Critical Ops hits 25 million downloads as mobile shooter preps for esports and Asia (update)

Developer Critical Force is declaring mission success. Its mobile first-person shooter Critical Ops reached 25 million downloads in two years and boasts 860,000 daily active players.

Critical Ops is a multiplayer FPS with gameplay similar to Counter-Strike, and it’s available on Android and iOS. Though all the big-name FPSes are on PC and console, like Counter-Strike or Overwatch, Critical Ops seems to have tapped into demand for competitive games on mobile. Since its launch in 2015, its numbers have steadily increased. According to market analyst Sensor Tower, players downloaded it 5.4 million times in Q2 of this year, up 77 percent year-over-year.