Q4 2023 Performance of Top City Building Games in Australia

In the final quarter of 2023, the city-building game genre continued to captivate Australian mobile gamers. Sensor Tower data provides a snapshot of the performance of the top five games in this category.

Isekai:Slow Life, published by Mars Era Limited, showed a steady revenue trend with peaks reaching up to $56K and a slight decrease towards the end of the quarter to $32K. Downloads for the game began at 3.5K and saw a decline to 1.8K, while weekly active users increased from 9K to nearly 12K.

SimCity BuildIt by Electronic Arts maintained a healthy revenue stream, starting at $18K and escalating to a high of $28K before settling at $24K. The game experienced a fluctuation in downloads, with a high of 3.1K and a year-end rise to 3K. Active users remained relatively stable, starting at 24K and rising slightly to 24.3K.

Electronic Arts' The Simpsons™: Tapped Out saw a significant spike in revenue in mid-November, jumping from $9K to $44K, and then tapering off to $9.5K by the end of December. Downloads showed an upward trend in late November, reaching 3K, while active users saw an increase from 4.4K to 4.7K by the quarter's end.

Microfun Limited's Merge County® had consistent revenue figures, hovering around $7K for most weeks and peaking at $8.5K in the last week of December. Downloads were relatively low, with a notable drop to zero in mid-December before a slight recovery to 17 downloads. The active user base showed a downward trend from 2.3K to 1.7K.

Lastly, Puzzles & Chaos: Frozen Castle from BUILDING-BLOCKS NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO.,LIMITED, witnessed a remarkable revenue increase from $666 to $7.8K in mid-December before ending at $6.5K. Downloads peaked at 1.9K in late October, and active users grew from 38 to over 1.3K, ending at 1.2K in the last week of December.

For more detailed insights and data on the performance of these city-building games and others, Sensor Tower offers comprehensive analytics.