Your eyes aren't deceiving you — the results have been tallied and August's top downloaded games have been carried over from July (with some minor movement on the overall list).
Let's see what we can gather from the shuffling that did happen.
First though, there’s what definitely hasn’t moved, and that’s Offline Games from its #1 overall spot. This collection of simple games and time wasters that are playable even in areas with poor or no internet service.
As the ranking shows, the game is most popular on Google Play, which in turn has a larger user base than iOS in regions where that's more common, including India - the games biggest market. Its 23M total estimated downloads were enough to keep it on top of the ranking, but were 6M less than July.
Subway Surfers stayed in its lane and ranked #2 again last month, generating 22M estimated new downloads just as in July. Another month with Subway Srufers not at the top of the list - this is strange!
Roblox stayed put at #3 with a similar total to the previous month with approximately 17M installs.
The final two games in the overall top five moved up from July to be here. Block Blast climbed two positions from #6 to #4. Free Fire also moved up two from #7 to #5. The latter once again added about 1M more downloads in August than its MAX version, which is intended for more powerful mobile devices.
According to our estimates, August saw overall game downloads decline by 20M globally, 12% below July's total of 167M. Summer is coming to a close and that means a sizable segment of the mobile player base heads back to class and home from vacations, and so the relatively small decline is largely seasonal.
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