AI Insights · Timothy · April 2022
Top 5 Sandbox Games in South Africa Q1 2022: Unified Platform Performance
Discover the performance trends of the top 5 sandbox games in South Africa during Q1 2022, including weekly downloads, revenue, and active user statistics.
The first quarter of 2022 saw interesting trends in the performance of the top 5 sandbox games on a unified platform in South Africa. Here’s a detailed look at how these games fared in terms of weekly downloads, revenue, and active users.
Roblox experienced a notable fluctuation in weekly revenue throughout Q1 2022. Starting from $82.9K in the last week of December, the revenue saw a decline to around $34.9K by mid-January, before gradually increasing to approximately $59.5K by the end of March. Weekly downloads for Roblox showed a steady pattern, beginning at 18.2K and peaking at 19K in the first week of January, followed by a decrease to about 9.5K in early March and then rising again to 15.9K at the end of the quarter. The game maintained a stable number of weekly active users, fluctuating around the 330K-350K mark.
Mini Block Craft saw a relatively consistent trend in weekly downloads, starting from 10.7K in late December and ending at around 10.2K in the last week of March. Active users for Mini Block Craft showed a downward trend initially, from about 40.3K to 28.8K by early March, before rebounding to 39.9K by the end of the quarter.
Minicraft 2020 displayed a varied download pattern, with numbers starting at 10.9K in late December, dropping to around 5K in early March, and then rising to 9.6K by the end of March. Active users for this game followed a similar trend, decreasing from 50.7K to 38.2K by early March, and then increasing to 48.7K towards the end of the quarter.
Rec Room - Play with friends! showed a steady increase in weekly revenue, peaking at $322 in the final week of March. Weekly downloads for Rec Room saw significant variation, starting at 5.2K in late December, peaking at 8.8K in late February, and stabilizing around 6.7K by the end of March. The number of weekly active users rose from 6.2K to 12.8K by late February, before settling at 10.5K in the last week of March.
Craft Earth Boy experienced a sharp decline in weekly downloads, starting at 7.5K in late December and dropping to 1.2K by the end of March. The active user count for Craft Earth Boy followed a similar trend, decreasing from 8.7K to 6.2K over the same period.
These insights come from Sensor Tower, where more detailed data and analysis can be found.
