Sensor Tower: In October, Tencent's "King of Glory" generated $222 million in global revenue, maintaining its position as the top-grossing mobile game.

Zhitong App has learned from Sensor Tower's store intelligence data that in October 2023, Tencent's "King of Glory" generated $222 million in revenue on the global App Store and Google Play, maintaining its position as the best-selling mobile game worldwide. After the update in late September, the game introduced a new skin called "Sea Moon - Ace Nova" and offered various benefits during the National Day golden holiday, including the limited-time return of multiple skins. These updates helped the game maintain its strong momentum. On October 28th, the game celebrated its 8th anniversary and launched a new series of exquisite skins and a variety of activities. The rich content updates not only solidified the game's position as the best-selling mobile game globally but also propelled it to the second spot on the revenue growth chart.

Tencent's "PUBG Mobile" (including the revenue from "Peace Elite") ranked second on the list with a revenue of $137 million. Among them, 57.7% of the revenue came from the Chinese iOS market, 8.8% from the US market, and 6.1% from the Indian market. On October 13th, the game launched the "Yellow Ethnic Leader" event, immediately climbing to the third spot on the best-selling iPhone games chart in China. On October 27th, with the launch of the collaboration with "Happy Landlord," the game reached its peak revenue for October, reaching $10 million.

The other three games in the top five revenue list are Dream Games' "Royal Match," miHoYo's "Honkai Impact: Star Rail," and Scopely's "Monopoly GO!"

In October 2023, global mobile game players spent $6.2 billion on the App Store and Google Play, a YoY growth of 2%. The United States remains the highest-grossing market for mobile games globally, contributing $1.8 billion, accounting for 29.8% of the total revenue. The Chinese iOS market ranks second, accounting for 20.1%; the Japanese market ranks third, accounting for 14.7%.

miHoYo's two mobile games continued to perform well in October. On October 17th, the introduction of new characters, limited-time items, and the return of Wendy in "Genshin Impact" boosted the game's revenue and brought it back to the second spot on the best-selling iPhone games chart in China. On October 11th, "Honkai Impact: Star Rail" released version 1.4, introducing a new character, Mirror Flow, and achieved the first peak revenue in October, ranking first on the best-selling iPhone games chart in China. On October 27th, the release of new characters, Topa and Zhanzhan, further increased the game's revenue, maintaining a top-three position on the best-selling iPhone games chart in China for three consecutive days. Thanks to these updates, the game successfully ranked fourth on the revenue chart and third on the growth chart.

Mixi's "Monster Strike" started to increase its daily revenue on October 1st after collaborating with the popular IP "Tokyo Revengers," introducing five new characters, and offering rich anniversary celebration activities. On October 15th, the game collaborated with the well-known IP "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders" and launched a two-week event, including the introduction of famous characters, missions, and mini-games. These activities have made the game top the Japanese iPhone game bestseller list for 21 days in October, with a month-on-month revenue growth of 71%, ranking first on the monthly growth list.

Hortor Games' "King of Salted Fish" celebrated its second anniversary on October 21st, launching new skins and limited-time skin re-releases, setting a new monthly revenue record and successfully entering the top 5 on the revenue growth list.

Koei Tecmo's 3D anime team RPG mobile game "Atelier Resleriana," which was launched in late September, maintained excellent market performance in October, with a month-on-month revenue growth of 278% to nearly $12 million, ranking 7th on the growth list. This marks another successful port of a classic console IP to the mobile platform.

With the start of the 8th anniversary celebration, KONAMI's popular sports mobile game "Professional Baseball Spirits A" topped the Japanese iPhone game bestseller list on October 25th and remained in the top spot for five consecutive days, successfully entering the 8th place on the global mobile game revenue growth list for October.