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The Top Grossing Mobile Games and Publishers of 2023

Thick Thighs Save Lives

NeoGAF's Physical Games Advocate Extraordinaire
According to Appmagic data, Honor of Kings is once more the top grossing game worldwide on iOS and Android – and by some distance.

Tencent’s monster MOBA earned an estimated $1.48bn in 2023, over $300m more than closest rival PUBG Mobile, which is also published by Tencent.

Genshin Impact and Candy Crush Saga swapped places this year, with King’s puzzler leapfrogging Mihoyo’s hit action-RPG, though both were down year-on-year revenue-wise. And arguably the biggest story of 2023 was the trio of new entries in the top ten: Royal Match, Honkai: Star Rail and Monopoly Go.


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According to Appmagic, Tencent is of course the top grossing mobile game publisher of 2023, and is followed by NetEase and Playrix for the fourth year running.

Mihoyo and King remain in fourth and fifth, while Monopoly Go and Royal Match’s rampant success saw Scopely up 14 places to sixth and Dream Games up 22 spots to ninth.

Supercell saw one of the biggest year-on-year drops, falling from 7th place in 2022 to 11th last year.


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Full analysis and commentary can be found in the two articles posted below:

 

Doom85

Member
Glad to see Honkai Star Rail doing so well. Awesome game with so much content and it respects its fans much more than Genshin Impact does.

The salt from certain Genshin fans when 5 star Dr. Ratio was announced to be free for Star Rail players as thanks due to winning Best Mobile Game at TGA was so hilarious. Don’t be mad at us and our game; be mad at your developers for not understanding what a celebration reward should actually entail.
 

Generic

Member
Glad to see Honkai Star Rail doing so well. Awesome game with so much content and it respects its fans much more than Genshin Impact does.

The salt from certain Genshin fans when 5 star Dr. Ratio was announced to be free for Star Rail players as thanks due to winning Best Mobile Game at TGA was so hilarious. Don’t be mad at us and our game; be mad at your developers for not understanding what a celebration reward should actually entail.
Interesting. I will give it a look.
 
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