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

Thanks 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.