short month) and also over January. I expect the top 10 games to cross the billion mark later this year.
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All figures included in this report are estimated. Unless specified otherwise, estimated revenue is always net, meaning it's the amount the developer earned after Apple and Google took their fee.
