A New Shakeup at the Top - The Most Downloaded Games in the World
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Between the top downloaded and highest earning charts, it's the former that typically sees the most turnover as games that've held a long-standing spot at #10 or higher finally slip and cede ground to a new batch of popular titles. That's definitely what happened in February, as four fresh games entered the top 10 by downloads globally, knocking some well-known names down the rankings, and with one making the top five.
Despite the shakeup that happened down-chart, SYBO's unstoppable Subway Surfers remained steady at #1 overall. The game has more or less become one every new smartphone owner — especially on Android — knows about and downloads when they start browsing the app stores for the first time.
#2 Block Blast is one of those aforementioned titles that manages to cling to a top spot for months or even years in some cases, and in February it stayed put, as did #3 Roblox. It's worth noting that while these games didn't slip in the ranking, they both saw about 3M fewer downloads last month than they did in January. We'll talk a little more about the overall performance of the top 10 in a moment.
First, however, there was a new title at #4 last month — 456 Run Challenge from Amobear Studio. Its sudden debut so high on the rankings shouldn't come as much of a surprise, given it's an unofficial take on the premise of Squid Game and named after its central character, Player 456. It edged out another popular, but well established, hyper casual title that landed at #5, Hole.io from Voodoo.
We mentioned both Block Blast and Roblox posting lower total downloads in February versus the first month of 2025, and that actually was true for the top 10 overall. In total, the combined App Store and Google Play top 10 equaled 130M estimated downloads, representing a drop of about 7% from the 140M downloads the highest ranking games accounted for in January.
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