{"id":124216,"date":"2022-03-16T15:32:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T13:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=124216"},"modified":"2022-03-17T11:38:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T09:38:10","slug":"top-5-mobile-games-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/124216-top-5-mobile-games-of-all-time","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 mobile games of all time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The gaming industry generated a whopping <a href=\"https:\/\/newzoo.com\/insights\/articles\/the-games-market-in-2021-the-year-in-numbers-esports-cloud-gaming\/#:~:text=In%20fact%2C%20we%20initially%20forecast,%2B1.4%25%20over%20last%202020.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$180 billion<\/a> (R271 trillion) in worldwide revenue in 2021, which is more than the sports and movies industries combined.<\/p>\n<p>Mobile gaming accounts for just over 50% of the gaming industry\u2019s revenue, which is not much of a surprise considering there are 6.6 billion smartphone users in the world today.<\/p>\n<p>The mobile gaming market is a force of nature unto itself, and some titles have made trillions of rands thanks to a combination of charm and gameplay.<\/p>\n<p>The top five highest-grossing mobile games of all time are ranked below.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">5. Clash Of Clans (R11.6 trillion)<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Publisher: <\/strong>Supercell (Tencent)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Genre: <\/strong>Strategy<\/p>\n<p><strong>Release Date: <\/strong>August 2, 2012<\/p>\n<p>In<em> Clash of Clans, <\/em>you play as a chief of a village who is tasked with building a clan while fortifying his village with the resources he&#8217;s pillaged from other clans.<\/p>\n<p>These resources can also be used to upgrade your army so that you can defend your village and attack your friends and other online players.<\/p>\n<p>Although <em>Clash of Clans&#8217;<\/em> revenue peaked at R2.7 trillion in 2015, it can still be found in the top 10\u2019s on both the App Store and Google Play Store.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0Y5-lRHj8Hg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">4. Pok\u00e9mon Go (R11.69 trillion)<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Publisher: <\/strong>Niantic \/ The Pok\u00e9mon Company<\/p>\n<p><strong>Genre: <\/strong>Augmented reality<\/p>\n<p><strong>Release Date: <\/strong>July 6, 2016<\/p>\n<p>Combining augmented reality with one of the most popular franchises in the world resulted in a truly unique game.<\/p>\n<p><em>Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/em> incorporates the real world into the hunt for Pok\u00e9mon and was originally positioned as a family-friendly activity that would encourage people to leave the house and get some exercise.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, <em>Pok\u00e9mon Go <\/em>received some bad press after its unique mechanics resulted in a number of negative incidents such as players walking in front of on-coming traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Although this may have cooled the incredible hype levels when it launched in 2016, there are millions of players still active in 2022.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2sj2iQyBTQs\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">3. Puzzle &amp; Dragons (R12.9 trillion)<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Publisher: <\/strong>GungHo<\/p>\n<p><strong>Genre: <\/strong>Puzzle RPG<\/p>\n<p><strong>Release Date: <\/strong>February 20, 2012<\/p>\n<p><em>Puzzle &amp; Dragons <\/em>is a tile-matching game like <em>Candy Crush<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>However, this game has taken it one step further by adding a combat mechanism that you must perform simultaneously to matching tiles.<\/p>\n<p><em>Puzzle &amp; Dragons <\/em>was the first game to break $1 billion (R1.5 trillion) in revenue within its first year of being released.<\/p>\n<p>The game\u2019s success created a whole franchise, as it branched from mobile to console, had a spin-off game for Nintendo 3DS, and had an\u00a0 anime series created in its image.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zCX-Tz8KpXE\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">2. Monster Strike (R14.9 trillion)<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Publisher: <\/strong>Mixi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Genre: <\/strong>Strategy RPG<\/p>\n<p><strong>Release Date: <\/strong>August 8, 2013<\/p>\n<p><em>Monster Strike is evidently inspired by Pok\u00e9mon <\/em>as <em>its<\/em> gameplay requires players to throw their monsters at the enemy.<\/p>\n<p>Despite its domestic success in Japan, <em>Monster Strike <\/em>is relatively unknown at the international level, as the English version of the game was discontinued in 2017 due to its unpopularity.<\/p>\n<p>In Japan, however, the game is so popular that it was adapted into an anime series and an entire anime film trilogy.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LW1cAQZJaj8\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">1. Honor of Kings \/ Arena of Valor (R20.1 trillion)<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Publisher: <\/strong>Tencent<\/p>\n<p><strong>Genre: <\/strong>MOBA<\/p>\n<p><strong>Release Date: <\/strong>November 26, 2015<\/p>\n<p><em>Honor of Kings <\/em>is a MOBA game that was developed by the Chinese gaming giant Tencent.<\/p>\n<p>After its success in China, the game was adapted to suit the international market and was renamed <em>Arena of Valor<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Like many MOBA games, there are a variety of different characters and game modes to try out.<\/p>\n<p><em>Arena of Valor <\/em>has dominated the mobile market in the same way that <em>League of Legends<\/em> dominated on PC, and with a gross revenue of $2.45 billion (R3.6 trillion) worldwide in 2020 alone, it is the highest-earning mobile video game of all time.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ac-3S0Yzapw\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a title=\"Permalink to Big Xbox Cloud Gaming performance update for iPhone and iPad\" href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/124208-big-xbox-cloud-gaming-performance-update-for-iphone-and-ipad\" rel=\"bookmark\">Big Xbox Cloud Gaming performance update for iPhone and iPad<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some mobile titles have made trillions of rands thanks to a combination of charm and gameplay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"featured_media":124217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3199,1157],"class_list":["post-124216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-mobile-games","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124230,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124216\/revisions\/124230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}