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The ISG Top 25 Facebook Games for July 2009
July 2nd, 2009
| By Christopher Mack | 18 Comments » |
Each month, it seems like there are a few surprises in store on the Facebook gaming charts. Back at the start of June, we saw a number of new titles appear within the Top 25. One in particular, Farm Town, debuted at #4 with nearly 8 million monthly active users. It just goes to show that even today, with Facebook’s viral channel allocation limits in place, new games can still become popular once word starts to spread.
Of course, distribution has always been an issue for new companies with no marketing budget, but Farm Town shows that things can still grow without a lot of initial spend. This month, Zynga is hot on the heels of Farm Town with its own new farming release, FarmVille.
The highlights from this month’s Top 25 Facebook Games:
- FarmVille, the newest farming game from Zynga, is debuting all the way at #8 with just over 5 million users. Zynga has been heavily promoting FarmVille inside its other games, and goes to show just how strong its cross promotional muscle really is.
- In another surprise, MindJolt Games moved from #6 to #4 with a gain of over 4 million active users this month. It surpassed YoVille (who now holds #6) as well as newcomer Farm Town (who got bumped to #5).
- As expected (and predicted) the Sim-like Restaurant City continues its steady rise in the rankings. With a gain of over 1.6 million MAY, the latest Playfish title tallies in at 5,861,728. Will it overtake Pet Society in the future? The gap is closing.
- PopCap’s Bejeweled Blitz jumped from #13 up to #11 despite its simplicity and Metrogames‘ Biotronic increased drastically in standing, moving from #21 to #15. The game now has 3,398,277 monthly actives.
- Metrogames’ other title, Waka-Waka, jumped three places with a gain of over 1 million to 3,109,541 players in the last month.
- Chain Rxn, on the other hand, seems like it is going to be a fad – it faded drastrically from #11 to #21.
- Two new titles make their debut as a new game from TheBroth, Inc. Barn Buddy appears at #18 with almost 3.2 million MAU, and Pillow Fight, by Shikha, shows up at #23 with about 2.6 million.
For the second month in a row, new games have appeared on the Top 25 charts. While the latter, Pillow Fight, seems like it could be short lived, it goes to show that new developers can be successful on the Facebook Platform. Out of all the latest numbers, we think the most interesting to watch will most likely be Bejeweled Blitz, Biotronic, and Restaurant City. Much more coming soon.
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July 2nd, 2009 at 9:54 am
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July 2nd, 2009 at 2:59 pm
should be no surprise with Mindjolt
Every week I receive and email from Mindjolt letting me know about their new games.
While they benefited from being the first games “portal” on Facebook. They have recognized the power of fans as an email marketing platform.
July 3rd, 2009 at 2:51 am
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July 5th, 2009 at 11:32 pm
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July 8th, 2009 at 1:09 am
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July 8th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
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July 9th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
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July 15th, 2009 at 9:39 am
[...] with Farm Town (which actually debuted at #4 in the Top 25 two months ago and is still pretty popular today). Though it wasn’t an original concept, the virtual farming game was still pretty good. Now, [...]
July 31st, 2009 at 11:26 am
[...] is arguably the fastest growing Facebook game ever, thanks to targeted performance advertising and heavy cross-promotion throughout the Zynga network. Zynga’s CEO Mark Pincus said in a recent interview, “We do spend [...]
August 3rd, 2009 at 7:35 am
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August 22nd, 2009 at 6:21 am
[...] settimane dal suo lancio, Farmville è riuscito già a raggiungere l’ottava posizione nella classifica dei giochi più usati su Facebook, relativa allo scorso mese di giugno. Per intenderci, colossi come Pet Society e [...]
November 1st, 2009 at 5:10 am
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November 10th, 2009 at 11:44 am
[...] game, already popular in web and download form, has been steadily growing, and recently reached more than 10 million monthly active users, with around a third of [...]
January 16th, 2010 at 11:57 am
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January 21st, 2010 at 1:09 am
what about funcity? (http://apps.facebook.com/gamefuncity)
February 6th, 2010 at 3:10 am
I am so sick of all these mob wars clones and *ville games. Its hard to find a good facebook game game that isnt just about grinding.
March 3rd, 2010 at 4:06 pm
[...] been on Facebook for years, and regularly appears on our weekly lists of apps that are gaining the most new users. The new plans is to make MindJolt an even bigger platform for independent casual game [...]