Top Social Games Chart April 2012

This month's chart courtesy of Inside Social Games and AppData shows that Facebook's largest game developers are only growing. Neither this month's chart for monthly players nor its chart for daily players features a new developer. In fact, the only brand new game to the charts by either measure is Zynga's Zynga Slingo. Perhaps the time of the indie truly is over on Facebook.

Of course, the Zynga empire reigns over both the daily and monthly player charts, claiming the top five in both. However, many of its games have been losing daily and monthly players. Four of the developers games lost over 1 million daily players and four of its games lost over 1 million players, with Hidden Chronicles losing a whopping 3.7 million monthly players. However, daily players is a far more accurate measurement of a game's stickiness.

And a majority of the top social games have lost some of that stickiness, with 16 games losing daily players this month. As for reach--best measured in monthly players--more Facebook games saw growth this month than not: 14. Rovio's Angry Birds on Facebook saw a whopping 16 million increase in monthly players. 

While this is merely one month's data, perhaps the average social gamers' habits are changing from having time for a game daily to squeezing it in every once in a while. There's also a concern of saturation: It's possible that the sheer volume of big time games on Facebook has inadvertently turned even the most dedicated fans into monthly players of each game. Come on, OMGPOP's of the world, surprise us!


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