Tencent says Honour of Kings becomes first game to average over 100mn daily users across any platform

Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings said its marquee mobile game Honour of Kings has become the first game in history across any platform to average more than 100 million daily active users.

At a live streamed event celebrating the fifth anniversary of Honour of Kings on Sunday night, Tencent’s TiMi Studio, the developer of the game, revealed that the game had averaged 100 million daily users for the first ten months of the year, which marks a new world record, according to the company.

Honour of Kings is a multiplayer game, wildly popular in China, where a team of five heroes go up against another team of five. TiMi Studio said the game will also be getting two spin-off games as well as two TV shows. While TiMi did not specify what genres the new games will cover, the trailers suggest one will be a horizontal side-scrolling action game.

According to data from app tracking firms such as Sensor Tower and App Annie, Supercell once had four of its top games, including Clash of Clans, achieve over 100 million daily active users collectively, but no single game has averaged 100 million daily active users across a 10-month period.

According to Sensor Tower, Honour of Kings was the world’s most lucrative game in September after racking up US$240 million in sales, with 96 per cent of its revenue coming from China.

Epic Games has said that Fortnite, one of the most popular games in the West, has 350 million registered users. Data disclosed by Epic’s lawsuit against Apple earlier this year amid a revenue sharing dispute revealed that the game’s daily active user count across all platforms was around 25 million.