Tencent's Games Show Strong Growth in Asia-Pacific Mobile Game Market

TapTechNews May 20th news, SensorTower released the Insight into the Asia-Pacific Mobile Game Market in 2024 today, analyzing the trends of Chinese mobile games. Among them, many games under Tencent showed strong growth and ranked high on the China iOS mobile game best-selling list and download list.

Tencent's games such as Honor of Kings, Peace Elite, Teamfight Tactics, CrossFire, League of Legends: Wild Rift, and Meta Dream Star showed remarkable growth and ranked high on the China iOS mobile game best-selling list and download list. The income of Honor of Kings increased by 16% and remained the champion of the best-selling list, and the income of CrossFire increased by more than 3 times and ranked 4th in the income list.

Thanks to Tencent's Meta Dream Star and NetEase's Eggy Party, from January to April 2024, the download volume and income of arcade games in the China iOS market increased by 12% and 13% respectively. Meta Dream Star topped the overall China iOS download list on the first day of its launch and remained at the top for several weeks. Eggy Party has been the champion of arcade mobile game income in the China iOS market for five consecutive quarters.

After the release of the new interactive story game Love and Deep Space by Papergames, it immediately jumped to the top of the China iOS mobile game download list. By the end of April, the global income of this game exceeded 100 million US dollars (TapTechNews note: currently about 723 million RMB), and the proportion in the China iOS market was 65%, driving a 167% and 85% surge in the income and download volume of lifestyle mobile games.