

Roblox has maintained its position in the top five games in the US since Q2 2020, with Q3 2021 being its best-ever position at number 2 for App Store downloads. Over 85 per cent of its downloads were from the App Store, with only 15 per cent from Google Play. In the US, Pokémon Unite was the most downloaded game across both app marketplaces, exceeding 7 million installs. In comparison, on Google Play the most installed game globally released this quarter was My Talking Angela 2, which accumulated approximately 55 million downloads. Free Fire has remained in the top five mobile games for the past six quarters with India as its top market.įor the App Store, Pokémon Unite was the most downloaded mobile game, despite being released towards the end of the quarter on September 22nd, picking up 18 million downloads in nine days. PUBG Mobile was followed by My Talking Angela 2 from Outfit7 and Garena Free Fire from Garena. PUBG Mobile was last at the top of the global download charts in Q4 2018. PUBG Mobile downloads suffered a decline following the removal of the game from India’s app marketplaces from Q3 2020 to Q2 2021.

Overall the most downloaded mobile game worldwide across both marketplaces for Q3 2021 was Tencent’s PUBG Mobile, which was spurred by the release of Battlegrounds India. In comparison, game downloads on Google Play exceeded 11.5 billion, a decrease of 2.6 per cent year-on-year. Game downloads on the App Store reached 2.1 billion installs, a decrease of 8 per cent year-on-year. Mobile games were the most downloaded app category across the App Store and Google Play. Sensor Tower has released its Q3 2021 Data Digest which covers the period of July 1st to September 30th 2021.
