Top 30 Chinese Game Companies and Apps with the Highest Overseas Revenue in February 2024

The ranking of Chinese game manufacturers and applications' overseas revenue in February 2024 is released. Diandian Interactive successfully topped the overseas revenue list, followed by Mihoyo . Both achieved impressive revenue of US$100 million, with a month-on-month growth rate of 1.5% and 3.6% respectively. Onefun moved up another 3 places this time, coming to No. 3. Its 4X marching battle mobile game Last War , which includes a casual sub-game, continues to attract money in South Korea, the United States, and Taiwan, helping the publisher's revenue increase by 67% month-on-month. NetEase 's multiple games saw significant growth, helping the publisher's revenue ranking rise by three places to 10th: Knives Out launched its 33rd season and linked up with Attack on Titan to launch costumes for popular characters such as Eren and Mikasa, with monthly user spending growth on the Japanese service alone exceeding $1.6 million; Identity V launched a Spring Festival theme event, with overseas user spending growing by 21.6% month -on-month ; LifeAfter launched new content such as the "Hope Radio" plot and the Golden Dragon Statue Guarding Game, driving overseas user spending to grow by 101%. Paper Games achieved overseas revenue growth with its new game Love and Deepspace. The game has completed Valentine's Day-related content updates since February 5 (including an increase in the probability of wishing for "When No One Knows" and the "Burning Passion" event), which once again triggered players' willingness to pay in many markets, with global spending reaching $2.5 million on that day alone. The game has become the highest-spending otome love game in the world so far in 2024, and Paper Games has therefore climbed to 21st place, becoming the largest overseas publisher in the Top 30. Other publishers that have risen significantly in the rankings include Topwar Studio , X.D. Network, Glacier Network , and Wanda Cinema Games .

New overseas tours emerge in 2024

At the beginning of 2024, Chinese publishers continued to innovate in overseas markets, and many of these new games performed well, helping publishers achieve revenue growth. Diandian Interactive's open-world party game Livetopia: Party was officially launched on both iOS and Google Play in January, and had received about 1.5 million downloads in February. Although most of the publisher's revenue comes from its 4X marching combat game Whiteout Survival , the new game still maintained a 265% growth. Indonesia is currently the game's largest user market. Jiangyu Interactive launched its second hit product Top Heroes . This Roguelike ARPG game is more casual than Top War . Once launched, it has accumulated about 1.7 million new users worldwide. Its ability to attract money is even stronger, with user spending exceeding US$6.5 million in February alone. Thanks to the outstanding performance of the new game, the publisher's overseas revenue list has risen to 14th place. X.D. Network and Wanda Cinema Games rose to 17th and 26th place respectively, thanks to the growth of Let's Go Muffin and Saint Seiya: Legend of Justice in the Taiwan and Japanese markets.

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Summary of Chinese mobile games' overseas performance in February 2024: Many new games are among the top 30. The top 30 Chinese mobile games in this issue have attracted a total of $820 million in overseas markets, which is basically the same as the previous month. Whiteout Survival has topped the overseas revenue list for the third consecutive month, followed by Last War . According to data.ai, user spending on both games exceeded $90 million in February. Among the top ten games, Honkai: Star Rail and Blue Archive saw significant increases in revenue, which increased their rankings by 2 and 5 places respectively. The former benefited from the launch of version 2.0 "If I Dream at Midnight" and the launch of new characters, while the latter relied on the third anniversary event of the Japanese service and the update of resources.

Many new games launched in 2024 are among the top 30 in terms of revenue, including X.D. Network 's Let's Go Muffin ( #15 ), Paper Games' Love and Deepspace ( #17 ), Wanda Cinema Games' Saint Seiya: Legend Of Justice ( #22 ) , and Jiangyu Interactive's Top Heroes ( #30 ). The first three games have exceeded $10 million in overseas user spending in February. Let's Go Muffin is currently only available in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, but with its cute cartoon style, casual placement and two-player gameplay, and the launch of the cat-bug cafe event, it has achieved great success in its niche market, with revenue of $18 million in February. Love and Deepspace is making a lot of money in Japan, the United States, and Taiwan. The combined revenue from these three markets alone is as high as $7.5 million. Saint Seiya: Legend Of Justice, a mobile game based on the same IP that was launched in the US market and achieved success, followed the recent popularity of idle RPG games and was re-launched in Japan, where it earned over $10 million in revenue, further demonstrating the impact of IP on the appeal of games. In February, Top Heroes had over 1 million installations in five markets, including the US, Taiwan, Brazil, Japan, and Thailand. User spending in the US and Taiwan markets exceeded $1 million, and the ranking quickly rose to 30th place.

In addition, Top War , Peak Speed, Gossip Harbor , Knives Out , and Seaside Escape have all seen significant improvement in their rankings on the overseas revenue lists.

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Focus

Seaside Escape is a mobile game with a fusion synthesis gameplay from MicroFun . It is also the publisher's second star product to be shortlisted in the top 30 overseas revenue (the other is Gossip Harbor , which has been on the list for a long time). The game adopts the mainstream 3D cartoon style in Europe and the United States, organically combining synthesis gameplay with home decoration and story lines. As of February 2024, it has accumulated 5.7 million downloads and US$48 million in revenue. The United States, South Korea and Japan are the largest markets for games. Relying on frequent content updates and holiday event operations (such as Christmas, Valentine's Day, etc.), the game has successfully ranked among the top five best-selling games in the same category since January 2024, further proving that it is easier to replicate success by deepening the game track.

Four years after Top War became famous, Jiangyu Interactive finally welcomed the next hit game: Top Heroes . This time, the publisher shifted its R&D strategy to the lighter Roguelike ARPG category. The gameplay is similar to a game called Rumble Heroes by Korean publisher PlayHard . In the vertical screen perspective, players can use one-handed operation to control multiple characters to perform operations such as map development, combat, and building upgrades. Although the operation is simple, the game contains multiple systems such as character development, building upgrades, and resource acquisition, which are very effective payment points, and the game has achieved a turnover of more than 11 million US dollars in less than two months since its launch.