The Most Downloaded Mobile Games Ever | Mapped (2009-2026)

From Angry Birds to Block Blast! — watch nearly 100 of the world's biggest mobile games launch, climb, and battle for downloads on a single map. Subway Surfers crosses 4.8 billion. Candy Crush hits 3.8B. Block Blast! becomes 2025's #1 from nowhere. This is the lifetime-downloads race for the top mobile games of all time, 2009 to 2026. We tracked 95+ titles across 25+ countries — combined App Store + Google Play installs, year by year. Every game appears at its publisher's HQ city as it launches, with country origins lighting up in their genre's color. Key moments: - 2009 — Angry Birds & Doodle Jump kick off the modern mobile-game era from Finland and the US - 2010 — Talking Tom Cat, Fruit Ninja, and Cut the Rope shape the first golden age of the App Store - 2012 — Subway Surfers launches in Denmark — eventually crossing 4.8 billion downloads - 2012 — Candy Crush Saga begins its match-3 dominance (3.8B+ downloads) - 2013 — Clash of Clans rules revenue charts; Supercell becomes a global powerhouse - 2016 — Pokémon GO breaks every launch record in mobile history - 2018 — Battle royale era: PUBG Mobile and Free Fire dominate emerging markets - 2020 — Among Us explodes during the pandemic — 10× growth in 3 months - 2022 — Royal Match dethrones Candy Crush in revenue charts - 2025 — Block Blast! becomes the most-downloaded mobile game in the world from a tiny Chinese studio Sources: Sensor Tower, data.ai / AppAnnie, official publisher announcements, Business of Apps. #MobileGames #DataViz #SubwaySurfers #CandyCrush #BlockBlast #MobileGaming #GamingHistory #TopMobileGames