Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards 2026 winners revealed

• Loom Games is the story of the evening, sweeping Best Developer, Game of the Year (Pixel Flow!) and Rising Star.
• Arknights: Endfield wins People’s Choice and AudioVisual Excellence.
• Scopely completes a treble: Best Publisher, Best Forever Franchise and Company Culture Champion.
• María Sayans is known as Mobile Legend.

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The Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards 2026, in partnership with Samsung Gaming Hub, has topped this yr’s winners of the Mobile Games Awards.

Held throughout Gamescom week, the ceremony introduced the most effective of the cell video games enterprise again to the Gürzenich Köln venue in Cologne for its ninth version. 

The massive winners

Istanbul studio Loom Games was the story of the evening, named Best Developer as its debut title Pixel Flow! took each Game of the Year and Best Game Innovation.

The Rising Star award additionally went to Loom Games co-founder and CEO Kübra Gündoğan – the driving power behind that very same Pixel Flow! success.

The hybrid-casual puzzler launched in 2025, raced previous 10 million gamers and prompted Scopely to purchase a majority stake within the studio at a $1 billion-plus valuation.

Elsewhere, Arknights: Endfield received the Pocket Gamer People’s Choice Award. Hypergryph’s 3D open-world spin-off from the studio’s hit tower-defence collection launched again in January off the again of greater than 30 million pre-registrations. The sport additionally received AudioVisual Excellence.

Scopely, in the meantime, was named Best Publisher, on a robust evening that additionally noticed it raise Best Forever Franchise for Monopoly GO! and Company Culture Champion.

The Mobile Legend award went to María Sayans, CEO of ustwo video games and chair of UK commerce physique Ukie. This lifetime achievement award recognises Sayans’ in depth profession spanning greater than twenty years, together with senior roles at EA’s DICE, Fenris Creations and ustwo video games.

Here are all of the winners from the evening.

Pocket Gamer People’s Choice Award 2026

Winner: Arknights: Endfield

Honourable mentions: Neverness to Everness; Racing Master

Best Advertising & UA Service

Winner: adjoe

Honourable mentions: Almedia; Exmox

Best Game Innovation

Winner: Pixel Flow!

Honourable mentions: Arknights: Endfield; Mindset GO!

Best Analytics / Data Tool

Winner: Sensor Tower

Honourable mentions: GameAnalytics; Ktrl by Kohort

Webstore of the Year

Winner: Supercell Store (Supercell)

Honourable mentions: June’s Journey (Wooga); Monopoly GO! (Scopely)

AudioVisual Excellence

Winner: Arknights: Endfield

Honourable mentions: Hatch Dragons; Star Trek: Fleet Command

Best Support Tool

Winner: AmberMarok by Amber

Honourable mentions: Metaplay; PlaytestCloud

Best Development Partner

Winner: Amber

Honourable mentions: Keywords Studios; Room 8 Group

Best Web Game

Winner: Imagine Island

Honourable mentions: Deadly Descent; Dig Out of Prison

Best Developer

Winner: Loom Games

Honourable mentions: SciPlay; Snowprint Studios

Best Payment Service Provider

Joint winners: Appcharge and Xsolla

Honourable point out: Tebex

Rising Star

Winner: Kübra Gündoğan (Loom Games)

Best Use of IP or Licence

Winner: Free Fire x NARUTO SHIPPUDEN Chapter 2: Ninja War

Honourable mentions: Monopoly GO! x Hello Kitty and Friends; RAID: Shadow Legends × Alien & Predator

Best Marketing Campaign

Winner: Jackpot Party x Carnival: Cruise A Day (SciPlay)

Honourable mentions: MARVEL Strike Force ‘Isn’t That Fantastic?’ (Scopely); Toon Blast x Giancarlo Esposito (Peak)

Best Trending AppGallery Game

Winner: Petal Paws

Honourable mentions: Last Asylum: Plague; MapleStory R: Evolution

Leading App Store Experience

Winner: HUAWEI AppGallery

Honourable mentions: Epic Games Store; Samsung Galaxy Store

Best Indie Developer

Winner: Tech Tree Games

Honourable mentions: Itatake; Runaway Play

Company Culture Champion

Winner: Scopely

Honourable mentions: Geeklab; SciPlay

Best Forever Franchise

Winner: Monopoly GO!

Honourable mentions: CSR Racing 2; Pokémon GO

Best Use of AI

Winner: Meshy

Honourable mentions: Amazon Game Studios / Amber; Layer.ai

Best Publisher

Winner: Scopely

Honourable mentions: SayGames; Unico Studio

Game of the Year

Winner: Pixel Flow!

Honourable mentions: Arknights: Endfield; Block Blast!; Kingdom Rush Battles

Mobile Legend

Winner: María Sayans

An enormous congratulations to everybody who walked away with a trophy – and to each finalist who made the shortlists.