App Annie's list of top games in Q3 2021.
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App Annie: Consumers downloaded 14.3B games in Q3, including 3.6B hypercasual games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Consumers downloaded 14.3 billion games in the third quarter, including 3.6 billion hypercasual games, according to mobile data and analytics provider App Annie.

That number of downloads for hypercasual games — simple games that can be played in a minute or less — was the highest ever and it suggests that hypercasual games aren’t necessarily a fad that are going to die out soon, said Lexi Sydow, head of insights at App Annie, in an interview with GamesBeat.

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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.