Top 30 mobile games of 2025 (so far)

What are the top 30 mobile games of 2025 so far? I thought you’d never ask! We’ve just updated the list. 2024 was a massive year for games, but it looks like 2025 could be even bigger.

A quick recap, based on Sensor Tower’s recent State of Mobile report. Last year, we:

• DOWNLOADED 258,000 apps per minute
• SPENT $285,000 per minute
• USED 13 minutes of every waking hour for apps and games
• ENJOYED an average of 7 apps each day

We spent $80 billion in games alone, and 4 games became billion-dollar games: more than $1 billion in revenue in a single year.

So which ones are looking hot for 2025?

Welcome to the top 30 games of 2025 so far, based on global data from Apptopia. We’ll look at the most downloaded games, but we’ll also look at games with the most revenue. That’ll give us both current popularity and long-term sustainability. And we’ll do it first with Android and iOS separate, and then look at the biggest games across both platforms.

Most downloaded mobile games so far in 2025

So far, according to Apptopia data, the top games of 2025 (so far) by downloads include some familiar names (hello Subway Surfers! hello 8 Ball Pool!) but also some new ones.

On Android, the leaders are:

1. Roblox
2. Block Blast!
3. Free Fire x NARUTO SHIPPUDEN
4. Subway Surfers
5. Mini Games: Calm & Relax
6. Horror Spranky Beats
7. Free Fire MAX
8. Cat Chaos: Prankster
9. My Talking Tom 2
10. Ludo King®

On iOS, the top 10 games so far by downloads are:

1. Block Blast!
2. Township
3. Squid Game: Unleashed
4. Roblox
5. Pokémon TCG Pocket
6. Last War:Survival
7. Perfect Tidy
8. Whiteout Survival
9. Subway Surfers
10. 8 Ball Pool™

So these are the most downloaded games right now in early 2025. That’s a list that is usually pretty volatile as different game publishers spend more or less to advertise their games to new players. It changes a lot. But it’s still a major accomplishment to appear on this list.

There are some pretty amazing things on this list:

• Roblox: released on iOS in 2012 and Android in 2014 … still a top-downloaded game
• Squid Game: this is a game developed by Netflix (not a traditional games publisher!) that is seeing some major success
• Free Fire x NARUTO SHIPPUDEN: this is a new and interesting kind of limited-time collaboration between Garena’s popular battle royale game, Free Fire, and the renowned anime series NARUTO SHIPPUDEN
• Mini Games: Calm & Relax: as the name suggestions, this is not 1 game but multiple mini games that do not require WiFi or a cellular connection, making it great for remote or network-challenged places.

Important question: are the most downloaded games really the top ones?

Each of these mobile games has tons of downloads, but number of installs alone can’t be enough to make the list of the top 30 mobile games of 2025 so far. Scale is good — getting a lot of installs is completely necessary for a game to be on top — but engagement and active players and actual usage is probably much more important. Perhaps 1 of the best measures of that is: will players buy stuff in those games?

So a good way to figure out what are the top games of 2025 so far is a combination of both: 

• Installs
  How many downloads a game gets
• Revenue
  How much money a game is generating

That combination is important. 

A top game should still be relevant to new players: it should be adding new people, or else it’s just slowly dying. Maybe that’s OK for a big studio: they’ve made their money. But it certainly takes them out of the top games sweepstakes. In addition, a top game should also keep existing players engaged, interested, and having fun for at least months, and preferentially years.

That makes it fresh enough for newbies, and still interesting for veterans.

Top games: iOS first, then Android, then combined

First, we’ll look at iOS.

iOS might seem globally almost irrelevant. After all, it accounts for about only about 30% of global devices and maybe a quarter of all app installs. But even so, iOS still takes credit for more than half of all in-app mobile revenue … because Apple owns market share in typically richer countries in North America, Europe, and certain parts of Asia.

Then we’ll look at Android, where about 75% of all global app and game installs happen, especially in massive Android-centric countries like India and China.

And finally, we’ll combine scores to arrive at an overall list of top 30 games of 2025 so far.

Note: this is global data. And I’m weighting the scores about 2:1 in favor of revenue as a stronger engagement metric than pure downloads or installs.

iOS: top 30 games of 2025 so far by downloads

Here are the top 30 mobile games on iOS by downloads so far in 2025

Royal Match is sticking in the top 30, and older games like Subway Surfers and 8 Ball Pool are still going strong. We’re also seeing Pokémon TCG Pocket do very well even as Pokémon Go subsides a little.

Block Blast! was #7 around this same time last year; now in 2025 it’s #1.

