
Monthly spend on games per device at $9 - up 45% on 2019.Weekly game downloads at more than one billion - up 25% on 2019.The headline numbers reveal prodigious growth across all the key mobile games metrics: Proof of this comes in App Annie's 2021 Mobile Gaming Tear Down report, which explores the key trends on subgenres, monetization and user acquisition for H1 2021.

But there's no doubt that the Battle Royale genre is currently dominating the attention of players. Of course, this is not a perfect analogy.

Who's winning this fight to the death? In terms of time spent, the Battle Royale sub-genre itself. It's possible to think of the entire mobile gaming industry as a giant Battle Royale showdown: fierce competition, loads of competing genres, only the strongest survive.
