However, he declined to speculate on whether other kinds of devices – wearables, for example – are on Facebook’s roadmap. Slinn said Facebook is working hard to help more developers release “cross-platform” social games that run on its website as well as mobile devices in 2015. Star Wars: Commander, Boom Beach, Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff, Crazy Taxi: City Rush and Disco Bees made that list for 2014.įacebook’s games team also chose five favourite up-and-coming games: Solitaire 3 Arena, Cower Defense, Dino Hunter: Deadly Shores, Throne Rush and OMG! Fortune FREE Slots. While several games on Facebook’s top 10 list are also available on smartphones and tablets, the company also announced an additional list of what it sees as the best mobile games using its platform. Slinn added that Facebook is seeing developers emerge from a wider range of countries, including eastern Europe and Russia with games like SuperCity and Throne Rush. “But 2013’s boom in social casino games continued, and we also saw this year that Klondike – a farming game, which is a genre you’d think had been completely saturated – was able to break through with the right gameplay.” “We have seen more and more of the midcore and deep strategy titles succeeding and really prospering on the platform,” said Slinn. He pointed to strategy game Sparta: War of Empires and roleplaying game League of Angels as proof that social games are adopting traditional genres and finding sizeable audiences of gamers.
Slinn said that Facebook saw a diverse range of games become popular on its network in 2014, beyond the enduringly-popular casual puzzler genre epitomised by Cookie Jam and King’s games. “We now have 375 million people playing games with Facebook across different platforms every month. Users love it,” Facebook’s head of games partnerships, EMEA, Bob Slinn told the Guardian. “Cookie Jam has been an amazing success story. The others in the end-of-year chart were: Klondike Kim Kardashian: Hollywod Old Vegas Slots League of Angels Hero Defense SuperCity and Sparta: War of Empires. Candy Crush Soda Saga was one of nine runners-up named by Facebook, along with another game by its publisher King, Bubble Witch Saga 2.
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