City Builders and Strategy Do Well on This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Facebook Games by MAU
FrontierVille once again leads our weekly list of fastest-gaining Facebook games by monthly active users with two million new users, pushing it across the 20 million MAU mark, as Zynga took pains to announce on Thursday. However, the game still has a ways to go before it reaches 27 million MAU, which marked Zynga’s high point earlier this year with Treasure Isle.
From here it’s difficult to tell whether FrontierVille will reach that point, especially since Facebook is a few days behind on updating its stats; for the same reason, note that growth falsely appears a bit low this week. Here’s the full AppData list:
| Name | MAU | Gain |
Gain, % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |  Element Analyst Creator |
2,711,832 | +2,150,378 | +383.00 |
| 2. |  FrontierVille |
20,735,154 | +2,046,053 | +10.95 |
| 3. |  Millionaire City |
3,933,586 | +697,906 | +21.57 |
| 4. |  SuperFun Town! |
1,428,240 | +503,303 | +54.41 |
| 5. |  EA SPORTS FIFA Superstars |
4,892,926 | +464,796 | +10.50 |
| 6. |  Verdonia |
3,584,918 | +395,363 | +12.40 |
| 7. |  建立你的測驗 |
707,867 | +356,098 | +101.23 |
| 8. |  Kingdoms of Camelot |
3,030,739 | +315,516 | +11.62 |
| 9. |  Baking Life |
3,486,467 | +309,847 | +9.75 |
| 10. |  Hero World |
1,529,422 | +259,068 | +20.39 |
| 11. |  Fashion World |
2,339,798 | +256,728 | +12.32 |
| 12. |  Resort World |
1,373,899 | +250,385 | +22.29 |
| 13. |  Office Wars |
517,611 | +211,306 | +68.99 |
| 14. |  Fanglies |
268,063 | +204,378 | +320.92 |
| 15. |  Bejeweled Blitz |
10,786,832 | +201,446 | +1.90 |
| 16. |  Casino City |
904,293 | +194,022 | +27.32 |
| 17. |  Gift Creator |
4,601,094 | +190,675 | +4.32 |
| 18. |  開心 Lounge Bar |
833,258 | +185,247 | +28.59 |
| 19. |  Horse Saga (renamed) |
719,454 | +172,702 | +31.59 |
| 20. |  Zoo Kingdom |
1,582,532 | +164,549 | +11.60 |
Millionaire City continues to grow, offering the promise of single-handedly making developer Digital Chocolate a major social gaming player. It’s now Facebook’s fourth-largest city building sim. Note that SuperFun Town!, the next app down with half a million new MAU, is in the same category.
EA SPORTS FIFA Superstars comes in at fourth, with decent growth and the answer to a question: yes, the soccer game can continue growing after the World Cup is over (the final match took place on July 11th).
It’s also interesting to see Verdonia and Kingdoms of Camelot coming in alongside each other — both are fairly intensive strategy games. We recently wrote more about the breakout of strategy on Facebook.
And at number eight, RockYou’s Hero World appears to be staging a comeback. It has a long climb ahead if it’s to reach previous heights, though; the app topped out in February with over seven million MAU.
July 19th, 2010 at 6:44 pm
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July 20th, 2010 at 2:36 pm
Frontierville isn’t actually #1, Element Analyst Creator is. How come there is no mention of that app. Seems like that would be more interesting than talking about Frontierville. It seems like it must be spamware but why FB allows it or what they’re doing sounds more interesting to me than rehashing Zynga’s ability to cross-promote/spend a zillion $ on ads/etc.
July 20th, 2010 at 3:24 pm
Christian — I removed Element Analyst from this list because it’s miscategorized. This is a list (and blog) about games.
I did cover it over on Inside Facebook, though: http://www.insidefacebook.com/2010/07/19/create-your-quiz-rises-to-become-facebooks-third-largest-app-by-mau-on-this-weeks-list-of-fastest-growers/
August 1st, 2010 at 12:47 am
Frontierville is one of the best games on Facebook.
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