Despite the title of this week’s AppData list of emerging Facebook games, there are, sadly, no hard-rocking zombies to be found on Facebook yet. What we do have for you is the combo of Instant Jam and BRAAAINS in the top two spots, which if played in sequence might just be the next best thing.
As always, the games on this list are under a million monthly active users but growing fast:
| Top Gainers This Week – Games |
| Name | MAU | Gain | Gain,% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 689,892 | +646,373 | +1,485% | |
| 2. | 547,561 | +322,354 | +143% | |
| 3. | 641,360 | +244,899 | +62% | |
| 4. | 284,877 | +194,033 | +214% | |
| 5. | 847,936 | +187,181 | +28% | |
| 6. | 384,349 | +183,175 | +91% | |
| 7. | 502,727 | +166,499 | +50% | |
| 8. | 163,788 | +157,530 | +2,517% | |
| 9. | 152,489 | +151,815 | +22,524% | |
| 10. | 707,627 | +144,071 | +26% | |
| 11. | 732,476 | +133,339 | +22% | |
| 12. | 532,078 | +130,506 | +32% | |
| 13. | 688,708 | +121,539 | +21% | |
| 14. | 925,393 | +113,673 | +14% | |
| 15. | 358,433 | +112,033 | +45% | |
| 16. | 195,312 | +108,818 | +126% | |
| 17. | 792,823 | +106,877 | +16% | |
| 18. | 112,932 | +99,001 | +711% | |
| 19. | 169,089 | +92,276 | +120% | |
| 20. | 164,538 | +89,504 | +119% |
Instant Jam first came to our attention earlier this week, and we’ve also got a review of the game out this morning. The short and sweet is that it’s Guitar Hero for Facebook, using the music on your computer. Well over half a million players have streamed into the game, most of them in just the five days prior to today.
We also recently reviewed BRAAAINS, the latest quirky RPG from Broken Bulb Studios. The goal is to build an army of zombies to fight other armies of zombies; it’s unclear where the brains come from (perhaps they’re imported).
Wheel Of Fortune, from GSN, continues its growth of previous weeks. Jungle Jewels – The Temple is newer, but it’s Bejeweled on top of GameDuell’s previous puzzle game, Maya Pyramid. Then there’s Jersey Shore, the MTV Networks takeoff on their hit reality (distortion) show.
A couple of the titles on the list that didn’t perform as strongly as those at the top still deserve some attention. Bingo Charms is newest Arkadium casual game to migrate onto Facebook; so far, it is growing well in MAU, but has quite low DAU. And Sim Hospital is from RedSpell, a name we haven’t seen before, and it also has an unfamiliar look and feel.
Source: Inside Social Games
Friday, October 22, 2010