Biggest Mobile Esports Games, Ranked

Mobile esports now fills arenas and breaks viewing records. These are six of the biggest mobile games in competitive play, from Mobile Legends and Free Fire to Brawl Stars, Clash Royale, PUBG Mobile and Honor of Kings, with their biggest tournaments, audiences and latest world champions.

How we ranked mobile esports

This list orders mobile games by the biggest peak audience reported for one of their world events. Where a game has no published figure we could confirm, it sits after the games that do. The audience figures come from Esports Charts as quoted in the games’ reference pages, and winners and prize pools come from the organizers’ announcements and event coverage. Figures differ in whether Chinese platforms are counted, so treat them as a guide rather than a precise league table.

Every game here also has real prize money and an official circuit. For other competitive games, see our list of the best competitive FPS games, and for the people who play and stream them, see the biggest female streamers.

1. Mobile Legends: Bang Bang

Moonton released Mobile Legends: Bang Bang in 2016, and it has been free to play ever since. It is a multiplayer online battle arena, or MOBA, for iOS, Android and HarmonyOS in which two teams of five fight across three lanes to destroy the other side’s base. Matches last between 12 and 20 minutes on average.

Moonton runs official regional leagues called the Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Professional League, which feed into the M-Series World Championship. The game has been a medal event at the Southeast Asian Games in 2019, 2021, 2023 and 2025, and in 2026 its esports moved to a five-region structure.

The M7 World Championship ran from 3 to 25 January 2026 in Jakarta. Aurora Gaming PH beat Alter Ego Esports 4-0 in the grand final, the Philippines’ sixth world title in a row, and Dylan “Light” Catipon was named finals MVP. The grand final reached more than 5.68 million peak concurrent viewers the biggest audience a mobile esports event has had

If you like this style of game, see our look at League of Legends: Wild Rift, another mobile MOBA.

2. Free Fire

Garena released Free Fire on 8 December 2017 for Android and iOS. It is a free-to-play battle royale played from a third-person view, and it was the most downloaded mobile game in the world in 2019.

The Free Fire World Series began in 2019. The 2021 edition had a $2 million prize pool and set a record at the time with more than 5.4 million peak live viewers, a mark that Mobile Legends: Bang Bang’s M7 later passed. Free Fire won the Esports Mobile Game of the Year award at the Esports Awards in 2020 and 2021.

The FFWS 2025 Global Finals in Jakarta were won by Buriram United Esports in the Battle Royale mode. Free Fire also keeps making news outside esports, such as when it added Cristiano Ronaldo as a playable character.

3. Brawl Stars

Supercell released Brawl Stars worldwide on 12 December 2018 for iOS and Android. Players pick from more than 100 characters called Brawlers, each with different abilities, and play a range of short game modes against other players.

The first Brawl Stars World Championship was held on 15 and 16 November 2019 in Busan, South Korea, and Nova Esports won it 3-0. The 2020 finals had a base prize pool of $1 million and were played online. In 2024 the World Finals took place in Helsinki alongside Clash Royale and Clash of Clans finals, and reached a peak of more than a million viewers.

The 2025 World Finals were held at DreamHack Stockholm, where Japan’s Crazy Raccoon beat HMBLE 3-0 for a $1 million prize pool. That final is the photo at the top of this page.

4. Clash Royale

Clash Royale is a real-time strategy game from Supercell that mixes collectible cards, tower defense and MOBA ideas. It launched worldwide on 2 March 2016, and battles last three to five minutes.

Red Bull Gaming once called it one of the first games to prove that portable devices can sustain top-level esports. The first world championship, the Crown Championship, was held at the Copper Box Arena in London on 3 December 2017, and the Mexican player Sergio Ramos won the $150,000 top prize.

Supercell started the Clash Royale League in August 2018. Its World Finals reached a peak of more than 140,000 viewers in 2024 and more than 698,000 in 2025, when Mohamed Light won a third world title and a share of a $500,000 prize pool.

5. PUBG Mobile

PUBG Mobile is a free-to-play battle royale co-developed by LightSpeed Studios and PUBG Corporation, and a mobile version of PUBG: Battlegrounds. It was released on Android and iOS on 19 March 2018 and is Tencent and VNG Corporation in different regions. By January 2026 it had around 1.75 billion downloads and had grossed more than $15 billion

Each major region runs its own PUBG Mobile club leagues, which lead to higher levels such as the PUBG Mobile Pro League. The 2026 PUBG Mobile World Cup took place at the Esports World Cup in Paris, where S2G Esports won with 154 points across 18 matches. The event’s total prize pool was $3,025,000.

The game also makes news for the way it polices cheating. Read how it banned nearly two million accounts in a week.

6. Honor of Kings

Honor of Kings is a MOBA developed by TiMi Studio Group and It was first released in mainland China on 25 October 2015, and it is one of the most popular esports in China

The Champion Cup was introduced in 2016 as the game’s equivalent of the League of Legends World Championship, and the King Pro League followed. The Honor of Kings International Championship ran in 2022 and 2023, and in 2024 the game made its first appearance at the Esports World Cup in Saudi Arabia. In 2025 Tencent put $15 million into new professional leagues outside China.

KIC 2025 in Manila was won by HomeBois BSE, who swept NOVA Esports 4-0 in the grand final of a $1 million event.

More mobile esports to watch

Several other mobile games run official tournaments. Riot Games released League of Legends: Wild Rift in October 2020, and Pokémon Unite arrived in 2021 with a first Championship Series with a $1 million prize pool. Call of Duty: Mobile, made by TiMi Studio Group and had a $2 million prize pool at its 2021 world championship, though a later event was cancelled

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Featured image: Brawl Stars World Finals 2025 champions Crazy Raccoon, photo by Adam Lakomy, Supercell. Mobile Legends: Bang Bang: Moonton. Free Fire: Garena. Brawl Stars and Clash Royale: Supercell. PUBG Mobile: Tencent and Krafton. Honor of Kings: Tencent and TiMi Studio.