[Mobile Games] August’s top grossing mobile games

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Here are last month’s top grossing mobile games based on in-app purchase earnings, according to Appmagic data. These IAP estimates do not include ad revenue, web shop spend, Apple and Google’s 30% cut or revenue from China’s Android ecosystem. There’s commentary on which way the biggest earners are trending, and other interesting tidbits from the top 20 and beyond below. In between these monthly updates, you can keep tabs on Appmagic’s top grossing and top downloads charts anytime here.August was another good month for Honor of Kings, to say the least – it’s back in that $170-$175m bracket after a couple of blips in March and June. But arguably the biggest news in the chart this month for the number-crunchers paying attention is the return of Roblox’s iOS revenue data – it had completely disappeared from all mobile game revenue tracking services for a couple of months, but it is now back, it seems. Roblox earned over $157m on mobile platforms in August, a new record. It spiked in July and continued to rake it in during August, driven by kids on their summer holidays plus of course the mania around Grow A Garden and Steal A Brainrot. And yet it was still not quite enough to unseat Honor of Kings at the top.PUBG Mobile is surging too – up to over $130m in August, its best month of IAP revenue since January 2023. The game had a Transformers collab and added a new Bonus Pass among an array of new skins in August, which may explain that rise. There’s also a big 4.0 update dropping this month, so that momentum may well continue. Whiteout Survival is back up past the $125m mark again after a gentle revenue dip in the last couple of months, while close contender LastWar is close behind, down about $12m month-on-month at $125.8m. August was a pretty typical month for regular top ten trio Royal Match, Monopoly Go and Candy Crush Saga – only the latter grew IAP revenue month-on-month by more than a couple of million, compared to July’s figures.But there was a dramatic rise for Niantic’s Pokémon Go – now under new ownership, of course – which is up nine places month-on-month. It broke the $70m barrier for the first time since July 2024; the game’s Dark Skies event gave Niantic a nice bump halfway through August, but the real blockbuster was the Max Finale event linked to Pokémon Go Fest on August 23. In tenth spot the Clash Royale comeback continues: it posted its best month of IAP earnings since way back in May 2017. Clash Royale was previously  earning about $12-15m per month throughout late 2024 and early 2025, but earned just over $68m last month, going some way to replicate the much-publicised Brawl Stars comeback of 2024.August’s top grossing games: 11-20 11. Kingshot (Century): $67m 12. Fate/Grand Order (Aniplex/Sony): $55.7m 13. Pokémon TCG Pocket (The Pokémon Company): $53.3m 14. Gossip Harbor: Merge & Story (Microfun): $53m 15. Coin Master (Moon Active): $49.4m 16. Delta Force (Tencent): $38.3m 17. Township (Playrix): $35.5m 18. Gardenscapes (Playrix): $33.7m 19. Umamusume: Pretty Derby (Cygames/CyberAgent): $31.3m 20. Dungeon Fighter Mobile (Tencent): $31.6mOutside the top ten, Century Games’ Kingshot continues to scale quickly, hitting nearly $67m in August, while Fate/Grand Order has rocketed back into the top earners after a while away, suddenly jumping up to ~$56m, its best haul since August 2022. Pokémon TCG Pocket is up on a soft month in July to over $53m, and Gossip Harbor posted yet another best-ever month, with over $53m earned in August. Umamusume: Pretty Derby also maintained its recent run at around $32m after getting localised and launched for English-speaking markets. The biggest losers last month were Love and Deepspace and Honkai: Star Rail, though. They dropped 10 and 20 places in the rankings respectively, with Paper Games’ romance game down by about $12.5m month-on-month to $26.6m. Star Rail’s drop was more dramatic as July’s beefy $70m haul was slashed to ~$24m in August.

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