Q4 2023 U.S. Word Puzzle Games Performance Recap

As the year wrapped up, the word puzzle game category saw varied performance among its top contenders in the United States. Sensor Tower's data offers a closer look at how these games fared in downloads, revenue, and weekly active users.

Wordscapes by PeopleFun, Inc. experienced a notable uptick in weekly revenue reaching a peak of nearly $960K in the last week of December. Downloads surged to 384K in the same period, while weekly active users saw a high of 2.8M in the week of December 18th.

The New York Times Company's NYT Games: Word Games & Sudoku also witnessed a revenue peak in the last week of December with approximately $750K. Downloads reached over 210K, and weekly active users climbed to 1.8M towards the end of Q4.

For Joyteractive's Cryptogram: Word Brain Puzzle, despite having no revenue for certain weeks, there was a rise in downloads to nearly 293K in early October, gradually settling at over 152K downloads by the year's end. Weekly active users peaked at 441K in mid-October.

Word Search Explorer: Fun Game from PlaySimple Games Pte Ltd showed consistent revenue throughout the quarter with a peak of $23K in the last week of December. Downloads saw a high of 186K, and active users reached close to 892K, both in the final week of the year.

Lastly, Lion Studios Plus' Wordle! had a steady increase in revenue, ending at nearly $97K in the holiday week. The game's downloads peaked at over 181K in late November, while active users saw their highest at 394K in the third week of November.

For more detailed insights and data on the performance of word puzzle games and other app categories, Sensor Tower's platform remains an invaluable resource for market analysis.