December 2024 popular game rankings released: veteran mobile games "King of Glory" and "Peace Elite" are ranked Top 1 and Top 2 on the download chart respectively.

Recently, Qimai Data released the December 2024 popular game rankings, including the top 30 download list and the top 30 revenue list. As for the popular game download list, the top 1 and top 2 are the classic mobile games "Honor of Kings" and "Peace Elite", with "Happy Elimination" rising 3 places to take the top 3 this month. This month, there are a total of 9 new products on the top 30 download list, including "Adventurer's Diary," "Endless Warmth," "One Piece: Ambition" and "Defend Zhejiang Sunflower Great Health," all of which are mobile games officially launched on the Chinese region App Store in December. Under the sea, the casual mobile game "Adventurer's Diary" by Haibi Games ranked in the top 5 in December's download list and performed well. This game is a blend of role-playing, strategy combat, and random event pigeon-like text adventure games. In the game, players become capybaras with wooden swords and green bags on their backs, embarking on an adventure. The game is divided into multiple chapters, defeat elite monsters and bosses in each chapter, survive for a sufficient number of days, and you can clear the game. In addition to the addictive gameplay, the success of this game is also attributed to the protagonist, the capybara. In recent years, the relaxed, healing, emotionally stable capybara has become popular online, leading to a variety of products featuring capybaras. This game quickly rose in popularity due to its unique charm and became a hot element on domestic and international game rankings. Haibi Games quickly captured this trend and successfully captured the traffic. According to Qimai Data, "Adventurer's Diary" entered the top 2 of the domestic iOS game free list on the day of its official launch, performing outstandingly. It is worth mentioning that the paper-folding game "Endless Warmth," a large world dressing game, attracted a lot of attention immediately upon its release. As the first female-oriented open world mobile game, this game continues the core dress-up gameplay of the Warm series and innovates and upgrades on this foundation, adopting a gameplay setting of light combat and heavy exploration. The game's significant leap in category direction and gameplay content generates strong curiosity among players. This mobile game topped the free games list on its public test day on December 3rd and remained in the top ten until December 8th. Looking at the manufacturers of the newly entered games, Tencent has 10 products on the list, NetEase has 6 products on the list, and Le Dou Games also performed well with 2 products on the list, namely "Temple Run 2" and "Subway Surfers." In the popular game revenue list, Tencent's "Honor of Kings" and "Dungeon and Warriors: Origin" took the top two spots in the list, while Dot Dot Interactive's "Endless Winter" rose 1 place from last month to take the top 3. Focusing on the new entries in the revenue list, there are a total of 6 new products in the list. These include "Zone Zero," "Collapse: Starry Sky Railway," "One Piece: Ambition," "FC Football World," "Adventurer's Diary," and "Endless Warmth." Among them, the original IP 2D urban action-adventure game "Zone Zero" by Mihayo led the list, combining elements such as development, storyline, decryption, and combat, with fresh and rich gameplay, widely praised by players. In December, the news of the collaboration between "Zone Zero" and "McDonald's" at the beginning of the month attracted the attention of many players. On Weibo, the hashtag #McDonald's Zone Zero collaboration# had nearly 100 million views in four days, and on Douyin, the related topic had over a billion total views. On the first day of the collaboration, some themed stores were filled with players who came to check it out. Furthermore, "Zone Zero" welcomed a new 1.4 version update on the 17th, and riding on this momentum, the game quickly topped the iOS game bestseller list soon after it went online. This month, there were exciting game collaboration activities. In addition to the collaboration between "Zone Zero" and McDonald's, "Endless Winter" collaborated with "Harbin Ice and Snow World," and Wuxi Online Offline Communication Information Technology Co., Ltd. held simultaneous activities. "Honor of Kings" collaborated with sister game "QQ Speed," with the classic character "Little Orange" making a surprise appearance. "Against the Tides" teamed up with the dark horse of Chinese animation "Young Song Journey" to create a canvas of heroics. Yishijie's "Slow Life in Another World," together with the TV anime "Journey to Another World under the Moonlight," also launched a wonderful collaboration. "Slow Life in Another World" is a casual management mobile game launched by Yishijie in October 2024. The game topped the App Store's free game chart and simulation game chart on the day of its official release. This game cleverly combines fantasy elements of another world with simulation management gameplay. In the game, players no longer play as traditional human protagonists but as magical creatures at the bottom of the food chain of the alternate world, starting from the lowest level, overcoming various difficulties to gradually become the lord of a town, responsible for building and managing the town. As the first collaboration for "Slow Life in Another World," this collaboration version with "Journey to Another World under the Moonlight" has been a huge success.Combining the adventure elements in "The Journey to Another World" with the tone of the game itself, it introduces themed gameplay such as "Emma's Trading Post." The two fantasy worlds blend together, providing players with a double dose of wonderful experiences in the other world.This month, the simulation business game "Business Master" under the Yise World has collaborated with the classic movie "A Chinese Odyssey". Based on the similar courage and spirit of exploration of "starting from small but dare to dream", the two IPs have achieved situational shaping on the basis of emotional resonance, creating an immersive and immersive game experience space for players. As a representative product that has been operating steadily for 5 years, Yise World's "Business Master" has formed an entertainment marketing framework mainly based on the linkage of film and television IPs and celebrity endorsements through diversified and rhythmic layout planning, achieving good results in promoting brand breakthroughs. Currently, using high-quality IPs for cross-marketing has become a new way of promoting mobile games. High-quality IPs have already accumulated a large fan base and profound influence, and leveraging this advantage will make it easier to reach target audiences and potential players, thereby breaking through circle restrictions and expanding the user base. In terms of games entering the charts, similar to last month's situation, action and strategy mobile games continue to be the top two categories with the most entries in the chart. In the Top 30 revenue chart for popular games in December, Tencent had 10 products in the chart, NetEase had 5, and miHoYo had 3.