Top 30 mobile games for summer 2025

What are the top 30 mobile games for summer 2025? We’ve just updated the list with all the hottest game that have the most downloads and the highest revenue.

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

• 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 for summer 2025, based on global data from Apptopia.

• We’ll list the most downloaded games
• We’ll also list the highest revenue games
• We’ll do it separately for iOS and Android
• Then we’ll combine the lists to give us the biggest games across both platforms

Let’s get started with the top 10 best of the best … and what’s changed since early 2025.

Top 10 most downloaded mobile games in Q2 2025: what’s changed?

So far, according to Apptopia data, the top games for summer 2025 by downloads include some familiar names but also some new ones.

On Android, the leaders are:

New entries include Dream11: Fantasy Cricket App, Free Fire: 8th Anniversary, Cricket League, Pizza Ready, and Brainy Prankster. Games that dropped out of the top 10 on Android include: Mini Games: Calm & Relax, Horror Spranky Beats, Cat Chaos: Prankster, and My Talking Tom 2.

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

New entries this quarter include Color Block Jam, Kingshot, Royal Kingdom, Vita Mahjong, and Royal Match. Dropouts include Squid Game: Unleashed, Pokémon TCG Pocket, Perfect Tidy, Whiteout Survival, and 8 Ball Pool.

Plenty of churn? Sure …

That’s a decent amount of churn in the top 10 mobile games from quarter to quarter: 5 new games on iOS, and 5 new games on Android. In each case, half of the top 10 changed.

On iOS, Block Blast, Last War: Survival, Township, and Roblox stayed impressively steady in the top echelon of games downloaded. On Android, Block Blast, Roblox, and Subway Surfers maintained high ranking, while Ludo King jumped all the way from 10th to third.

But … are the top 10 most downloaded games really the best?

Each of these mobile games has millions of downloads in the last 90 days, but number of installs isn’t everything, right? Sure: getting a lot of installs is important for a game to be on top — but engagement and active players and actual usage is probably more important.

Maybe 1 good measuring stick for that: do 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.

Sure, iOS accounts for about only about 30% of global devices and maybe a quarter of all app installs. But iOS still gets more than half of all in-app mobile revenue … mostly because Apple owns market share in typically richer countries and among richer demographics even in poorer countries.

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 for summer 2025 so far by downloads AND revenue

Here are the top 30 mobile games on iOS by downloads and the top 30 by revenue for summer 2025:

Only 8 games show up in both the top downloads and top revenue lists:

1. Township
2. Gardenscapes
3. Pokémon TCG Pocket
4. Whiteout Survival
5. Royal Match
6. Candy Crush Saga
7. Honor of Kings
8. Last War: Survival

Games that are in the top 30 for downloads only tend to be casual or hyper-casual games, maybe puzzle games. They tend to be monetized more by ads than in-app purchases, and they tend to have lower player spend. That includes games like Roblox, Subway Surfers, Magic Tiles, and so on.

Games that are in the top 30 revenue list tend to be more midcore or hardcore games. They tend to be RPG or strategy games with a heavy live-ops focus and a hybrid monetization strategy with in-app purchases as well as ad revenue. They may have collector-driven monetization, and are targeted at higher-paying players.

Android: top 30 games for summer 2025 so far by downloads AND revenue

Here are the top 30 mobile games on Android by downloads and the top 30 by revenue forn summer 2025:

While on iOS there’s almost a 27% overlap between top downloads and top revenue, on Android there’s only a 10% overlap. Only 3 games appear on both lists:

1. Roblox
2. Township
3. Mobile Legends: Bang Bang

Again, most of the top downloaded games op download games are hyper-casual or casual titles, and rely on ads for monetization, not in-app purchases (examples: Block Blast, Cricket League, Pizza Ready).

Games that dominate the Android highest-revenue lists tend to be gacha, RPG, strategy, or competitive multiplayer games like Fate/Grand Order, Genshin Impact, and Monster Strike. These games encourage repeat spending to level up or collect the best items, and often have rare or collector items.

(Gacha games use a randomized reward mechanic similar to toy vending machines called “gachapon” in Japan. Players spend in-game currency to receive random virtual items like characters, weapons, or upgrades.)

Combined iOS and Android: top 30 mobile games for summer 2025

At last, here are the top 30 mobile games for summer 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.

There’s a lot of overlap: good games tend to attract loyal players. 21 games out of the 30 appear in both quarters. That’s a 70% overlap, which suggests strong franchise durability and consistently high performance.

Some notable evergreen games include:

• Roblox (#2 → #3)
• Royal Match (#5 → #2)
• Whiteout Survival (#4 → #1)

Others that have strong monetization models and consistent long-term engagement include Candy Crush Saga, Monster Strike, Honor of Kings, Pokémon GO, and Honkai: Star Rail.

Some games that ranked last quarter dropped out. Some of these were event-driven titles or did not sustain monetization. Some may have made the the list briefly due to spikes rather than sustained success, although it’s possible we’ll see a return of any or all of them.

1. Gakuen Idolmaster
2. Golden Shovel Battle
3. Free Fire x NARUTO SHIPPUDEN
4. Endless Winter
5. Pizza Ready!
6. Genshin Impact
7. 8 Ball Pool™

Some games that made the list this quarter but not last quarter or jumped higher in the standings include:

1. Whiteout Survival: #4 → #1
2. Royal Match: #5 → #2
3. Township: #20 → #12
4. Pokémon TCG Pocket – Card Game
5. Subway Surfers
6. GeoGuessr
7. Uma Musume: Pretty Derby
8. SD Gundam G Generation Eternal
9. Frozen City
10. Teamfight Tactics
11. Vita Mahjong

The top of the list is increasingly dominated by monetization-optimized games with live ops, while high-download, low-ARPDAU games rarely crack the top 10 unless they also monetize well (such as Royal Match or Whiteout Survival).

Games that dominate tend to include:

• Strong revenue-heavy games
  Usually RPGs/strategy like Honor of Kings, Monster Strike, Honkai: Star Rail, Fate/Grand Order, Uma Musume, or SD Gundam
• Strong blend games
  Like Roblox, Whiteout Survival, Royal Match, Township, or MONOPOLY GO!
• Strong download-driven games
  Monetize via ads or volume like Block Blast!, Subway Surfers, or Vita Mahjong

As always, top games are doing something very impressive. It’s super-challenging to rank among the best in the world.

Closing thoughts on the top games for summer 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.

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!

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