May’s top grossing mobile games: Honor of Kings, Whiteout Survival, Royal Match, more

Here are last month’s top grossing mobile games based on in-app purchase earnings, according to
Appmagic
data.
These IAP estimates do not include ad revenue, web shop spend, Apple and Google’s 30% cut or revenue from China’s Android ecosystem.
There’s commentary on which way the biggest earners are trending, and other interesting tidbits from the top 20 and beyond below.
In between these monthly updates, you can keep tabs on
Appmagic’s top grossing and top downloads charts anytime here
.
Honor of Kings
’ rollercoaster-like earnings saw another spike in May, leaping up about $20m month-on-month to just over $161m. It’s not quite January’s monster $193m in IAP revenue, but it’s in the middle of range of the game’s very spiky revenue graph.
Whiteout Survival
is down, but only by a little bit, for a second consecutive month. It stays around the $110m mark, while puzzlers
Royal Match
and
Gossip Harbor
each hover around $100m, and are both essentially flat month-on-month.
Candy Crush Saga
appears to be back to normal – that is, earning nearly $100m from IAPs every month – after a blip in February that saw the game’s monthly earnings dip under $80 for the first time since February 2023.
Roblox
and
PUBG Mobile
stay in sixth and seventh respectively having posted similar numbers two months running, while Century Games’
Kingshot
continues to grow. May’s total of over $91m is its best-ever performance and follows consistently steady growth since its sudden rise into the top tier of earners back in August 2025.
Once again, we assume webshop shenanigans are to blame for
Monopoly Go
’s big drop in IAP revenue since January. It was regularly claiming $110-120m before then, but from February onwards it has been hovering around the $80m mark. We’ll see next month whether that huge
Simpsons crossover
has made any difference.
Arguably the biggest story from last month’s top ten is the sudden drop for
Last War
, which has been a constant in the top five for the last couple of years. It suddenly dropped from its usual earnings bracket of $125-135m to ‘just’ around $82m for May, a third consecutive month of notable IAP revenue decline.
We’ve no idea why this happened, frankly. but
let us know
if you do have a solid reason for that sudden drop-off.
May’s top grossing mobile games: 11-20
11.
Delta Force
(Tencent): $57.2m
12.
Coin Master
(Moon Active): $52.6m
13.
Township
(Playrix): $45.5m
14.
Royal Kingdom
(Dream Games): $40.8m
15.
Brawl Stars
(Supercell): $38.4m
16.
Gardenscapes
(Playrix): $38m
17.
Free Fire Max
(Garena): $36.1m
18.
eFootball
(Konami): $35.7m
19.
Toon Blast
(Take-Two): $32.8m
20.
Last Z: Survival Shooter
(Omnilojo): $32.5m
There’s a huge drop in earnings from places 10 to 11 – eleventh-placed Tencent shooter
Delta Force
earned roughly $25m less than Last War in tenth. And in a pretty steady group of games, May’s biggest movers were
Brawl Stars
(up three places) and
Free Fire Max
(up four spots).
Outside the top 20,
Love and Deepspace
’s continued growth has pushed it up to 22nd spot with $28.5m earned last month from IAPs. It rose up the rankings 13 places last month, and
Goddess of Victory: Nikki
saw similar growth, leaping up 12 places to earn $27m in 24th spot.
Sandwiched in-between these two games in 23rd is
Honkai Star Rail
, which fell seven spots month-on-month, earning ~$28m in May.
Tencent’s China-only
Valorant
is up four places to 26th, having earned $26.5m last month, and even before its Cyberpunk crossover went live on June 8,
Wuthering Waves
was up 51 places month-on-month, having earned $23m in May.