Gangsters, Warriors and Card Games Reach This Week’s List of Top Emerging Games on Facebook

This Friday’s AppData list of top emerging Facebook games doesn’t have any new “graduates” to report — none of the games from last week’s list have yet passed a million users, the point at which we kick them off (and call them successful). However, there’s a solid set of growers that have returned, along with a couple potential new breakouts in Gangster City and Little Warrior.

To help spot the steady growers, about half of the games, we’ve colored them a brighter green:

Top Gainers This Week – Games
Name MAU Gain↓ Gain, %
1. icon Gangster City 459,799 +454,127 +98.77
2. icon Little Warrior 687,761 +291,986 +42.45
3. icon 開心寶貝 991,633 +282,715 +28.51
4. icon Band of Heroes 872,653 +130,145 +14.91
5. icon Rummy Royal 199,376 +96,652 +48.48
6. icon Frosmo 350,365 +90,242 +25.76
7. icon MiniPlanet 336,934 +84,211 +24.99
8. icon Sanalika 287,842 +73,274 +25.46
9. icon IQ Test 463,531 +72,488 +15.64
10. icon Spot The Difference 486,413 +63,810 +13.12
11. icon Ninja Warz 802,095 +61,225 +7.63
12. icon Temple of Mahjong 2 433,727 +59,389 +13.69
13. icon Poll 955,345 +53,956 +5.65
14. icon Little Rock Pool 451,568 +53,412 +11.83
15. icon The True Age Test 562,703 +49,772 +8.85
16. icon Flowers for Friends 402,451 +49,402 +12.28
17. icon Dress Me Up 400,511 +47,805 +11.94
18. icon Xx..Me 2 u bears..xX 281,162 +46,835 +16.66
19. icon COLLAPSE! 877,523 +41,786 +4.76
20. icon Bingo World 314,374 +41,169 +13.10

Is Gangster City, by Playfish, just another Mafia Wars clone? Not exactly: there are cut-scenes, music, a detailed story and other new aspects. We noted the game’s high level of polish when it launched, and it seems that players are responding well so far.

Next up is Little Warrior, a sort of rudimentary fighting game a bit like My Brute or the newly-released Killer Toon. The game has languished for some time, but got quite the bump in users over the past week, as you can see below.

開心寶貝 and Band of Heroes, the number three and four games, are both about ready to grow out of this list. There’s one big difference between them, though — the users of the former game are highly engaged, with about 39 percent of users returning, while Band of Heroes has low user engagement, suggesting that it may not be a lasting success.

Finishing off the top five, Rummy Royal is just what it sounds like: a way to play the Rummy card game on Facebook. Users seem to enjoy traditional games lately; there are two more just on this list, Temple of Mahjong 2 and Bingo World.

AppData - Facebook application stats and data from Inside Network

2 Responses to Gangsters, Warriors and Card Games Reach This Week’s List of Top Emerging Games on Facebook

  1. Kevin Scott says:

    Sense of interesting!

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