May’s top grossing mobile games: Honor of Kings, Whiteout Survival, Royal Match, more

Here are last month’s top grossing mobile games based on in-app purchase earnings, according to Appmagic data.

These IAP estimates do not include ad revenue, web shop spend, Apple and Google’s 30% cut or revenue from China’s Android ecosystem.

There’s commentary on which way the biggest earners are trending, and other interesting tidbits from the top 20 and beyond below.

In between these monthly updates, you can keep tabs on Appmagic’s top grossing and top downloads charts anytime here.

Honor of Kings’ rollercoaster-like earnings saw another spike in May, leaping up about $20m month-on-month to just over $161m. It’s not quite January’s monster $193m in IAP revenue, but it’s in the middle of range of the game’s very spiky revenue graph.

Whiteout Survival is down, but only by a little bit, for a second consecutive month. It stays around the $110m mark, while puzzlers Royal Match and Gossip Harbor each hover around $100m, and are both essentially flat month-on-month. 

Candy Crush Saga appears to be back to normal – that is, earning nearly $100m from IAPs every month – after a blip in February that saw the game’s monthly earnings dip under $80 for the first time since February 2023.

Roblox and PUBG Mobile stay in sixth and seventh respectively having posted similar numbers two months running, while Century Games’ Kingshot continues to grow. May’s total of over $91m is its best-ever performance and follows consistently steady growth since its sudden rise into the top tier of earners back in August 2025.

Once again, we assume webshop shenanigans are to blame for Monopoly Go’s big drop in IAP revenue since January. It was regularly claiming $110-120m before then, but from February onwards it has been hovering around the $80m mark. We’ll see next month whether that huge Simpsons crossover has made any difference.

Arguably the biggest story from last month’s top ten is the sudden drop for Last War, which has been a constant in the top five for the last couple of years. It suddenly dropped from its usual earnings bracket of $125-135m to ‘just’ around $82m for May, a third consecutive month of notable IAP revenue decline.

We’ve no idea why this happened, frankly. but let us know if you do have a solid reason for that sudden drop-off.

11. Delta Force (Tencent): $57.2m
12. Coin Master (Moon Active): $52.6m
13. Township (Playrix): $45.5m
14. Royal Kingdom (Dream Games): $40.8m
15. Brawl Stars (Supercell): $38.4m
16. Gardenscapes (Playrix): $38m
17. Free Fire Max (Garena): $36.1m
18. eFootball (Konami): $35.7m
19. Toon Blast (Take-Two): $32.8m
20. Last Z: Survival Shooter (Omnilojo): $32.5m

There’s a huge drop in earnings from places 10 to 11 – eleventh-placed Tencent shooter Delta Force earned roughly $25m less than Last War in tenth. And in a pretty steady group of games, May’s biggest movers were Brawl Stars (up three places) and Free Fire Max (up four spots).

Outside the top 20, Love and Deepspace’s continued growth has pushed it up to 22nd spot with $28.5m earned last month from IAPs. It rose up the rankings 13 places last month, and Goddess of Victory: Nikki saw similar growth, leaping up 12 places to earn $27m in 24th spot.

Sandwiched in-between these two games in 23rd is Honkai Star Rail, which fell seven spots month-on-month, earning ~$28m in May.

Tencent’s China-only Valorant is up four places to 26th, having earned $26.5m last month, and even before its Cyberpunk crossover went live on June 8, Wuthering Waves was up 51 places month-on-month, having earned $23m in May.