Gambling Madness, Islands and Mahjongg on This Week’s List of Emerging Facebook Games

This week’s crop of emerging games on Facebook is showing strong gains, higher on average than we’ve seen for several weeks. Each Friday, we source this list from AppData to show fast-growing games that still have fewer than a million players.

And, somewhat unusually, two of the top games are foreign: Okey Oyna is a Turkish social game, while Capitales del mundo! is in Spanish, and has to do with learning world capitals. You’ll also spot a few Chinese-language games on the list:

Top Gainers This Week – Games
Name MAU Gain↓ Gain, %
1. icon Okey Oyna 615,426 +433,066 +70.37
2. icon Roulette Madness 674,511 +426,778 +63.27
3. icon Capitales del mundo! 417,043 +345,884 +82.94
4. icon Tiki Resort 613,378 +338,504 +55.19
5. icon Poker Madness 637,020 +284,849 +44.72
6. icon Funflow 562,407 +252,157 +44.84
7. icon VIP Challenge 356,940 +245,676 +68.83
8. icon Bubble Island 507,703 +244,301 +48.12
9. icon Mahjongg Dimensions 400,042 +194,804 +48.70
10. icon Enchanted Island 434,004 +188,209 +43.37
11. icon Jewel Puzzle 2 308,492 +184,640 +59.85
12. icon Collect Roses 494,110 +175,433 +35.50
13. icon Jumping Dog 374,632 +168,264 +44.91
14. icon SuperPocus 560,688 +159,048 +28.37
15. icon 快打之王 654,065 +155,261 +23.74
16. icon Farkle 2 416,135 +153,051 +36.78
17. icon Absolute Solitaire 245,845 +143,286 +58.28
18. icon Fashion City 320,947 +136,587 +42.56
19. icon The Crazies Tower Defense 201,593 +129,189 +64.08
20. icon 主題學校 417,081 +126,229 +30.26

Number two is Roulette Madness, and as you might expect, it’s a pretty straightforward roulette game. That doesn’t mean it’s low quality, as the roulette wheel is crisp and well-animated; other visual elements closely resemble Zynga’s Texas HoldEm Poker. An even closer resemblance might be found in Poker Madness, at number five; it’s by the same developer. Various other games are also linked into Roulette and Poker, although it’s not clear if they all have the same ownership.

Tiki Resort was recently released by Playdom. The game is an entry into the “social tycoon” category, and so far it’s a success, although our own testing found that it’s a bit simplistic, focusing more on decorating an island than interesting gameplay.

Bubble Island is growing well; we reviewed the bubble-breaking game at its launch three weeks ago. And last Friday we wrote about the release of Mahjongg Dimensions, based on a traditional Chinese tile game, by Arkadium. So far, that game is on track to reach the million users its developer said it would have in March.

Down the list a bit you’ll spot SuperPocus, by Slide, whose SPP Ranch! Top Fish both recently graduated to over a million monthly average users. Look for a post later today in which we’ll explain how Slide has managed to grow its apps so quickly of late.

And even further down, in the next to last place, is The Crazies Tower Defense, yet another game that we recently reviewed. Keep an eye on this one — it’s not only based on an upcoming movie that may turn out to be a hit, it’s also a pretty solid entry in the tower defense genre.

AppData - Facebook application stats and data from Inside Network

3 Responses to Gambling Madness, Islands and Mahjongg on This Week’s List of Emerging Facebook Games

  1. John Mazo says:

    As a Native Spanish Speaker, I`m very happy that Capitales del Mundo is included in this list, all my friends have played it a lot this week.

  2. Greg says:

    Is there a reason why you don’t have a column for developer names? This is a great weekly table but I’m always combing through to see which developers are associated.

    Great job! Thanks!

  3. Chris Morrison says:

    Hey Greg — I often mention the developer name if it seems important. In the case of some like the “Roulette Madness” people, there’s no dev name.

    But that column still seems like a good idea; will mention it, thanks.

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