Weekly Gaming Reports Recap: July 28 – August 1 (2025)

Reports of the week:

1. Games & Numbers (July 16 – July 30, 2025)

2. AppMagic: Top Mobile Games by Revenue and Downloads in July 2025

• Ready or Not sales reached 10 million. The console version sold over 1 million copies in the first 4 days.

• From Software reported that Elden Ring: Nightreign sold 5 million copies, and Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree – 10 million copies.

• Total revenue for Hero Wars: Dominion Era (desktop version of Hero Wars) exceeded $750 million. Since fall 2016, over 90 million users have registered for the game. In November 2024, reported revenue was $650 million.

• Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition sold 100,000 copies in its first 48 hours.

• Rematch saw 5 million players a month after release. This doesn’t represent sales as the game launched on Xbox Game Pass.

• EA reported that over 1 million players signed up for the Skate playtest. All will get invites by the end of the month.

• Over 400,000 people added PIONER to their Steam wishlist.

• Zynga reported the CSR series earned over $1 billion. The series reached 180 million players in 13 years.

• Pokemon Sleep generated $182.8 million in two years, per AppMagic. Since launch, monthly revenue hasn’t dropped below $5M.

• Hasbro earned $83 million in royalties from MONOPOLY GO! in H1’25.

• Game of Thrones: Legends made $23.6 million in its first year of operation. Revenue peaked in September 2024 at $2.9 million.

• Netease paid out over $13.9 million to creators of maps for Eggy Party in the past year.

• Uma Musume: Pretty Derby made $6.6 million in its first 18 days outside Japan. According to AppMagic, the US is the largest market outside Japan by revenue.

• TapNation’s project portfolio surpassed 1.5 billion downloads. Guess Their Answer and Doll Dress Up together attracted 150 million installs.

• My Talking Tom Friends 2 was downloaded over 10 million times a week after launch. Pre-order-to-download conversion exceeded 50%, a record for the studio.

• FIFA Rivals was downloaded over 1 million times, taking about a month for the project to reach that mark.

• Nintendo Switch 2 is selling three times faster than the original in Japan. According to Famitsu, 1.53 million systems were sold in the first month—it’s noted this likely doesn’t include direct Nintendo sales. This means the Nintendo Switch 2 beat the Game Boy Advance record, which sold 1.367 million units in its first month.

AppMagic provides revenue data net of store commissions and taxes. Revenue from Android stores in China is not included.

• Honor of Kings ($159M), Last War: Survival ($148.6M), and Whiteout Survival ($123.5M) led July in revenue.

• Honkai: Star Rail had a successful 3.4 update, $78.8M earned in July. This is the best result since March 2024, with revenue up almost 4x month-over-month.

• Kingshot continues its steady climb, setting a new revenue record at $51.5M in July. Most of the revenue (44%) came from the US.

• July was Delta Force’s best revenue month ever. The game earned $42.9M, with 96% from Chinese iOS. The game is also available on PC, with a console launch planned for August 19.

• Top downloads: Roblox (35.7M installs), Block Blast! (25.8M), and Subway Surfers (17.5M).

• Tile Explorer – Triple Match reached 15.5M downloads in July. Best ever month for the game from Chinese Learnings (studio name).

• My Talking Tom Friends 2 had 13.2M downloads in its debut month—ranked 9th.

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