Playdom’s hidden object game, Gardens of Time, climbs back into the top two on this week’s list of fastest-growing Facebook games by daily active users as tracked by AppData. Looks like strategy games haven’t squeezed out the casual genre just yet.

Meanwhile, Empires & Allies continues to dominate the top 20 lists by growth across DAU and monthly active users as the game turns a month old today. Its nearest competitors by genre, Kabam’s Global Warfare and Digital Chocolate’s Army Attack, also continue to grow, though the latter’s DAU leveled off in such a way as to exclude it from appearing on this week’s list.

A quick note about strategy versus casual: Empires & Allies and its nearest competitors are turn-based strategy games where artificial intelligence controls a player’s opponents and awaits the player’s move before attacking. This type of gameplay is considered more “casual” than the kind found in true real-time strategy games like Kixeye’s Battle Pirates, where the player can control individual units during a synchronous battle against a player or AI-controlled opponent. The reason for this has to do with time invested by the player; the more time required to achieve victory conditions, the less “casual” the game is considered to be.

Top Gainers This Week – Games

	Name	DAU	Gain	Gain,%
1.	Empires & Allies	6,831,823	+358,651	+6%
2.	Gardens of Time	3,067,611	+141,540	+5%
3.	Global Warfare	201,481	+83,567	+71%
4.	Slotomania – Slot Machines	789,603	+70,730	+10%
5.	inFAMOUS Anarchy	118,975	+63,147	+113%
6.	Feevo	119,912	+58,072	+94%
7.	Cooking Mama	96,696	+54,032	+127%
8.	Akvaryum	208,373	+53,884	+35%
9.	แฮปปี้คนเลี้ยงหม	948,694	+52,727	+6%
10.	Monster World	1,470,431	+51,704	+4%
11.	Social Empires	242,004	+51,167	+27%
12.	BOSS維加斯	169,108	+44,739	+36%
13.	Diamond Dash	1,580,558	+38,771	+3%
14.	Dragons of Atlantis	442,281	+36,406	+9%
15.	Draw My Thing	151,741	+35,216	+30%
16.	Foursquare	309,731	+33,216	+12%
17.	Addicting Games	133,735	+33,080	+33%
18.	Mynet Çanak 101 Okey	114,389	+27,561	+32%
19.	Mi Pecera	44,907	+25,485	+131%
20.	MMA Pro Fighter	88,142	+25,319	+40%

Playtika’s Slotomania continues to show consistent growth across both DAU and MAU, though its DAU is vulnerable to outages due to game maintenance. In the past month, the developer has released new content to the game in the form of a pirate-themed slot machine and multiple upgrade periods that are reflected in the DAU. Interestingly, the developer today is asking players to vote on which mobile device they’d most like to see Slotomania playable on as the developer commits to a cross-platform strategy.

All data in this post comes from our traffic tracking service, AppData. Stay tuned for our look at the top emerging apps on Friday.