Family Feud has finally worked its way up to the top, leading everything else on this week’s list of fastest-growing Facebook games by monthly active users. The trivia game has been hanging around for about two months, but this is the first time that it has led the pack. Also notable is that despite its relatively long time since release, the game’s growth is still gradually accelerating — we’d even see higher growth for this week, but Facebook’s stat reporting on the app has been hung for the past three days.
It’s not the only one with delayed reporting, so the numbers look a bit low overall this week. Here’s the AppData top 20 list:
| Name | MAU | Gain | Gain, % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |  Family Feud | 4,816,329 | +420,998 | +9.58 |
| 2. |  Collect Roses | 895,866 | +331,196 | +58.65 |
| 3. |  Nightclub City | 978,034 | +318,460 | +48.28 |
| 4. |  Name Analyzer | 843,352 | +286,941 | +51.57 |
| 5. |  Big City Life | 1,431,276 | +239,693 | +20.12 |
| 6. |  Bola | 2,572,522 | +236,171 | +10.11 |
| 7. |  Kingdoms of Camelot | 3,183,890 | +193,243 | +6.46 |
| 8. |  MindJolt Games | 12,959,308 | +177,140 | +1.39 |
| 9. |  My Tribe | 809,038 | +168,444 | +26.29 |
| 10. |  Monster World | 456,058 | +155,160 | +51.57 |
| 11. |  Mall World | 2,736,545 | +123,621 | +4.73 |
| 12. |  Games | 2,113,376 | +117,732 | +5.90 |
| 13. |  Funfari | 487,571 | +110,273 | +29.23 |
| 14. |  Bike Mania 4 Micro Office | 290,599 | +109,540 | +60.50 |
| 15. |  Hero World | 1,889,376 | +107,186 | +6.01 |
| 16. |  My Stuff | 3,945,047 | +105,423 | +2.75 |
| 17. |  Ameba Pico | 1,226,273 | +105,141 | +9.38 |
| 18. |  Bubble Paradise | 155,435 | +102,048 | +191.15 |
| 19. |  Jungle Life | 460,403 | +93,166 | +25.37 |
| 20. |  My Casino | 658,572 | +86,350 | +15.09 |
Nightclub City and Big City Life have been growing almost in tandem since they were released, despite different developers (Playdom is behind the latter) and a fairly weak thematic connection. There is a distinction to be made, though; we’ve noticed that Nightclub City’s stats still show the game bringing back over 40 percent of its users on a daily basis, while Big City Life draws only 8 percent back, far lower than the average.
Playdom makes up for its low engagement in that game, though, by also registering the soccer game Bola, which it owns through its acquisition of Three Melons. Bola is becoming one of the first large soccer games on Facebook, although we’re expecting many more, given the social network’s strong international growth — indeed, Playfish has already announced the impending release of a FIFA title.
Monster World is an up-and-coming Wooga game that’s worth keeping an eye on, even if it’s basically just a farming game featuring monsters. Sometimes it’s the little touches that count. That could also be said of Mall World, the next entry down, which recently enjoyed strong growth by strictly limiting its audience to fashion-obsessed girls and women; unfortunately, its gains now appear to be slowing down.
Source: Inside Social Games
Monday, May 17, 2010