Honor of Kings tops May mobile revenue charts with $155.9 million
Honor of Kings kept the May crown at $155.97 million while MONOPOLY GO! and Brawl Stars showed which live-service loops still keep players spending.
Honor of Kings held the top spot in May with $155,971,590, and that number says plenty about where mobile spending still concentrates in 2026. The biggest money continues to flow toward games that can keep players cycling back through fresh events, seasonal drops, and long-running progression systems, while the rest of the chart keeps shuffling around that core reality.
May also brought visible movement on the broader charts, especially on downloads, but the revenue picture at the top stayed stubbornly familiar. GamingonPhone’s May 2026 rankings, built on AppMagic data, still put Honor of Kings far ahead of the pack, even as the month showed that live-service games with frequent updates remain the safest bet for keeping wallets open.
That dominance looked even clearer when stacked against recent history. Honor of Kings made $138,068,441 in April 2026, so May was a strong step up month over month. It was still below the game’s May 2025 peak of $184.2 million, though, which shows just how massive the title’s floor remains even when it is not hitting its highest mark. For players, that kind of consistency usually means one thing: the game is still getting the budget, the events, and the cadence needed to keep the economy hot.
MONOPOLY GO! stayed part of that same gravity well. In early June, Scopely rolled out a full-season crossover with The Simpsons starting June 3, a clear sign that the game is leaning hard into the kind of themed, time-limited content that keeps a live-service board game in constant motion. That matters because MONOPOLY GO! has already shown it can convert that approach into serious earnings, and the new season gives players another reason to log in, chase rewards, and stay inside the loop.
Brawl Stars also pushed back into the conversation after an extended absence from the top rankings. Supercell’s own archive shows a dense burst of activity around the game in May and June, including Release Notes April 2026 dated May 12, a Brawl Cup Event Guide on May 15, and the Formula Brawl event on June 5. Taken together, those updates point to renewed live-ops momentum, the kind that can pull a game back into spending relevance when the cadence gets tight enough.
The May chart was not just a list of winners. It was a snapshot of which formulas still pay: heavyweight staples at the top, seasonal crossovers in the middle, and updated competitive events ready to drag dormant players back in. Honor of Kings sat at the center of that picture, and the games chasing it all looked built from the same truth.
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