Royal Match has become the most profitable mobile game in the world, beating Candy Crush Saga

The puzzle game Royal Match from Turkish startup Dream Games has become the highest-grossing mobile game this year worldwide. counted specialized resource Daya.ai. This game surpassed the long-time leader Candy Crush Saga, released by the Swedish-British developer King Digital Entertainment back in 2012, in terms of revenue.

After the success of Candy Crush Saga, King Digital Entertainment was purchased by a larger developer, Activision Blizzard, for $6 billion in 2016. In turn, Activision Blizzard itself was purchased by Microsoft in 2022–2023 for $69 billion. As noted Financial Timessince its launch in 2012, Candy Crush Saga spent only six months outside the global top 10 mobile games based on user revenue.

From January 2023 to October inclusive, the income received from Royal Match users doubled compared to the same period in 2022. The total income received from users of this game this year amounted to $2 billion. At the same time, the average monthly number of active users of Royal Match is 55 million people, while Candy Crush Saga has 160 million.

Dream Games was founded in 2019 by former top executives of another Turkish game developer, Peak Games, which was acquired by the larger US company Zynga in 2020. At the beginning of this year, Dream Games was valued at $2.75 billion, but now experts are confident that the company has significantly increased its value in the eyes of investors.

Evgeny Khvostik