Sensor Tower shop intelligence data shows that Miniclip’s SYBO Games’ Subway Surfers topped the global mobile game download charts in March with nearly 20 million downloads.
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India was the top market for Subway Surfers, contributing 23.4% of downloads, followed by Brazil and the US with 7.3% and 6.4% respectively.
The other four games in the top five were Free Fire, Roblox, King’s Candy Crush Saga and Gametion’s Ludo King.
On the Apple App Store, NetEase’s Egg Boy Party was ranked number one on the download chart, overtaking Roblox.
The report said that in March 2023, there were 4.5 billion downloads of handheld games worldwide on the App Store and Google Play, up 9.7% year-on-year (only first-time installs from App Store or Google Play accounts are counted). The Indian market ranked 1st with 830 million downloads, accounting for 18.5% of the global total. The US ranked 2nd with 8.1% of downloads and 3rd was Brazil with 8%. i
