Lucky Train and Price is Right Head Up This Week’s List of Emerging Facebook Games
This week’s AppData list of emerging games on Facebook, defined as those still under a million monthly active users, features remarkably few titles that fit into the typical farming, city and virtual space categories associated with social gaming.
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Top Gainers This Week – Games
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| Name | MAU | Gain | Gain,% | |
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| 1. | 880,337 | +189,126 | +27% | |
| 2. | Price Is Right Game (BETA) |
484,610 | +182,369 | +60% |
| 3. | 971,098 | +135,478 | +16% | |
| 4. | 652,116 | +104,118 | +19% | |
| 5. | 497,770 | +101,917 | +26% | |
| 6. | Sports Illustrated Fantasy Football |
526,025 | +98,131 | +23% |
| 7. | Juega al Truco |
266,426 | +95,039 | +55% |
| 8. | 275,817 | +84,631 | +44% | |
| 9. | 853,119 | +80,538 | +10% | |
| 10. | Woozworld |
189,418 | +78,707 | +71% |
| 11. | 461,834 | +75,066 | +19% | |
| 12. | 505,821 | +68,074 | +16% | |
| 13. | 神來也朋友村 |
115,701 | +64,971 | +128% |
| 14. | Social Park |
264,614 | +62,605 | +31% |
| 15. | Lady Popular |
334,042 | +62,447 | +23% |
| 16. | 408,948 | +56,213 | +16% | |
| 17. | Mahjong Trails |
200,889 | +54,800 | +38% |
| 18. | 870,614 | +51,421 | +6% | |
| 19. | TKO Deutschland |
170,161 | +44,651 | +36% |
| 20. | 126,195 | +41,635 | +49% |
Lucky Train, in the top spot, is one of the closest to a typical Facebook game, featuring a city-building theme with a somewhat unique train-based growth mechanic. The A Bit Lucky game should cross a million MAU by this time next week. Since we reviewed it, a few new features have also gone in, like non-player characters to route trains to (the game required interaction with humans when it started).

Price Is Right Game (BETA), by Ludia, should be an interesting one to watch. A few months ago, Family Feud (by a different developer, iWin) proved that titles based off retro game shows can get millions of users on Facebook. Price is Right is if anything a more hallowed name than Family Feud, so it’s in the realms of possibility that it, too, will take off — although the game hasn’t grown much for the past four days.
Going to number three, 開心魚塘 is a twist on the fish-raising genre, but it’s a Chinese-language game, which sets it apart from the pack. 神來也朋友村, at number 13, is also Chinese-language; it appears to place players in an interactive town.
Free Flash Games, at number four, is pretty much what it sounds like — a Flash games portal. Bubble Town: Party Planet, an arcade game by I-play, is more interesting. It’s most reminiscent of Wooga’s Bubble Island, a bubble-popping game with a level system based on different islands, which reached a peak of six million MAU.
Take a look over the rest of the list for more interesting finds, like the fantasy football games, Sports Illustrated Fantasy Football and Top Eleven Football Manager, and NanoStar Castles, the card-based RPG that Digital Chocolate recently began promoting; the game went more or less empty for almost four months until the company finished fixing technical flaws, and starting advertising for players.



September 3rd, 2010 at 12:12 pm
I don’t understand Lucky Train’s rise… there’s absolutely no game there! You load up trains. That’s it. ???
September 5th, 2010 at 7:02 am
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