Games, by the numbers

TPG TECNOLOGIA DA INFORMACAO LTDA has 201 games out under a single publisher name, more than nearly anyone else in the category. Those 201 titles pulled in 439,175 ratings combined, just 0.1% of every rating Games has on record. Volume alone doesn't buy attention here, and TPG's numbers make that obvious. Pricing follows the same pattern. Out of the 123,250 tracked apps, 92.7% are free and 7.3% charge something. Of the ones that do charge, 2,730 land in the $0.01-0.99 range, 2,779 land in the $1-2.99 range, and only 617 apps break past $10. Paying for a game in this category is basically a rounding error.

Voodoo is the exception here: its 195 apps have racked up 29,276,981 ratings, 4.1% of the category total, way ahead of anyone else on this list. AI Games FZ comes next with 193 apps and 14,608,434 ratings, another 2.1%. Add TPG's 201 apps to those two and you get the three biggest publishers, each sitting around 200 titles, controlling 6.3% of all ratings in the category. BFG Entertainment Inc. brings 186 apps and 629,110 ratings. Yso Corp also has 186 apps but only 145,722 ratings, under 0.1% of the total. DO GAMES LIMITED has 182 apps and 55,194 ratings, also under 0.1%. Publishing close to 200 titles under one name buys almost no attention on its own.

Look at individual games instead of publishers and the picture flips. Roblox alone carries 19,971,092 ratings. 和平精英 holds 15,379,981, 王者荣耀 holds 15,000,466, 金铲铲之战 holds 8,536,144, and 地铁跑酷 - 开罗奇旅启程 holds 5,358,276. None of these games came from a publisher pumping out 200 titles; they're live-service and social games that people keep opening year after year. 8 Ball Pool™ adds 4,758,631, 迷你世界 adds 4,079,036, and Candy Crush Saga adds 3,994,414. It's repeat play that gets rewarded here, not sheer novelty.

Across 92,252 rated apps, the median rating comes out to 4.6. That sounds high on its own, but the spread backs it up: 45,884 apps sit at 4.5 stars or higher, and only 9,108 fall below 3.0. Games as a category rates well almost across the board, top titles included. Median download size lands at 132 MB, though the size distribution is a bit lopsided. 53,714 apps fall between 50 and 200 MB, while 9,171 apps run 500 MB or more, a heavy tail built mostly from the same live-service titles sitting at the top of the ratings chart. Put a 4.6 median rating next to a 132 MB median size and the takeaway is simple: players will tolerate a big install if the game actually delivers.

Only 46,523 apps in the category got an update in the past twelve months, well under half of the 123,250 tracked total. Most of the Games catalog just sits there unmaintained, out of the running entirely. This is a category built on a small active core with a long, quiet tail behind it.

None of that changes what actually matters when you're picking a game to install. Skip the publisher name entirely. A company with 200 apps to its name, like TPG or Yso Corp, tells you nothing about quality, only that it ships fast. Look at the rating count instead. Roblox and Candy Crush Saga earned tens of millions of ratings because people genuinely keep coming back, and nobody fakes a number that size overnight. Most of the category is free anyway, so the real cost of a bad pick is storage space, and that cost only grows once you cross the 500 MB mark.