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CTOnews.com February 24 news, SensorTower today released "2023 global mobile game market outlook".

As the impact of the epidemic on the global mobile market waned, global mobile game revenues fell back to $78.8 billion for the first time in 2022, down nearly 9 per cent from a year earlier, but still 25 per cent higher than in 2019, the report said. Analysts expect global mobile game revenue to return to its rising path in 2023 and to exceed $92 billion in 2027.

In terms of downloads, the number of global mobile game downloads in 2022 was close to the 2021 level, at 55.4 billion, but still 31% higher than in 2019. Analysts expect global mobile game downloads to return to the upward trend in 2023 and more than 76 billion downloads in 2027.

SensorTower pointed out that the number of downloads of mobile sports games worldwide increased by 14% to 2.2 billion, driven by the 2022 World Cup. The downloads of leisure mobile games such as leisure games, puzzle puzzles and arcades in 2022 remain at the level of the previous year, and the downloads of leisure mobile games are expected to continue the previous growth trend in 2023. In this year, the domestic purchase income of medium and heavy mobile games such as RPG, strategy, action and shooting fell 11% to US $46.3 billion for the first time, and the income of medium and heavy mobile games is expected to pick up in 2023.

In terms of breakdown, global RPG mobile game domestic purchase revenue fell 15 per cent for the first time in 2022 to close to 2019 levels, and SensorTower expects the decline in RPG mobile game revenue to slow in 2023. In terms of downloads, there were 1.4 billion downloads of RPG mobile games worldwide in 2022, basically the same as in 2021.

In 2022, revenue from domestic purchases of strategic mobile games fell 6 per cent to $16.7 billion for the first time, but it was still higher than before the epidemic. Revenue from strategic mobile games is expected to rebound in 2023. The number of downloads of global strategic mobile games in 2022 is the same as that in 2021, and it is predicted that downloads will remain stable in 2023.

Here I would like to mention the strategic mobile games from China, which have outstanding revenue performance in popular overseas markets such as the United States, Japan and South Korea.

According to the list given by SensorTower, "Arena of Valor", "the Strategic Edition of the three Kingdoms", "League of Legends Mobile Tour", "the Battle of the Golden shovel" and "lead the Bund of Land" are the five favorite strategic mobile games for Chinese players, while "endless Lagrange", "Pocket Raiders", "tomorrow's Ark", "the Awakening of all Kingdoms" and "Civilization and Conquest" are also very good.

In addition, a number of 4X strategic mobile games, such as "Universal Awakening", "Pocket Raider", "Age of Origins", "Watch Dawn" and "Kingdom era", have also been shortlisted in the 2022 US strategic mobile games bestseller list Top10.

This article is based on the content written by SensorTower analysts, and the original SensorTower text is attached to CTOnews.com.

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