Several New Titles Reach This Week’s List of Fastest-Gaining Facebook Games by DAU
If there’s any theme to this week’s AppData list of the fastest-growing Facebook games by daily active users, it’s that several of the titles are new — if not to Facebook, at least to our top 20 lists. Here’s the list:
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Top Gainers This Week – Games
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| Name | DAU | Gain |
Gain,% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |  Millionaire City |
2,073,078 | +256,585 | +14% |
| 2. |  ESPNU College Town |
253,552 | +202,834 | +400% |
| 3. |  開心魚塘 |
234,727 | +170,501 | +265% |
| 4. |  Mafia Wars Game |
4,269,328 | +103,525 | +2% |
| 5. |  Pet Society |
2,266,755 | +72,402 | +3% |
| 6. |  Madden NFL Superstars |
249,067 | +70,013 | +39% |
| 7. |  Fantasy Kingdoms |
115,846 | +53,066 | +85% |
| 8. |  Hunch |
54,511 | +50,946 | +1,429% |
| 9. |  Bingo Island 2 |
91,873 | +46,129 | +101% |
| 10. |  MMA Pro Fighter |
365,816 | +45,550 | +14% |
| 11. |  Pacific Poker |
42,409 | +37,988 | +859% |
| 12. |  德州撲克(中文版) |
932,239 | +33,880 | +4% |
| 13. |  Critter Island |
121,086 | +29,409 | +32% |
| 14. |  Car Town |
1,141,883 | +26,621 | +2% |
| 15. |  Crime City |
70,366 | +26,213 | +59% |
| 16. |  Mynet Çanak Okey |
87,365 | +24,977 | +40% |
| 17. |  Party Central |
28,766 | +22,358 | +349% |
| 18. |  Cupcake Corner |
121,673 | +19,526 | +19% |
| 19. |  Birdland |
227,844 | +18,863 | +9% |
| 20. |  War Of 2012 |
19,068 | +18,485 | +3,171% |
Millionaire City has finally hit the top of the list, and crossed two million DAU, making it Facebook’s tenth-largest game by that measurement.
In second, ESPNU College Town is the latest from Playdom. The game essentially repurposes the Social City / Age of Wonder concept to a college campus, using ESPN’s branding and real team and school names. Like the titles it takes after, ESPNU is growing fast.
Skipping past a few familiar titles, Fantasy Kingdoms is one of the games that’s newer to our list. The Sneaky Games title has been around since May, when we first reviewed it. Just under two weeks ago, it began growing, and has since doubled in size. This new growth is likely due to new promotion of the title by the company.
Bingo Island 2 and Pacific Poker have an obvious thematic connection, and they’re also by the same developer, Mytopia. As with Fantasy Kingdoms, the growth of the two virtual gambling apps looks like the result of new promotion.
Finally, Crime City is a brand-new game. While the name may make this game sound like another Mafia Wars retread, it’s actually fairly unique, combining the popular crime theme with city building and missions. Some effort obviously went into this title; unfortunately, we’re not yet sure who the developer is.
October 6th, 2010 at 10:10 am
Crime City is by the same guys who did World at War. But since their games are published through a string of proxy accounts, it’s kind of hard to track down what their company name actually is.
October 7th, 2010 at 12:13 am
On the Terms of Service it says “Funzio.com”.
October 7th, 2010 at 12:48 am
Crime City looks awesome … can’t wait to give it a try.
October 7th, 2010 at 1:09 am
Interesting — they may also be the folks behind Tap Zoo. Thanks guys.
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January 19th, 2011 at 3:50 am
Dont Play Crime city!..the developers are the same as those who developed World at war. World at war was abandoned by these developers and a lot of money was embezzled by these people!..check out World at war forum on facebook if you dont believe me! Funzio = cheaters!