- India’s top downloads in 2025 favored simple, familiar, and accessible games over heavy, story-driven titles.
- Casual titles and board games dominated downloads, while shooters delivered deeper but narrower engagement.
- Culturally familiar and locally themed games converted everyday habits into massive installs.
India maintained its position as one of the world's largest mobile gaming markets in 2025, with download patterns favoring accessibility over complexity. According to AppMagic, casual titles, digital board games, and locally themed experiences substantially outperformed globally marketed shooters and role-playing games.
The year's download leaders shared common characteristics: minimal hardware requirements, cultural familiarity, and integration into daily routines rather than immersive storytelling. These titles frequently converted everyday habits into sustained engagement, demonstrating that installation volume in India's mobile market operates independently from production scale or marketing budgets.
Board games and endless runners dominated India's 2025 mobile game download charts, with traditional tabletop experiences adapted for digital play capturing significant market share. Games based on carrom and ludo leveraged existing cultural knowledge, reducing onboarding friction and enabling rapid adoption across demographic segments.
Regional themes also proved effective. Titles featuring Indian roads, motorcycles, and locally recognizable environments achieved substantial installation numbers through hyper-local design rather than universal appeal. This pattern underscored the commercial viability of market-specific development in India's mobile gaming economy.
Below are India's ten most downloaded games of 2025, ranked by installation volume according to AppMagic data.
AppMagic Ranks Top Downloaded Mobile Games in India
10. Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI)
Genre: Battle royale shooter
Developer / Publisher: KRAFTON
Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) is the India-specific version of PUBG Mobile, built to meet local data and regulatory constraints. It has over 240 million downloads in India, demonstrating its widespread popularity. BGMI, which has up to 100-player matches, diminishing play zones, and competitive multiplayer modes, is still one of India's most well-known shooters.
BGMI’s ranking of No. 10 shows consistent installs fueled by esports prominence and returning gamers, rather than widespread first-time adoption. The game’s maker KRAFTON, will also lead a new $200M USD investment fund in Asia, collaborating with South Korean peers Naver and Mirae Asset to expand beyond gaming into a broader pool of Internet businesses, mainly in India.
9. Subway Princess Runner
Genre: Endless runner
Developer / Publisher: IVYMOBILE
Subway Princess Runner is a conventional endless runner that follows the genre's standard strategy of avoiding obstacles, collecting coins, and chasing scores. With broad Android compatibility and low system requirements, the game has gained momentum in emerging mobile economies, notably India, where casual runners continue to score well on download rankings; globally, the game has over 500M downloads.
The game’s continued prominence shows the persistent preference for simple, low-friction mobile games over extensive advancement or competitive play. Many industry watchers, however, point out that Subway Princess Runner closely matches Subway Surfers in mechanics and theme, and might be classified as a clone/variant in the endless runner genre.
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8. Subway Surfers
Genre: Endless runner
Developer / Publisher: SYBO Games (originally co-developed with Kiloo)
Subway Surfers, which was released in 2012, is still one of the most popular mobile games in the world, crossing 4 billion lifetime downloads in 2023. In India, its sustained popularity is due to frequent seasonal updates, quick gameplay accessibility, and compatibility with a wide range of devices. The game remains at the top of the charts due to longevity rather than innovation.
7. Carrom Pool: Disc Game
Genre: Digital board game
Developer / Publisher: Miniclip
Miniclip created and launched Carrom Pool: Disc Game, a digital reinvention of the traditional carrom board game. It offers fast, competitive online multiplayer matches with realistic mechanics and simple touch controls. In India, where carrom is a long-standing social pleasure, the game has drawn millions of players, highlighting how culturally known tabletop games adapt well to mobile formats that facilitate short, social sessions. Carrom Pool has hundreds of millions of global installs, with over 500M downloads on Android alone.
6. Indian Bikes Driving 3D
Genre: Driving / simulation
Developer / Publisher: Rohit Gaming Studio
One of the clearest examples of local developer success, Indian Bikes Driving 3D focuses on Indian roads, bikes, and free-roam mechanics rather than structured missions. Its appeal lies in relatability and sandbox freedom, underscoring the power of hyper-local design in India’s download economy. The game also focuses on casual stunt play across various roads and locations, rather than planned missions.
Indian Bikes Driving 3D has accounted for over 100M downloads on Android alone, making it a notable accomplishment for a small studio.
Rohit Gaming Studio
5. Zupee: Play Ludo Online
Genre: Board & casual skill games
Developer / Publisher: Zupee
Zupee's ludo games reimagines the traditional board game with faster, more competitive variants such as Ludo Supreme, Ludo Supreme League, and Ludo Turbo. By focusing on short online matches and multiplayer skill play, it was able to retain high installs until 2025. Reportedly, by mid-2025, the company's user base had reached over 150M. Zupee presently offers solely free-to-play experiences in India after discontinuing real-money gaming format under the country’s 2025 Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill.
4. Pizza Ready!
Genre: Casual / simulation time‑management
Developer / Publisher: Supercent, Inc.
Pizza Ready! is a mobile casual/simulation time management game where players manage and build a pizza restaurant. Supercent, Inc. created and published it, and it is available in all major app stores. The game's mechanics and management loop are similar to those found in casual and time-management games popular on mobile devices. It currently has over 100 Million installs globally.
3. Cricket League
Genre: Sports (cricket)
Developer / Publisher: Miniclip
Cricket League is a mobile cricket game created and distributed by Miniclip. The game focuses on short, fast-paced 2-over matches and real-time multiplayer, with easy-to-use controls rather than lengthy simulations. The game has performed well in India's Android sports game rankings, indicating high local interest. The sport's rich cultural significance in India is projected to drive strong demand for cricket-themed mobile games.
2. Free Fire: Winterlands
Genre: Battle royale shooter
Developer / Publisher: Garena
Free Fire is a free-to-play battle royale shooter for Android and iOS. Its seasonal Winterlands special adds snowy settings, new activities, holiday rewards, and unique dynamics like snowboarding and the Dreamport airship. These activities typically take place between December and January and return each year with new enhancements. While the original Garena Free Fire was banned in India in February 2022 due to security concerns, it still has a significant player base in the country. Additionally, Free Fire MAX is also playable and quite popular in the country.
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1. Ludo King
Genre: Digital board game
Developer / Publisher: Gametion Technologies
Ludo King remains India's most downloaded mobile game, surpassing 1.25B all-time downloads by mid-2025. The game supports both online and offline multiplayer and its dominance is structural. It has ultra-low hardware requirements, regional language support, and universal familiarity make it nearly immune to shifting trends.
What AppMagic’s 2025 Rankings Signal
India's 2025 mobile game download rankings reflect a market structure where volume, accessibility, and utility determine success more than production values or marketing scale. The pattern resembles mass transit infrastructure: the most downloaded games function like commuter systems with universal access and low barriers to entry, while globally marketed titles operate like express services serving narrower audiences despite higher feature density.
