Player spending in action genre mobile games grew almost 70% in the US in 2021 to over $966 million.
That’s according to the latest data from SensorTower which also shows that action was the fastest rising genre with Open World Adventures scoring the lead for the top sub-genre at over $418 million in spending. That’s an increase of 3.5x over the previous year and was driven by games including Genshin Impact and miHoYo.
The second fastest-growing genre by revenue was hyper casual which rose 43% to $111 million.
