Subway Surfers is world's first game to reach 1 billion downloads on the Play Store

by Cosmin Vasile / Mar 16, 2018, 11:21 AM

Subway Surfers is world's first game to reach 1 billion downloads on the Play Store

Developers SYBO and Kiloo Games have just announced their endless runner Subway Surfers is world's first game to reach 1 billion downloads on Google Play Store.

Subway Surfers made its debut on mobile devices almost six years ago, but the teams behind it never stopped supporting the game and adding new content to it on a monthly basis. According to developers, Subway Surfers was the most downloaded game of 2017.

Apparently, last year the game broke through its all-time annual download record with more than 400 million mostly organic downloads on both Android and iOS platforms. But the story doesn't end here, as SYBO Games Chief Executive Officer, Mathias Gredal Noervig promises more surprises for fans of the endless runner.

We have achieved greatness by combining our strengths at SYBO and Kiloo. The continued growth of the game and brand is our focus, and we are excited about future releases, and the animated short films that are launching later this year. The players will have even more great content to consume.

Out of the 79 world tour visits released by developers, the most popular destinations in Subway Surfers last year were Peru, Saint Petersburg, and Cairo. Seems like a great time to start playing it again, right?

source: SYBO

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15 Comments

1. AngelicusMaximus

Posts: 599; Member since: Dec 20, 2017

Interesting. Google Play still says 500 million.

posted on Mar 16, 2018, 11:27 AM 3

8. pankajxdx

Posts: 3; Member since: Oct 05, 2017

I think they meant Android and iOS combined.

posted on Mar 16, 2018, 1:52 PM 5

2. Eclectech

Posts: 336; Member since: May 01, 2013

Bravo to the developers and those who support the game. The game has worked consistently well for me, since the games came out several years ago.

posted on Mar 16, 2018, 11:27 AM 1

3. crogers2012

Posts: 13; Member since: Nov 22, 2011

I would have to say it being preinstalled on millions of devices from the carrier doesn't have anything to do with that

posted on Mar 16, 2018, 11:48 AM 0

5. cmdacos

Posts: 3764; Member since: Nov 01, 2016

Where do you live that you still have carrier loaded games? Haven't seen that in years.

posted on Mar 16, 2018, 1:03 PM 3

16. acme64

Posts: 121; Member since: Jul 13, 2015

haven't bought a carrier phone in years so i wouldn't know anyway

posted on Mar 18, 2018, 11:39 PM 0

6. JcHnd

Posts: 244; Member since: Apr 30, 2012

Where tho? usually what you get are demos and not the full games, and as the other person said, i havent seen that either in years, now they just put carrier bloatware