MOBILE GAMES

Unity for mobile game development

Q: How can I use the Universal Render Pipeline (URP)?

You can build a mobile game that runs on a variety of platforms by using the URP. This detailed technical e-book walks you through an introduction to URP, including lighting, shaders, and more. Read more here.

Q: What are best practices to follow for making mobile games?

Learn how Alt Shift, Broken Arms Games, Light Brick Studio, Robot Squid, and Superplus Games navigate the challenges and opportunities of the rapidly expanding mobile game market.

Q: How can I successfully market a mobile game?

Check out an e-book created to help you develop a soft launch strategy, market effectively, and get more out of your creative assets. Read more.

Q: How can I build a live service mobile business?

Learn how to set up an innovative live service, design impactful content, and improve retention and engagement in your game with this free course.

Q: How do I maximize revenue from my game?

Learn how to increase your mobile game revenue in this free course for indie developers.

Q: What are best practices for maximizing long-term player value?

Learn how minimizing user acquisition costs and maximizing player value can lead to a strong lifetime value metric.

Explore how to make a mobile game, optimize performance, deliver consistent updates, and use proven solutions for mobile game monetization, user acquisition, and publishing.

70%+

of the top 1,000 mobile games were made with Unity¹

20+

Unity customers can deploy their projects to 20+ platforms²

of the top 100 games use Unity to grow their games³

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How to make a mobile game

Explore mobile game development for iOS and Android with resources on creating games, monetization strategies, and user acquisition best practices.

Create a mobile game

Learn to create and publish a fully-polished, isometric 3D battle tank game.

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Set up LiveOps

Ship mobile games with Unity Live Services integrated.

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Grow a mobile game

Learn the basics of monetization and user acquisition.

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Solutions across the entire mobile game lifecycle

Live operations

Build LiveOps features and learn how players engage.

Explore LiveOps

Mobile game monetization

Implement mobile monetization with Unity ad tools.

Start monetizing

Mobile game user acquisition

Reach high-quality users with Unity acquisition tools.

Start scaling

Publishing

Publish with a data-driven, developer-focused team.

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Mobile games made with Unity

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Marvel Snap

Second Dinner

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Subway Surfers

SYBO

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Fantasian

Mistwalker

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Monument Valley 3

ustwo games

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Disney Magic Match 3D

Jam City

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Minion Rush

Gameloft

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Sonic Dream Team

Hardlight, SEGA

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LEGO® Bluey

StoryToys

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Build for all major platforms

iOS game development

Develop for iOS

Android game development

Develop for Android

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Frequently asked questions

How can I use the Universal Render Pipeline (URP)?

What are best practices to follow for making mobile games?

How can I learn to create a mobile game?

Unity Learn has a wide variety of tutorials and sample projects to get you started. We recommend just a couple of examples to help you dive in:

Trash Dashis an endless runner sample, teaching coding architecture as well as applications of Cloud Build, Ads/IAP, and Unity Analytics.

Tanks! is a tutorial project that will teach things like basic input, physics, audio and mixing, and game architecture.

Find more learning examples at Unity Learn.

How can I successfully market a mobile game?

How can I build a live service mobile business?

How do I maximize revenue from my game?

What are best practices for maximizing long-term player value?

Disclaimers:

As of Q4 2022. Source: Apptopia. Disclaimer: Top mobile games is a blended number defined by the top 1,000 games from each of the Google Play Store and iOS App Store.
As of September 2023. Source: Derived from internal Unity resources.
As of 2023-10-25. Source: Data.ai. Disclaimer: Top 100 games based on 7-day average of worldwide downloads, both on Apple App and Google Play Stores, as of September 19, 2023 from data.ai.