The company’s website says it has more than 150 games in its portfolio, most accessible through desktop browsers and heavily tied to Facebook. King’s catalog of games includes standards like Solitaire and word games. You’ve likely played a couple in you life in a moment of boredom. King has been making games on the Internet for 10 years. King defies the conventional mobile-game wisdom of spreading your bets as bored consumers go from game to game to game. According to App Annie, the three publishers ahead of King-EA, Rovio, and Gameloft-on the App Store average 372 apps on the platform. Angry Birds maker Rovio has 30 apps for the iPhone/iPad and 15 for Android. Electronic Arts has 829 apps in the App Store and 121 on Google Play. King was in the top 10 in revenue for the month in both stores as well.Īnd King accomplished that with only three games in the App Store and two for Android. Yet, for May 2013, King ranked third in number of downloads on the App Store. What makes Candy Crush’s success more amazing is that its publisher,, has not historically had success in mobile. The top charts within the App Store and Google Play themselves have listed Candy Crush at or near the top for almost all of 2013.
Candy Crush also brought in the most revenue of games in the App Store for the month while coming in second (to a game called Puzzle & Dragons from Japan) in Google Play. Mobile analytics firm App Annie, which tracks downloads and revenue on both the Google Play store for Android and Apple’s App Store, has Candy Crush as the most downloaded game for May 2013 in both. But how did this game, which really has no discernible special features or original style of gameplay, become the overwhelming favorite among mobile gamers? And a new darling of mobile game publishers may have been born.Ĭandy Crush Saga, by United Kingdom-based games publisher, is the most downloaded game for both the iPhone and Android. A saga of sweet, sweet proportions has been unfolding on smartphones across the world over the last several months.
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