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Top 10 Global Popular Mobile Game Downloads in February 2022 from Sensor Tower

By Cecil Gao
Mar. 30, 2022 updated 02:10

Sensor Tower today released the report of the top 10 global mobile game downloads in February 2022, Now please dive with SuperPixel to see the full result.

Data shows that Garena's Free Fire topped the global mobile game download charts in February with 21.8 million downloads, up 22.7% compared to the same month last year. India was the top market for the game, contributing 41% of downloads, followed by Brazil with 9.4%.

SYBO Game’s Subway Surfers ranked No. 2 with nearly 19.5 million downloads, an increase of 45.3% compared to the same period last year. India was the most downloaded market with 18.8%, followed by Brazil with about 7.8%.

The other three games in the top five were in order Homa Game’s Merge Master, King’s Candy Crush Saga", and Roblox.

In February 2022, global mobile games were downloaded 4.4 billion times on App Store and Google Play, up 0.7% compared to last year. The Indian market ranked No.1 with 670 million downloads, accounting for 15% of total global downloads. The U.S. market ranked No.2 with 8.7% of downloads, followed by Brazil at 7.8%.

Goldfinch Studio’s Wordle received 6.7 million downloads in February, up 171% compared to last year, making it the highest download month to date. Although the game shares its name with Wordle, the popular web game acquired by The New York Times, there is no connection between the two. The game was launched in 2016 but had only 31,800 total downloads worldwide by the end of 2021. Thanks to the word-guessing game developed by Josh Wardle, in the first two months of 2022, the mobile game Wordle received more than 9 million downloads.

Meanwhile, Supercell's Clash of Clans had its best month of downloads since June 2019, with 6 million downloads in February, up about 48% compared to last year. The increase in downloads was due to optimization issues and the launch of a new hero extra health mechanic. With this mechanic, players can summon heroes to return to battle without the recovery time.