Pirates and Cupcakes on This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Facebook Games by DAU

This week’s list of fastest-gaining Facebook games by daily active users holds an unusual number of mid-sized games that just keep growing, week after week. It’s led, though, by Pirates Ahoy, a new title by Electronic Arts.

Here’s the full AppData top 20:

Top Gainers This Week – Games
Name DAU Gain Gain,%
1. Original Pirates Ahoy 286,094 +261,556 +1,066%
2. Original Baking Life 1,051,448 +193,187 +23%
3. Original 守衛家園 195,915 +189,191 +2,814%
4. Original Fashion World 734,642 +187,424 +34%
5. Original Ninja Saga 916,979 +185,225 +25%
6. Original Fanglies 197,438 +122,483 +163%
7. Original Games 808,522 +94,727 +13%
8. App_2_347486061825_9369 Cafe Life 188,537 +91,853 +95%
9. Original 德州撲克 762,225 +58,130 +8%
10. Original Tarjetitas 130,869 +56,652 +76%
11. Original Nightclub City 845,726 +52,701 +7%
12. Original Ameba Pico 119,254 +50,917 +75%
13. Original Mall World 712,237 +45,438 +7%
14. Original Millionaire City 710,038 +44,084 +7%
15. Original My Vineyard 210,704 +42,014 +25%
16. Original World at War 145,839 +40,962 +39%
17. Original Kingdoms of Camelot 590,600 +37,709 +7%
18. Original Bloom Town 37,497 +35,245 +1,565%
19. Original FrontierVille 6,260,764 +33,360 +1%
20. Original Bejeweled Blitz 3,229,900 +32,005 +1%

We actually reviewed Pirates Ahoy on July 8th, but this is the first significant growth we’ve seen for the title. It appears that Playdom decided to take a couple weeks to work all the bugs out of Pirates before beginning to advertise for the title.

Baking Life is one of those aforementioned titles that has been around for a while but keeps growing. The ZipZapPlay restaurant management sim just topped a million DAU, which places it firmly within the ranks of significant games. Below it, you can see several more mid-sized titles with a similar growth profile: Fashion World, Ninja Saga, Nightclub City and Mall World, most notably. (Cafe Life, further down, is similar in its love for cupcakes.)

守衛家園, a new Chinese-language title from Boyaa, is worth a look for those that can navigate it. It’s a tower defense game with a twist; the area to be defended is a river, with boats traveling from one end to another through a hail of attacks.

Finally, there’s Fanglies, a new vampire-themed game from Playdom. We’ll likely see this game again on our Friday list of emerging titles, along with some of the other new games shown.

AppData - Facebook application stats and data from Inside Network

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