List of highest-grossing mobile games
This is a list of the highest-grossing mobile games. This is a list of mobile games that have generated at least $100 million in gross revenue. The video game company with the highest number of titles on the list is Tencent, which publishes and/or owns 12 games on the list, including four in the top ten. The top-grossing mobile game is Honor of Kings (2015), also known as Arena of Valor internationally, a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game published by Tencent. Five other Tencent titles on the list are from their subsidiary Supercell.
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The highest-grossing mobile app of all time was previously Mixi's Monster Strike (2013), a role-playing physics puzzle//strategy video game that had grossed over $7.2 billion in worldwide revenue by October 2018. The highest-grossing mobile app before that was Puzzle & Dragons (2012), a role-playing puzzle video game from GungHo Online Entertainment that had earned $7 billion up until October 2018, when it was surpassed by Monster Strike.[1]
List
See also
Notes
- Honor of Kings / Arena of Valor
- Monster Strike:
- Puzzle & Dragons:
- Pokemon Go:
- Candy Crush Saga:
- PUBG Mobile / Game for Peace
- Fate/Grand Order (FGO)
- Garena Free Fire:
- Fantasy Westward Journey:
- Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle
- Lineage 2: Revolution
- Coin Master:
- Marvel Contest of Champions:
- Knives Out:
- Granblue Fantasy (Japan) – ¥77.74 billion+ ($754.2 million+)[62]
- Dragon Quest Walk:
- The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls: Starlight Stage (Japan) – ¥54 billion+ ($524 million+)[74]
- Call of Duty: Mobile
- The Seven Deadly Sins: Grand Cross
- Blade & Soul Revolution:
- Perfect World Mobile:
- Candy Crush Jelly Saga:
- Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū (Japan)
- 2017 (January–October) – ¥17.2 billion[63] ($155 million)
- White Cat Project (Japan)
- 2017 (January–October) – ¥14.9 billion[63] ($134 million)
- BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! (Japan)
- One Piece: The Road of the Strong (China)[99]
- 2016–2018 – CN¥684.008 million ($103.39 million)
- January–June 2019 – CN¥72.208 million ($10.45 million)
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