This report, focusing on the multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) games genre in 2024 and 2025, examines key statistics in the global market, users' genre preferences, financial performance, and the effects of the eSports field. Based on Statista data, League of Legends (LoL) remains the leader in popularity in streaming and eSports and in January 2025 recorded more than 21.4 million weekly hours watched on Twitch. In the revenue-generation segment through in-app purchases (IAP), Honor of Kings in 2025, with more than 895 million dollars, is at the top.
The striking trend in this report is the shift of the market's focus from PC games to mobile. For example, Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, with 8.3 million downloads in June 2025, has become the most popular mobile MOBA game. Also, Chinese and Indian users have allocated the largest share of mobile revenue to MOBA and role-playing.
In terms of genre popularity, in America, Brazil, and the United Kingdom, the action and action-adventure genres have the most fans, but in China casual games have taken the top spot. In South Korea, puzzle and quiz are the most popular mobile genres.
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Machine-translated from Persian by Namafar; the Persian original is authoritative. Read the original in Persian