Unity-based games saw 16 billion downloads in 2016

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 28, 2017
Updated June 19, 2025
2 min

Unity Technologies has a wide reach for its game engine, which designers use to make games for every platform. In 2016, games based on Unity were downloaded 16 billion times, up 31 percent from a year earlier, according to CEO John Riccitiello.

Riccitiello, speaking at the company’s press event today at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, said that Unity games are 38 percent of the top 1,000 mobile games, up from 34 percent in 2015. Unity games run on 2.6 billion devices, up from 2 billion in 2015.

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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.