Garena Free Fire to become world’s top-grossing Google Play game beating PUBG

By Sanjay Maurya

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Garena Free Fire has beaten PUBG Mobile to become the world’s highest-grossing mobile game.
App Store received $26 billion in revenue from app purchases.
PUBG Mobile has dropped out of first place in all three categories.

Ranking 2021: Garena Free Fire to become world’s top-grossing Google Play game beating PUBG

Garena Free Fire has beaten PUBG Mobile to become the world’s highest-grossing mobile game for June on the Google Play Store.

Global consumer expenditure on mobile games increased 17.9% year over year in the first half of 2021, according to Sensor Tower research. The study claims that spending reached $44.7 billion in the first six months. While the App Store received $26 billion in revenue from app purchases, the Play Store received $18.7 billion.

According to Sensor Tower’s newest data, PUBG Mobile has dropped out of first place in all three categories. The honor of Kings, a Tencent-owned game, made more money on Apple’s App Store than PUBG Mobile and went on to become the most popular app overall. The honor of Kings generated $277 billion in sales, up 21% from the previous year.

Garena Free Fire’s overall income from player spending on the Android marketplace is unknown. In any case, defeating PUBG Mobile is a significant achievement for the game, which stepped in to fill the gap left by PUBG Mobile’s banned in India last year.

According to the study, PUBG Mobile earned $213.8 million in gross revenue, making it Tencent’s second most profitable app. China, where the game is known as Game for Peace, accounted for 53.3 percent of revenue. The United States was PUBG Mobile’s second-largest revenue provider.

According to Sensor Tower, these are the top ten mobile games by revenue in June 2021:

Overall Revenue	App Store Revenue	Google Play Store
Honor of Kings	Honor of Kings	Coin Master
Pubg Mobile	Pubg Mobile	Garena Free Fire
Genshin Impact	Genshin Impact	Lineage M
Roblox	Roblox	Pokemon Go
Coin Master	3 Kingdoms Tactics	Genshin Impact
Pokemon Go	Fantasy WW Journey	Lords Mobile
Candy Crush Saga	Rise of Kingdoms	Pubg Mobile
Garena Free Fire	Uma Musume	Candy Crush Saga
Rise of Kingdoms	Pokemon Go	Roblox
Uma Musume	Candy Crush Saga	Fate/Grand Order

The report does not indicate Battlegrounds Mobile India, which is because the game was released earlier this month. Perhaps the revenue generated by the Indian version of PUBG Mobile, dubbed Battlegrounds Mobile India, will be included in the next Sensor Tower report.