It earned over $100m more than King last year, and as you’d expect, Homescapes ($489m) and Gardenscapes ($429m) raked in the most cash. In fourth, Playrix was the top-grossing western publisher of 2022. Also, ‘Riddles and romance’ game Tears of Themis earned $23m last year. Honkai Impact 3rd earned $130m last year – a huge title, but one now overshadowed by Genshin. Genshin Impact ($1.56bn) naturally represents the vast majority of Mihoyo’s $1.72bn earnings in 2022, though it has two other notable titles worth mentioning. NetEase had three more games that earned over $100m in 2022: 4X strategy game History of the Three Kingdoms ($161m), survival adventure LifeAfter ($141m) and battle-RPG Onmyoji ($104m). Its second-biggest game was battle royale Knives Out ($228m), followed by the NetEase edition of Diablo Immortal, which earned $168m since its China launch in July (The rest-of-world edition is published by Blizzard, so doesn’t factor into NetEase’s numbers here). NetEase was 2022’s second biggest publisher by revenue, and Fantasy Westward Journey ($601m) was its top grossing game by far. It was Tencent’s sixth-highest earning game of last year after just two months on the market. New release Goddess of Victory: Nikke has been incredibly lucrative too, earning $153m since it launched in November 2022. And Tencent’s fifth-biggest title, battle royale game CrossFire: Legends ($237m), wasn’t far off TFT in fourth. The China editions of Riot’s League of Legends: Wild Rift ($357m) and Teamfight Tactics ($239m) were nice little earners in 2022, too. Led by the killer one-two punch of Honor of Kings ($2.2bn earned in 2022) and PUBG Mobile ($1.7bn), it’s no surprise to find Tencent top of this list.Īs we noted in our commentary on 2022’s top grossing games, Honor of Kings revenue was up annually by $460m conversely, PUBG Mobile is down year-on-year by $300m.

The top ten, plus commentary, is below we’ve also got the 11-20 and 21-30 rankings in full, plus each publisher’s top earning game.įor more big numbers and commentary, read our other 2022 wrap-up stories:Ģ022’s top mobile game publishers, by downloads The 2022 numbers are in: here are last year’s top grossing publishers worldwide, according to Appmagic data.

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