Fire Emblem Heroes vs Minecraft: Play with Friends!

Fire Emblem Heroes

Nintendo Co., Ltd.
App Store
$705.8K/mo
~$8.47M/yr · 19.5M installs
VS

Minecraft: Play with Friends!

Mojang
App Store
$22.90M/mo
~$274.85M/yr · 122.9M installs
Revenue winner Minecraft: Play with Friends! wins +3145% vs other
Installs winner Minecraft: Play with Friends! wins +529% vs other
MAU winner Minecraft: Play with Friends! wins +131% vs other
Rating winner Fire Emblem Heroes wins +6% vs other

Why Minecraft: Play with Friends! is winning

Top 3 reasons - backed by the public App Store / Play Store numbers.

  1. Minecraft: Play with Friends! earns roughly 32× more per month than Fire Emblem Heroes - $22.90M vs $705.8K.
  2. Aggressive pricing. Minecraft: Play with Friends! undercuts at $3.99/mo vs $9.49/mo - converts a higher % of free users.
  3. Bigger install base. Minecraft: Play with Friends! has ~122.9M lifetime installs vs Fire Emblem Heroes's ~19.5M - 6.3× the funnel top.

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Side-by-side metrics

Bars scale to whichever app is bigger on that row. Green = winner.

Fire Emblem Heroes
vs
Minecraft: Play with Friends!
Monthly revenue (est.)?
$705.8K
$22.90M
Annual revenue (est.)
$8.47M
$274.85M
Lifetime installs (est.)
19.5M
122.9M
Monthly active users (est.)?
2.9M
6.8M
App Store rating
4.76★
4.51★
Total ratings
130K
819K
US grossing rank
-
=
-
Cheapest monthly sub
$9.49
$3.99
IAP tiers detected
10 tiers
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10 tiers

Fire Emblem Heroes

Nintendo Co., Ltd.
App Store
Category
Games
Price
Free
Released
Feb 2, 2017
Last updated
Jun 4, 2026
File size
115.8 MB
Content rating
12+
Version
10.6.0
Languages
English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese +2 more
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Minecraft: Play with Friends!

Mojang
App Store
Category
Games
Price
USD6.99
Released
Nov 17, 2011
Last updated
Jun 25, 2026
File size
1.32 GB
Content rating
9+
Version
26.32
Languages
Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German +16 more
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FAQ

Which makes more money, Fire Emblem Heroes or Minecraft: Play with Friends!? v
Minecraft: Play with Friends! earns about $22.90M per month, while Fire Emblem Heroes earns about $705.8K. That is a 32.5× revenue gap (~$22.20M more per month for Minecraft: Play with Friends!). Annual revenue: Fire Emblem Heroes ≈ $8.47M/year, Minecraft: Play with Friends! ≈ $274.85M/year. Estimates are derived from public App Store signals - grossing rank, scraped IAP tiers, ratings and category benchmarks.
Which has more downloads, Fire Emblem Heroes or Minecraft: Play with Friends!? v
Minecraft: Play with Friends! leads with about 122.9M estimated downloads vs 19.5M for Fire Emblem Heroes - a 6.3× gap. Fire Emblem Heroes's App Store downloads are estimated from 130K ratings × the standard 1:75 ratio. Minecraft: Play with Friends!'s App Store downloads are estimated from 819K ratings.
Are Fire Emblem Heroes and Minecraft: Play with Friends! in the same App Store category and competing for the same money? v
Yes - both apps sit in the Games category, which means they compete directly for the same paying users and category-level wallet share. Direct competitors, head-to-head.
What in-app purchases and subscription pricing do Fire Emblem Heroes and Minecraft: Play with Friends! offer? v
Fire Emblem Heroes: IAP range 10 tiers detected. Minecraft: Play with Friends!: IAP range 10 tiers detected. Fire Emblem Heroes runs a "Free game · IAP-driven (8 packs + 2 sub, ~$0.30/MAU)" monetization model; Minecraft: Play with Friends! runs "Paid app ($6.99)". Scraped tier prices and detected subscription pricing drive the bulk of the per-app revenue estimate above.
Which has better ratings, Fire Emblem Heroes or Minecraft: Play with Friends!? v
Fire Emblem Heroes edges ahead with ★ 4.8 vs ★ 4.5 (gap of 0.3 stars). Rating volume: Fire Emblem Heroes 130K ratings, Minecraft: Play with Friends! 819K ratings. Higher rating volume = stronger ASO signal even when star averages are close.
How accurate are these Fire Emblem Heroes vs Minecraft: Play with Friends! revenue estimates? v
Directional - typically within 2-3× of actual money earned for popular apps. The $705.8K for Fire Emblem Heroes and $22.90M for Minecraft: Play with Friends! are derived from App Store grossing rank, scraped IAP tiers, ratings volume and category benchmarks (Games) - net of the 15-30% Apple/Google store cut. Real revenue depends on country mix, retention, refunds and ad fill rate, none of which Apple or Google publish.
How do I compare Fire Emblem Heroes or Minecraft: Play with Friends! to a different App Store app? v
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