None of the apps on this week’s AppData list of emerging Facebook games, those still under a million monthly active users, has made any outstanding gains. But Little War, the leader, has certainly done well enough with its nearly 300,000 new MAU.
| Top Gainers This Week – Games |
| Name | MAU | Gain | Gain,% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |  Little War | 878,692 | +298,633 | +61% |
| 2. |  Trial Madness 2 | 635,585 | +227,613 | +63% |
| 3. |  Hero | 732,460 | +209,535 | +48% |
| 4. |  Galaxy X | 739,384 | +184,632 | +37% |
| 5. |  Paradise Life | 561,320 | +165,801 | +49% |
| 6. |  Crazy Cabbie | 764,308 | +127,819 | +21% |
| 7. |  Horse Saga | 623,995 | +127,072 | +27% |
| 8. |  David Guetta, Play with it! | 495,622 | +117,592 | +33% |
| 9. |  MilMo | 214,378 | +112,578 | +344% |
| 10. |  Dragons of Atlantis | 556,128 | +110,908 | +28% |
| 11. |  My Shops | 293,818 | +82,816 | +45% |
| 12. |  Pool Master 2 | 792,922 | +81,731 | +12% |
| 13. |  Santa Yourself | 321,519 | +77,070 | +32% |
| 14. |  Zombie Mosh | 241,370 | +76,245 | +57% |
| 15. |  Downhill Snowboard | 536,910 | +74,408 | +17% |
| 16. |  Fun Games | 199,314 | +72,553 | +70% |
| 17. |  Tarjetas Animadas | 192,938 | +72,223 | +68% |
| 18. |  Magic Mall | 222,248 | +71,435 | +58% |
| 19. |  Classic Word Games | 366,515 | +69,030 | +25% |
| 20. |  Gourmet Ranch | 522,486 | +67,445 | +15% |
Little War is by Five Minutes, a Chinese developer that’s among the handful branching into English-language games. The game plateaued for a few weeks with around half a million MAU, but suddenly sprang up again about a week ago.
As has been the case for about a month now, several casual games are growing well: Trial Madness 2, Crazy Cabbie, Pool Master 2, Downhill Snowboard and Classic Word Games. Arguably, David Guetta, Play with it! falls into the category. The game is actually called Pump It!; it’s a light-weight music app that we recently reviewed over on Inside Facebook.
At number three, Hero is doing well, following strong growth that we noted last week. Although rather rough, it’s an interesting take on the text RPG genre that mixes in concepts from online strategy games like Evony.
Most of the other games within the top 10 we’ve also reviewed, including Galaxy X (here) and Paradise Life (here). One we haven’t taken a deeper look at yet is MilMo, a 3D MMO that uses Unity. Milmo is an ambitious attempt at opening up a new genre on Facebook, and is so far showing decent results; unfortunately, it appears to be running into scaling issues that have turned some users off.
Source: Inside Social Games
Friday, December 31, 2010