How Azur Games has topped 8B installs for its hypercasual and casual games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 1, 2023
Updated June 18, 2025
9 min

When I hear how many games hypercasual games — the mobile games you can play in a minute or less — are downloaded in the world, I’m always astounded.

Companies like Voodoo, Say Games, Rollic and others have been saying they’re reaching billions of players for several years. Azur Games said that it has now reached eight billion installs for its games. How is that possible, given that there are 7.89 billion people on the planet?

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.