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STORE INTELLIGENCE · CRAIG CHAPPLE · MAY 2021
Top Grossing Mobile Games Worldwide for April 2021
See the top grossing mobile games worldwide for April 2021 according to Sensor Tower data.
The top grossing mobile game worldwide for April 2021 was Honor of Kings from Tencent with $258.8 million in player spending, which represented 38.4 percent growth from April 2020. Approximately 96 percent of Honor of Kings’ revenue was from China, and its localized version of the title, Game for Peace, followed by 1.7 percent from Thailand and 1.2 percent from Taiwan. The full ranking of the top grossing mobile games for April 2021 is above. Game revenue estimates are from Sensor Tower’s Store Intelligence platform.
PUBG Mobile from Tencent was the second highest earning mobile game worldwide for April 2021 with $237.7 million in gross revenue. About 60 percent of PUBG Mobile’s revenue was from China, followed by approximately 11 percent from the United States. The next top grossing app was Uma Musume Pretty Derby from CyberAgent, followed by Roblox from Roblox Corporation and Coin Master from Moon Active.
While Honor of Kings has long been one of the world’s top revenue generating mobile games, the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns has propelled player spending to new heights. In 2020, player spending was up more than 50 percent year-over-year to $2.6 billion. Monthly revenue continues to increase and April 2021 marked its best month ever on the App Store and Google Play. From January to April, Honor of Kings had already generated close to $1 billion.
Analyzing how the mobile games market at large is performing since the initial wave of global lockdowns that took place in Q1 and Q2 2020, we can see that player spending was up 10.8 percent year-over-year in April 2021, with the App Store and Google Play generating $7.2 billion combined worldwide. While many parts of the world continue to enforce various social restrictions, the mobile games sector continues to grow as some lockdowns are eased, suggesting, so far at least, that the sector can maintain last year’s outsized performance.
Want to see how the rankings compared to the previous month? Check out the Top Grossing Mobile Games Worldwide for March 2021 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 April 1, 2020 and April 30, 2021 and represent gross user spending. These rankings do not include app revenue from third-party Android stores.
