Performance Insights of Leading City Building Games on iOS in Australia for Q4 2020

The city building game genre remains a popular choice among mobile gamers, with several titles showing significant user engagement on the iOS platform in Australia during the fourth quarter of 2020. Data provided by Sensor Tower offers a closer look at the performance of these games.

SimCity BuildIt, published by Electronic Arts, exhibited consistent weekly active users, hovering around the 17K mark throughout the quarter. Downloads peaked in the week of December 21 with approximately 1.7K, and revenue showed a healthy trend, ending the quarter with around $22K in the final week.

The Simpsons™: Tapped Out, another title from Electronic Arts, saw a notable spike in revenue during mid-November, reaching nearly $35K. Downloads for the game maintained a steady rate, with the highest at roughly 1.7K in the last week of December. Active users were consistent, with a slight increase to over 6K by the end of the quarter.

Idle Light City by AppQuantum Publishing Ltd experienced a dramatic surge in revenue during mid-December, reaching around $1.8K. The game's downloads peaked at 915 in mid-October, while weekly active users saw a gradual decrease to 2.7K by the end of December.

Nickelodeon's SpongeBob Moves In maintained a modest performance, with downloads reaching a high of 510 in early October and weekly active users peaking at 634 in the same period. Despite revenue being low, the game saw an uptick to $156 in the last week of December.

Lastly, Megapolis: City Building Sim from Social Quantum had its highest revenue at approximately $3.1K in the week leading up to Christmas. The game's downloads were consistent, with a slight increase to 301 in the last week of December, and weekly active users remained steady around the 1.2K mark throughout the quarter.

For more detailed insights and data on the performance of these and other mobile applications, Sensor Tower's platform offers comprehensive analytics and reporting tools.