We can’t go a week without talking about Ravenwood Fair, as increasingly sophisticated game has been taking the Facebook gaming world by storm over the last month. With another week of big gains for LOLapps’ breakout game, Ravenwood leads the pack this week after excluding Daily Horoscope and Birthday Cards (which are not actually games). It gained another 592,949 players this week, bringing it up to over 10.6 million monthly active users.

Gaia Online’s Monster Galaxy is another hot title to watch, as it almost tied Ravenwood Fair in the number of new players this week. According to AppData, our tracking service for monitoring the traffic of the top Facebook games, 592,312 new players enjoyed the Pokemon-style RPG.

Top Gainers This Week – Games

Name MAU Gain Gain,% 1. Daily Horoscope 1,459,511 +920,499 +171% 2. Birthday Cards 6,990,584 +864,357 +14% 3. Ravenwood Fair 10,618,282 +592,949 +6% 4. Monster Galaxy 6,654,969 +592,312 +10% 5. Diner Dash 1,445,174 +514,722 +55% 6. Glory of Rome 1,269,759 +388,082 +44% 7. Gourmet Ranch 997,265 +294,332 +42% 8. Backyard Monsters 3,973,811 +287,058 +8% 9. Bubble Island 6,159,924 +246,400 +4% 10. Monster World 6,014,530 +244,349 +4% 11. It Girl 9,183,499 +210,757 +2% 12. Fantasy Kingdoms 794,005 +202,838 +34% 13. Salon Street 1,315,613 +194,953 +17% 14. Mynet Çanak Okey 2,397,065 +176,375 +8% 15. UNO® Boost 1,058,424 +175,708 +20% 16. Dragons of Atlantis 2,635,883 +174,029 +7% 17. Mall World 6,509,295 +172,373 +3% 18. Miscrits: World of Adventure 1,241,376 +163,399 +15% 19. Tavla 1,132,514 +148,303 +15% 20. Happy Hospital 2,490,410 +136,745 +6%

Gourmet Ranch is a unique organic farming and restaurant management game released by Playdemic last July. Playdemic was acquired by RockYou in January of this year in an effort to create more full-featured social games after RockYou’s Toy Land and Farm Land games failed to gain substantial numbers of users. Gourmet Ranch has been crawling up the chart, slowly gaining MAU over the past year before gaining significant momentum at the beginning of the year. It is now at a peak high of just over 997,000 MAU and should be sneaking past 1 million in the next couple of days.

Miscrits: World of Adventure is a Broken Bulb Studios game that we reviewed in January. In the two months since this Pokemon-themed pet game has debuted, Miscrits has grown to an MAU of 1.2 million. Competing almost directly with Gaia’s Monster Galaxy, these multiplayer pet combat games exploit a players desire to complete collections to show off to and compete against their friends. While 1.2 million isn’t extravagant when compared against a game like CityVille, this game has been growing fast for its medium sized developer and clearly has something special that players are seeing.

The data in this post comes via AppData, our data service tracking growth and trends across the Facebook platform.