Madden Leads This Week's List of Emerging Facebook Games

Madden NFL Superstars has finally hit the top of one of our weekly AppData lists. The Electronic Arts spinoff of its Madden franchise has been picking up steam as it goes, an added over half a million players during the past week. Of course, EA has also promoted the game heavily, so it can't yet be considered successful. Here's our emerging games list, which counts fast-growing titles still under a million monthly active users: Top Gainers This Week - Games Name MAU Gain Gain,% 1. Madden NFL Superstars 946,835 +541,879 +134% 2. Critter Island 976,255 +324,537 +50% 3. Ranch Town 798,462 +274,016 +52% 4. La Tomatina 362,796 +227,923 +169% 5. Green Farm 219,596 +195,078 +796% 6. i Like Slots 511,004 +190,368 +59% 7. 小小戰爭 550,530 +181,595 +49% 8. Candy Shop 376,427 +169,956 +82% 9. FantaBook 593,890 +161,967 +37% 10. Cupcake Corner 366,505 +155,329 +74% 11. Robot Unicorn Attack 336,398 +149,092 +80% 12. Warstorm 413,619 +148,826 +56% 13. Chucke la taupe 371,303 +143,018 +63% 14. Bubble Town: Party Planet 869,627 +142,249 +20% 15. Gone Amazon 125,764 +124,252 +8,218% 16. My Sweet Shop 310,562 +120,622 +64% 17. CBSSports.com Franchise Football 553,260 +119,670 +28% 18. Mahjong Trails 485,047 +117,129 +32% 19. Ultimate Fan 223,960 +111,200 +99% 20. Univers des Trois Royaumes 288,754 +107,337 +59% Critter Island, by LOLapps, isn't growing quite as fast as the EA title, and the game appears to be having trouble with its retention as well, drawing only nine percent of its MAUs back as daily active users. But like EA the game is crossing the important million MAU mark, and it's possible the DAU picture could improve with time. Ranch Town is a much older title farming title. We recently talked to the CEO of its maker, Meteor Games, and heard that the company is focusing in on more in-depth games; in the meantime, it appears to be putting fresh resources into promoting its older games. La Tomatina, although a rare Spanish-language game, is not particularly notable, involving a fairly simplistic mechanic of hurling tomatoes at friends' portraits. At number five, Green Farm is a lot more interesting. The recently-released farming game by mobile developer Gameloft is suggesting that better graphics could revive the farming genre. We've recently reviewed Green Farm, as well as Candy Shop and CupCake Corner, which also appear within the list's top 10 -- just click through the links to see our takes.

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Madden Leads This Week's List of Emerging Facebook Games

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