Performance of Top City Building Games on Android in Europe: Q1 2021

The first quarter of 2021 has shown varying performance trends for the top city building games on Android in Europe. Here’s a roundup of the key figures, sourced from the analytics at Sensor Tower, for the top five games in this genre.

ELECTRONIC ARTS’ SimCity BuildIt saw a slight decline in downloads from 60K in the last week of December to 25K by the end of March. Weekly active users also decreased from 715K to 632K in the same period. However, the game’s revenue remained relatively stable, hovering around the 130K to 150K range weekly.

Another title from ELECTRONIC ARTS, The Simpsons™: Tapped Out, experienced a more noticeable drop in revenue from 67K to 35K. Downloads remained fairly consistent with a slight uptick to 25K in the last week of March, while weekly active users saw a gradual decrease from 464K to 452K.

The Tribez: Build a Village, published by Game Insight, showed an interesting trend with a significant spike in revenue from 34K to 45K in the last week of March. Downloads peaked at 25K in the same week, marking a substantial increase from the 4K at the start of the year. Weekly active users rose from 37K to 64K, highlighting a positive engagement trend.

MY.GAMES B.V.’s Global City: Building Games had a mixed first quarter, with revenue seeing a peak of 45K in early February before stabilizing around 28K by March's end. Downloads saw a decline from 59K to 24K, and the trend for weekly active users also pointed downwards from 79K to 51K.

East Side Games Studio’s Trailer Park Boys:Greasy Money showed a gradual decrease in revenue from 38K to 32K. The game had a steady decline in downloads, starting the quarter at 5.9K and ending at 2.5K. Weekly active users saw a modest decline from 21K to 18K.

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