The Most Popular Gacha Games of February, 2023

Gacha games are always fluctuating. Whether a game is doing good or bad is entirely dependent on what banner is currently available, what content was recently released, and what the competition is doing.

Despite that, there are certain Gacha games that continue to outperform others, leading them to eclipse the vast majority of other games within the genre. Genshin Impact, Arknights, Honkai: Star Rail, Blue Archive, Raid: Shadow Legends. Whether a game is good or not is of no concern to players that are willing to dump thousands, tens of thousands – or even in some instances, hundreds of thousands of dollars into a game. 

With this in mind, I’ve taken on the responsibility to report on the monthly earnings for every major Gacha game. So you know where your favorite game stands in the sea of Gacha – including total downloads.

Do note: This is pertaining to Global earnings and downloads – disregarding other regions (China, Japan, Korea etc.,) and will only feature Mobile earnings (not including PC/console financials.)

At #1 we have Genshin Impact, which has managed to retain a monopoly on the market moving into the new year, although they saw a decrease in total revenue compared to last month. A decline from $127 million dollars totaling China and Global to $118 million dollars.
Global alone made $63 million dollars, to put this into perspective for other titles. There were still upwards of 3 million new downloads, however.

While we can only track NIKKE’s Global earnings, it managed to actually see an increase in revenue – from $43 million dollars up to $47 million dollars earned in total. With this, it managed to maintain its #2 spot.
People thought NIKKE would see a very rapid, very steep decline but contrary to popular belief, the game is doing incredibly well, managing over half a million new downloads this month.

Fate/Grand Order maintains its grip on #3, with a nice increase over its previous months earnings from $42 million dollars to $45 million dollars between Japan and Global. It also saw over 360,000 new downloads – a whopping increase over last month’s 40,000.

Uma Musume comes in at #4 as – within Japan, it continues to see incredible success, increasing from $28 million dollars to $41 million dollars last month. Yet still only a few thousand total downloads. Meaning the game isn’t growing in size, but current players are spending more than ever.

Arknights comes in at #6 with quite the sizeable increase from its previous month as well. Arknights made $18 million dollars last month, compared to the $3.4 million dollars it made the month before it. And still managed over 300,000 new downloads. That is absolutely crazy.

Diablo Immortal comes in at #7 with a whopping $17 million dollars earned. That is the same as its previous month. It also managed hundreds of thousands of new downloads, going to show that bad, pay to win, predatory games can still be successful.

Raid: Shadow Legends comes in at #8 with $17 million dollars earned, down from its previous month’s $19 million dollars. Still, the game managed 1 million new downloads – an absolutely astonishing number given the type and quality of game it is.

#9 is interestingly enough, Memento Mori, which saw an uptick in earnings from $12 million dollars, to $14 million dollars. It also saw 300,000 new downloads, but this can be attributed to the fact that it’s still technically a new game. Although it’s earning a lot more than most new releases.

Project Sekai manages to take #11 with $10.9 million dollars earned via both Japan and Global. This is on par with what it made the previous month. It also managed to accumulate over 300,000 new downloads.

Coming in at #12 is The 7 Deadly Sins Grand Cross, making a cumulative total of $10 million dollars between Global and Japan, up slightly higher than the previous month’s $9 million. Interestingly, there were only 20,000 new downloads across both regions.

Eversoul – which just launched last month managed $9 million dollars in total earnings Globally, comes in at #13. There were 1.2 million new downloads for the game, which are pretty impressive numbers. Admittedly, I had a lot of fun in Eversoul.

#14 is Heaven Burns Red, a Japanese exclusive that has managed to earn enough to be included in the top 15 Gacha games every month since I started doing this, and continues again with $8 million dollars earned, tying in with the previous month’s $8 million dollars. Like many Japanese exclusives, there were very few new downloads – a mere 20,000.