Dog Show Friends is on Top of This Week's List of Emerging Facebook Games

Dog Show Friends is a Purina-branded game by 4mm Games, has been showing strong success since launching last month. Players can feed their virtual pet with Puppy Chow, Beneful, and other Purina products, and train their puppy to learn new tricks and play with toys. It has a bright and crisp art style and is easy to learn how to play.

Top Gainers This Week – Games

My Shops is a retail management and decoration game that we previewed back in December. Instead of running the day to day business inside a shop, My Shops gives players an outdoor street view of their different shops and allows them to decorate the outside. The objective is to keep the shops stocked with supplies that the customers want in order to increase the number of customers. The more customers a player has, the more coins and XP they will earn so that new types of shops can be unlocked. My Shops has been on a steady incline in terms of monthly and daily active users and has a better than average retention metric with 18-21% of its monthly players logging in to play the game each day. My Shops is the first game for developer Pretty Simple, and so far seems to be a solid debut.

MyGame is a games portal developed by popular casual games website King.com. The application features 28 different Flash games each with leaderboards to compare scores with other Facebook friends who are also playing the games. Titles on the portal include Farm King, Midas Mahjong, Magic Spinball, and Bubble Witch. MyGame reached a peak of just under 900,000 MAU in December, and has been crawling its way back up to where it currently stands at 523,000 MAU.

The data in this post comes via AppData, our data service tracking growth and trends across the Facebook platform.

Tami Baribeau is Senior Community Manager at ZipZapPlay and a contributor to Inside Social Games.