Top 25 Facebook Games MAU
"Will nothing end the indomitable tyranny that is CityVille?" cried the legions of social game developers as they watched Zynga's behemoth top the Facebook game charts for the fourth consecutive month. Inside Social Games has posted the Top 25 Facebook games for April 2011, thanks to AppData. Is anyone surprised that Zynga holds seven of the top 10 spots including CityVille at the top once again? Can I move on then? Thanks.
If you hadn't noticed, Inside Social Games has change how it tracks the Top 25: Now the list is separated into two for MAU and DAU, or monthly players and daily players, because of the increasing importance of daily players to social game developers. (And something PopCap has been crying about for awhile.)
So, the most interesting changes on the MAU end of things start with Bejeweled Blitz climbing three spots to number seven thanks to a 2.7 million boost in monthly players. Then, you'll notice that LOLapps snuck into the Top 10 this month just under PopCap with Ravenwood Fair in eighth place. The game has been on a steady climb since the beginning of the year, and this month Ravenwood Fair sees 591 thousand more faces.
There's only rookie addition to the Top 25 Facebook games this month: Zuma Blitz, one our personal favorites for 2010. The game enters the chart at 23rd place. And check out the amount of smaller games studios that moved up the ladder, while Playdom is nowhere to be found even after releasing a new game with another one the way. Hopefully, we'll see their rise on the monthly charts in May.
Top 25 Facebook Games DAU
The brand new DAU, or daily players, chart tells an entirely different story. In the daily players game, Zynga is still king. But it better watch out for PopCap who soared from the 10 spot to fifth place thanks to over 205 thousand new daily players. And while much of the middle of the chart is mostly the same, the lower introduces some international combatants. A seemingly Chinese social game with no named developer takes 17th place, while Elex, another Chinese developer, trails in the 18 spot. A dastardly Facebook app, Daily Horoscope, creeps into this list at number 20 with just under 1.1 million users. FInally, the list rounds out with SNSplus, another Chinese developer.
The main takeaway from this month's list is that there is a major different between MAU and DAU, and the future of these charts will respect that. Not to mention the amount of disruption going on between the power players for second place--so much so that Playdom has gone missing. Is Disney's social game division out of the picture for good, or is it biding its time with Deep Realms and soon Gardens of Time? Check back in May for the answer. But stop reading until then! We'll get lonely.
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