Android: top 30 games of 2025 so far by downloads

Here are the top 30 mobile games on Android by downloads so far in 2025:

There’s not as much overlap between the top games by downloads on iOS and Android as there was last year. Here are the games that show up on both lists:

1. Block Blast!
2. Pokémon TCG Pocket
3. 8 Ball Pool
4. Subway Surfers
5. Offline Games – No Wifi Games
6. Candy Crush Saga

Seeing duplicates makes sense on a lot of levels: good games rise to the top, big marketing budgets help make both the iOS and Android versions of a game to get popular, and everyone releases for both major platforms. But having fewer duplicates on both the iOS and Android lists might mean there’s increasing divergence happening here for top games of 2025.

There’s some interesting diversity here:

• Horror Spranky Beats: a rhythm-based mobile game that blends musical gameplay with horror elements
• Perfect Tidy: a cleaning challenge game (!!!)
• Township: a good old sim
• My Talking Angela 2: a virtual pet sim by the makers of Talking Tom
• Jelly Master: Mukbang ASMR: believe it or not, this game mashes up simulation, ASMR, the world of streaming and influencers, and mukbang (eating lots of food on-camera)

Top games on iOS by revenue

As we all know, revenue is an entirely different animal than downloads. You need downloads to get revenue, but you need much more: engagement, passion, longevity, and great gameplay.

Here are the top games on iOS by revenue in 2025 so far:

Interestingly, no fewer than 19 games are on the top revenue list but NOT on the top downloads list. In many cases, that’s because they are games that have been around for years, have a devoted following, and make huge revenues without having to spend massive amounts of marketing dollars. In others, it’s because casino and strategy/battle games have very high earning potential compared to more casual or hypercasual titles.

1. Dungeon & Fighter: Origin
2. Golden Shovel Battle
3. GeoGuess
4. CrossFire: Legends
5. Monster Strike
6. MONOPOLY GO!
7. Endless Winter
8. eFootball™
9. Pokémon GO
10. Room Escape Game-EXiTS-
11. Fate/Grand Order
12. Prospi A
13. Fantasy Westward Journey
14. Gakuen Idolmaster
15. Blackbox
16. Honkai: Star Rail
17. Coin Master
18. League of Legends: Wild Rift
19. Genshin Impact

Also, notice that if you want to have a top revenue game that lasts a long time, you need to put “GO” into the title: MONOPOLY GO! and Pokémon GO.

Top games on Android by revenue

While 21 games are on the highest-revenue but not most-downloaded for iOS, 25 are in the same scenario on Android:

1. Last War:Survival
2. Whiteout Survival
3. Royal Match
4. Fate/Grand Order
5. Monster Strike
6. Genshin Impact
7. Coin Master
8. Honkai: Star Rail
9. MONOPOLY GO!
10. Gakuen Idolmaster
11. Gardenscapes
12. Uma Musume Pretty Derby
13. Pokémon GO
14. eFootball™
15. Zenless Zone Zero
16. Blue Archive
17. GODDESS OF VICTORY: NIKKE
18. PUBG MOBILE
19. Puzzles & Survival
20. Township
21. Gossip Harbor: Merge & Story
22. Brawl Stars
23. Call of Duty: Mobile
24. Dragon Quest Walk
25. GIRLS’ FRONTLINE 2: EXILIUM

Combined iOS and Android: top 30 mobile games of 2025 so far

At last, here are the top 30 mobile games of 2025 so far based on their performance on both Android and iOS for number of installs plus total recent revenue, a proxy for players, usage, and engagement.

Notable new apps for 2025 include:

1. Pokémon TCG Pocket
2. Honkai: Star Rail
3. Uma Musume Pretty Derby
4. GeoGuessr
5. Pizza Ready!

Congratulations to those games for cracking the list. There are also some games that were top performers in 2024 and are still top performers so far in 2025, which is also deserving of congratulations:

1. Block Blast!
2. Candy Crush Saga
3. Coin Master
4. Gardenscapes
5. Roblox
6. Royal Match
7. Subway Surfers
8. Township
9. Whiteout Survival

Closing thoughts on the top games of 2025

My current favorite game is now 8 years old and didn’t make the list, although I see the publisher has a new game on the top list for 2025. So if your game didn’t make the list, you’re in good company. I’m there too.

I’m impressed by Roblox. It was third in 2024 and second in 2025. Maybe it’ll shoot all the way up to first in 2026?

And yes, there are plenty more ways to find and list the top games of any year, including 2025. This is just one of them. A good option would be to check all the game reviews of the year and see which ones are the highest rated by reviewers on Google Play and the App Store. 

It’s also interesting to think about why a game might make the most downloaded but not the most profitable lists, and vice versa. Top-grossing games, for instance, might be in a monetization phase: they’ve gathered a huge number of players, and now they need to make some money back for all their development and marketing. And top games by installs that don’t hit the top-grossing list might just be in a category that doesn’t monetize super well — casual games, I’m looking at you — or might be focusing on scale rather than revenue.

In any case, if your favorite game didn’t make the list, that’s probably because with so many millions of games in Google Play and the iOS App Store, there’s a lot of choice. There’s something for everyone.

And that’s probably a good thing!