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King.com’s Candy Crush Saga beats Zynga with top social-mobile game

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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candy crush saga bigThanks to its success on social and mobile platforms, King.com’s flagship casual game Candy Crush Saga has become the most popular game on Facebook, beating out Zynga’s top titles, FarmVille 2 and Texas HoldEm Poker.

Measured in daily active users on AppData, King.com’s Candy Crush Saga has 9.7 million users while FarmVille 2 has 8.8 million and Texas HoldEm Poker has 7.1 million. In monthly active users, Zynga still has the top games with FarmVille 2 at 41.8 million and 35.2 million for Texas HoldEm Poker, compared to 25.8 million for Candy Crush Saga. The game is a simple one where you match three pieces of candy together, but it is played in a fast-action, arcade style. Such games have gathered huge momentum on Facebook in the past year.

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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.