Facebook announces top games of 2012: SongPop music trivia game comes out on top

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At the Le Web technology conference in Paris, Facebook just announced its top-rated social games of the year. The winner is FreshPlanet’s SongPop game. The awards are based on ratings and engagement levels from the people who play them. SongPop was created by French developer FreshPlanet for Facebook.com, iPhone and Android. The social network said it was the most diverse and global year for social games. Winners came from web and mobile, a variety of game categories, and from developers all over the world.Zynga has six of the top 25, but by no means does the social gaming giant dominate the list. The list includes games with at least 100,000 monthly active users on Facebook.

Top Rated Social Games of 2012

1.     SongPop (FreshPlanet) 

2.     Dragon City (Social Point) 

3.     Bike Race (Top Free games) 

4.     Subway Surfers (Kiloo) 

5.     Angry Birds Friends (Rovio) 

6.     FarmVille 2 (Zynga) 

7.     Scramble with Friends (Zynga) 

8.     Clash of Clans (Supercell) 

9.     Marvel: Avengers Alliance (Playdom) 

10.   Draw Something (Zynga) 

11.   Hay Day (Supercell) 

12.   Baseball Heroes (Syntasia) 

13.   ChefVille (Zynga)

14.   CSR Racing (NaturalMotion Games) 

15.   Candy Crush Saga (King.com

16.   Matching With Friends (Zynga) 

17.   Legend Online (OASIS GAMES)

18.   Jurassic Park Builder (Ludia) 

19.   Dungeon Rampage (Rebel Entertainment) 

20.   Pockie Ninja II Social (NGames Limited) 

21.   Jetpack Joyride (Halfbrick) 

22.   Social Empires (Social Point)

23.   Bil ve Fethet (Peak Games)

24.   Ruby Blast Adventures (Zynga)

25.   Pyramid Solitaire Saga (King.com)

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.