Pokemon Go, Candy Crush, Honor of Kings? Check out the top grossing mobile game of June 2022

The list of top grossing mobile games worldwide in the month of June 2022 is out and the winner is surprising. Check the top 5 including Pokemon Go, Candy Crush, Genshin Impact and more.

These are the top 5 highest grossing mobile games in the world for the month of June 2022. The list includes Pokemon Go, Candy Crush, Genshin Impact and others (Pixabay)

The performance report of mobile games in June 2022 is here and it has some surprise entrants in it. The report comes from market intelligence firm Sensor Tower and it appears that June 2022 has brought in $6.4 billion as direct revenue from players spending in App Store and Play Store, marking a decrease in year-on-year (YoY) revenue by around 10 per cent. The YoY revenue is a marker of the revenue performance in a particular period of the current fiscal year as compared to the same period in the previous fiscal year (in this case, it would be June 2021 vs June 2022). Despite that, the top 5 grossing mobile games witnessed high revenue growth with some of the biggest winners being Candy Crush, Pokemon Go and Genshin Impact. But surprisingly, none of these three games have claimed the top position. Find out the full list of the top grossing mobile games in June 2022 and details around it below.

Top grossing mobile games worldwide in June 2022

Surprisingly, the game which has taken the first place is not even available in India. Honor of Kings by Tencent raked in $238.2 million in player spending to claim the top spot, as per the report by Sensor Tower. According to the report, around 95 per cent of the total revenue of the game came directly from China. Taiwan and Thailand contributed 2 and 1.7 per cent respectively.

The second place has been claimed by MiHoYo's Genshin Impact, an open world adventure fantasy RPG game. In June 2022, the game generated $154 million in gross revenue totalling all the player purchases. This number is also significant as the company has witnessed a 58.5 per cent increase in revenue YoY compared to June 2021. The third spot has been bagged by another Tencent game PUBG Mobile. The game was banned in India in 2020, but continues to thrive in other parts of the world.

Taking the fourth spot, Pokemon Go enjoyed the most financially successful month in 2022 with a revenue of $110.2 million. A big reason for this is the physical event hosted by the company across the world where players were required to purchase tickets. Finally, the fifth position has gone to Candy Crush which even after so many years has consistently managed to generate a high level of revenue.