Apple is revealing its 2024 game and app awards for the App Store.

Apple unveils the most-downloaded games and apps of 2024

As 2024 comes to a close, Apple is unveiling the most downloaded games and apps of the year in the U.S.

Now available on the App Store’s Today tab on iPhone and iPad, year-end charts include the top Apple Arcade games, as well as top free and paid games and apps. Here’s the list of the most-downloaded games on the list. It’s a follow-up to the winners of the 2024 App Store Awards released last week.

It’s interesting to see the mix of brand new games and those that have been around for a while. For instance, the veterans of this list include Monopoly Go, Roblox, Minecraft, Royal Match, Subway Surfers, Stardew Valley and Among Us.

Top Apple Arcade Games

NBA 2K24 Arcade Edition
Snake.io+
Hello Kitty Island Adventure
Sneaky Sasquatch
Bloons TD 6+
Sonic Dream Team
NFL Retro Bowl ’25
Disney Dreamlight Valley
Cooking Mama: Cuisine!
Solitaire by MobilityWare+

Top Free iPhone Games

Block Blast!
Monopoly Go!
Roblox
Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile
Township
Last War:Survival
Royal Match
Brawl Stars
Subway Surfers
My Perfect Hotel

Top Paid iPhone Games

Minecraft: Play with Friends
Heads Up!
Geometry Dash
Papa’s Freezeria To Go!
Bloons TD 6
Five Nights at Freddy’s
Plague Inc.
Monopoly: The Board Game
Stardew Valley
Red’s First Flight

Top Free iPad Games

Roblox
Magic Tiles 3: Piano Game
Monopoly Go!
Subway Surfers
Brawl Stars
Geometry Dash Lite
Block Blast!
Among Us!
My Perfect Hotel
Royal Match

Top Paid iPad Games

Minecraft: Play with Friends
Geometry Dash
Five Nights at Freddy’s
Stardew Valley
Bloons TD 6
Papa’s Paleteria To Go!
Five Nights at Freddy’s 2
Poppy Playtime Chapter 1
Monopoly: The Board Game
Ultimate Custom Night

Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. 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.