Ubisoft leads this week’s list of fastest-growing games by monthly active users with the newly-launched The Smufts & Co., a city-building game based on the 1980s cartoon franchise. Not far behind are Zoo World 2 and Gourmet Ranch from RockYou.
The rest of our list this week is a mix of old and new titles covering everything from old hat restaurant sims to TV tie-in social games. To that last point, we’ll be keeping an eye on Jersey Shore this month as MTV is now airing the show’s fourth season.
Top Gainers This Week – Games
| Name | MAU | Gain | Gain,% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | The Smurfs & Co | 1,568,701 | +1,489,818 | +1,889% |
| 2. |  Zoo World | 7,652,670 | +1,008,972 | +15% |
| 3. |  Gourmet Ranch | 3,432,654 | +491,952 | +17% |
| 4. |  Megacity | 1,124,147 | +417,823 | +59% |
| 5. |  Texas HoldEm Poker | 34,467,096 | +377,642 | +1% |
| 6. | Mahjong Saga | 2,927,567 | +366,070 | +14% |
| 7. |  Gardens of Time | 16,353,436 | +353,861 | +2% |
| 8. |  Premier League Fantasy Football | 400,999 | +332,411 | +485% |
| 9. | Collapse! Blast | 952,793 | +305,757 | +47% |
| 10. |  Social Empires | 3,419,228 | +291,850 | +9% |
| 11. | ESPN Sports Bar & Grill | 471,729 | +246,143 | +109% |
| 12. |  The Pokerist club — Texas Poker | 1,549,945 | +214,909 | +16% |
| 13. |  Tetris Battle | 4,721,028 | +208,125 | +5% |
| 14. |  Shadow Fight | 2,004,979 | +197,914 | +11% |
| 15. |  Slotomania – Slot Machines | 4,436,277 | +189,338 | +4% |
| 16. |  Miscrits: World of Adventure | 1,783,471 | +184,070 | +12% |
| 17. |  Barn Buddy | 1,932,206 | +176,530 | +10% |
| 18. |  Battle Pirates | 1,476,293 | +170,795 | +13% |
| 19. |  S.O.S | 358,527 | +163,616 | +84% |
| 20. |  Jersey Shore | 1,411,625 | +160,202 | +13% |
Don’t be confused by the presence of two Smurf game apps on Facebook. The Smurfs’ Village is a promotion for Capcom’s mobile city-building game that redirects off Facebook to a site where customers can download it for iOS devices. The Smurfs & Co. is an actual Facebook game built and run by Ubisoft, which owns the rights to develop the game on Facebook and potentially for social networks as well. Stick around for a full review of The Smufs & Co. later this week.
All data in this post comes from our traffic tracking service, AppData. Stay tuned for our look at the top weekly gainers by daily active users on Wednesday, and the top emerging apps on Friday.
Source: Inside Social Games
Monday, August 8, 2011