Top Grossing Mobile Games in Southeast Asia for December 2022

The top grossing mobile game in Southeast Asia for December 2022 was Mobile Legends: Bang Bang from Moonton with close to $13.2 million in player spending, an increase of 1.5 percent year over year. 35.8 percent of Mobile Legends: Bang Bang’s revenue in Southeast Asia was from Indonesia, followed by 25.1 percent from Malaysia and 20.8 percent from Philippines. The full ranking of the top grossing mobile games for December 2022 is above. Game revenue estimates are from Sensor Tower’s Store Intelligence platform. Our estimate doesn’t include revenue from third-party android stores.

Garena Free Fire (including Garena Free Fire MAX) was the second highest earning mobile game in Southeast Asia for December 2022 with close to $7.9 million in user spending. 42.1 percent of Garena Free Fire’s revenue in Southeast Asia was from Thailand, followed by 32.2 percent from Indonesia and 15.7 percent from Malaysia. 

The next top grossing mobile games were Genshin Impact from COGONOSPHERE, Roblox and Honor of Kings from Tencent.

The Southeast Asia mobile games market generated an estimated $218 million from player spending across the App Store and Google Play in December 2022, marking a decrease of approximately 1 percent year over year. The No.1 market for Southeast Asia revenue in December 2022 was Thailand, which generated $49 million, or 22.6 percent of total player spending in Southeast Asia. Indonesia ranked No. 2 for revenue at 17.9 percent, followed by Singapore at 17.8 percent.

PUBG Mobile from Tencent generated over $4 million in Southeast Asia, a rise of 71 percent month over month. It is also the highest month over month increase among the Top 10. The surge in revenue was coincident with the release of RPM Season 18, which introduced two different costume sets, Sanguine Nightmare and Frore Warden, as well as a new companion Arctic Wolf to celebrate the holiday season. In December, Malaysia accounted for 42 percent of PUBG Mobile’s player spending in SEA, followed by Thailand at 20.5 percent and Indonesia ranked third at 12.9 percent.

Want to see how these rankings compare to the previous month? Check out the Top Grossing Mobile Games in Southeast Asia for November 2022 here.

Store Intelligence users can see app revenue and app download estimates for the above apps in addition to historical performance metrics on the Sensor Tower platform. Our revenue estimates are from the App Store and Google Play worldwide between December 1, 2021 and December 31, 2022 and represent gross user spending. These rankings do not include app revenue from third-party Android stores.