India’s mobile gaming industry set to treble in value by 2025: Report

Pune: The size of India’s mobile gaming market is set to treble in the next four years, a new report has said, driven by a 500-million-strong digitally native population aged 15-35.

The country is already the world’s largest mobile gaming market in terms of app downloads, according to Sensor Tower data, contributing up to 12% of the world’s total.

India’s mobile gaming market will be worth $6-7 billion in 2025 from $1.8 billion at present, according to the report titled ‘Building up the e-gaming ecosystem of India and the influence of smartphones’ by Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), RedSeer and OnePlus. While casual gaming (Angry Birds, Ludo King) is the most popular genre in India, hardcore games like Battlegrounds Mobile India and Free Fire generate four times as much revenue and user engagement.