And look at the calibre of the games it beat in fourth and fifth: Roblox and Candy Crush Saga, two of the best-known games on the planet. The Fall Guys-alike came out of nowhere to finish as 2022’s third most-downloaded game. What an extraordinary, explosive year for Stumble Guys and Kitka Games.

Free Fire earned $443m in 2022, compared to PUBG Mobile’s massive $1.7bn. Garena’s battle royale doesn’t earn as much as PUBG, though – not even close. Free Fire’s 262m downloads in 2022 put it way ahead of PUBG Mobile’s 102m installs, which make it last year’s 15th most-downloaded game. Runner-up Garena Free Fire continues to outstrip PUBG Mobile by quite a distance as the most-downloaded battle royale on mobile. 2022 was a record IAP revenue year too with $16m earned, though of course there’s ad revenue to account for there as well. In 2021, installs took a hit and were down to ‘just’ 185m, but spiked again last year with a colossal, pandemic-beating 284m. In pre-pandemic 2019, annual Subway Surfers downloads were 224m, rising to a COVID-boosted 242m in 2020.

Creator Sybo has constantly found new ways to keep the installs rolling for a full decade, and is now under new ownership within Miniclip, which should strengthen its position even further.Īs CEO Mathias Gredal Nørvig told us in November, Subway Surfers has boosted installs through TikTok virality and an increased presence in China. Kudos to Subway Surfers, the most-downloaded game of 2022 ten years after it was first released. There’s commentary and more data on this top ten list below, and there’s further reading here: Here are the most downloaded games worldwide from the last twelve months, according to Appmagic.

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