Report: Games on Google Play (September)
Hello developer! This is a report on games released in September (total 9501 games).
You can download the CSV file with the TOP 100 games released in September. You can also view them screenshots from Google Play in one picture.
Number of games in categories
There are most games in the following categories:
Casual (1753)
Puzzle (1381)
Arcade (1051)
Simulation (852)
Action (846)
The fewest games in the following categories:
Word (156)
Board (179)
Card (187)
Sports (221)
Trivia (233)
Total installs per category
This is the sum of all installs in the category.
The most installs are in the following categories:
Casual (20M)
Puzzle (15M)
Action (14M)
Simulation (14M)
Arcade (9M)
The following categories have the fewest installs:
Trivia (486K)
Word (676K)
Music (1M)
Board (1M)
Casino (1M)
Average installs per category
However, if we calculate the average number of installs, the leaders change:
Action (16K)
Simulation (16K)
Sports (15K)
Educational (12K)
Card (12K)
Number of games by number of installs
More than 10K installs have 1018 (11%) games. 31% of them have a score above 4.
Average score by number of installs
Distribution score by genre
Genres with a lot of dissatisfied* users:
*How many times more 1 stars than 4 stars.
Music (4.59)
Action (2.3)
Adventure (1.63)
Puzzle (1.61)
Racing (1.59)
Casual (1.47)
Educational (1.45)
Number of paid games
Average in-app purchase price
The average maximum price for in-app purchases is $42.
The most expensive purchases are in the following categories:
Casino ($102)
Card ($77)
Role Playing ($70)
Strategy ($60)
Adventure ($43)
The cheapest purchases in the following categories:
Racing ($14)
Word ($17)
Trivia ($20)
Music ($23)
Arcade ($30)
Number of games with in-app purchases
On average, only 1345 (15%) of games contain an IAP, but there are categories where the percentage of games with in-app purchases is higher:
Card (24%)
Strategy (23%)
Role Playing (22%)
Board (22%)
Word (22%)
Number of games with advertising
On average, 76% of games contain ads, but there are categories where the percentage of games with ads is higher:
Music (96%)
Adventure (87%)
Racing (87%)
Trivia (86%)
Word (85%)
Average number of screenshots by category
Average number of screenshots for all genres: 12.
Number of screenshots
4426 (47%) games have less than 10 screenshots
Games with less than 10 screenshots have 5636 installs on average.
Games with more than 10 screenshots have 14932 installs on average.
Number of developers per genre
Total developers: 6212.
The most developers in the categories:
Casual (1301)
Puzzle (1020)
Arcade (830)
Simulation (659)
Action (643)
Least developers in the categories:
Music (134)
Word (142)
Board (166)
Trivia (179)
Card (180)
At the same time, 4897 (79%) developers have published only one game.
Among them, only 13% have received more than 10,000 installs.
TOP 100 developers
The spreadsheet is available for download.
Popular genres among TOP 100 developers. The number indicates how many developers from the TOP 100 have an app in this genre.
Puzzle, 20
Casual, 17
Arcade, 16
Action, 16
Music, 16
Simulation, 12
Adventure, 10
Racing, 10
Strategy, 6
Educational, 5
Role Playing, 4
Sports, 4
Casino, 2
Card, 2
Board, 1
Trivia, 1
Word, 1
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