Pikmin Bloom has virtually outearned all of 2025 in simply half a 12 months.
Spending has rocketed in Taiwan, just lately accounting for greater than 50% of world spend.
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Strolling recreation Pikmin Bloom has seen speedy progress over the primary half of 2026, with month-to-month participant spend peaking at greater than double its earlier document.
In line with AppMagic estimates, Pikmin Bloom has generated $35.7 million between Google Play and the App Retailer throughout H1 2026. That’s already 94% of the $38.1m generated over the whole lot of 2025, the sport’s most profitable 12 months to this point.
Whereas lifetime income has been led by Japan, contributing 49% of earnings from the key app shops, throughout H1 2026 the nation ranked second at simply 23%. Slightly, Taiwan has taken a latest lead with 52% of world spending this H1.
Gamers within the nation spent $18.5m in-game thus far this 12 months, a 902% enhance over H1 2025.
This has introduced complete lifetime income to $139.4m between the 2 main shops.
Flowering in Taiwan
Pikmin Bloom has been rising year-over-year since its launch in November 2021, steadily growing its participant spending and scaling sufficiently to introduce real-world occasions akin to Pokémon Go and Monster Hunter Now.
Like these bigger Niantic titles, Pikmin Bloom was acquired by Scopely as a part of a $3.5 billion deal final 12 months.
Since then, whereas Monster Hunter Now has made extra lifetime income than Pikmin Bloom, the latter is making extra month-to-month income in 2026.
Bloom was already blossoming previous to the acquisition however has since reached even higher heights. Previous to its 2026 growth, document month-to-month spending of $3.6m was achieved in December 2024. That was surpassed with $3.7m spent in February 2026, and the sport continued via three consecutive months of world progress thereafter.
Now, Pikmin Bloom’s new income peak is $8.7m. This was achieved in Could 2026, with 56% of that spending coming from Taiwan alone. A world decline to $7.1m in June broke the expansion pattern however nonetheless marked the sport’s second-best month ever. Once more, Taiwan accounted for greater than half of all spending.
In the meantime, spending in Japan was truly down 8% year-over-year in comparison with H1 2025.
The sport has been out there in Taiwan since 2021 however started to spike in installs within the nation throughout March 2024, from roughly 5,000 per 30 days earlier than to a minimum of 20,000 thereafter. This steadily grew to greater than 40,000 month-to-month installs as of October 2025, when Scopely tapped into the budding viewers with a real-world occasion referred to as Pikmin Bloom Tour 2025: Kaohsiung.
After the occasion in Taiwan, installs within the nation hit a then-record 124,000 in November 2025 and continued to snowball, reaching a peak of virtually 700,000 contemporary downloads this March.
Surging curiosity has even resulted in considerations on-line round useful resource shortage. One apprehensive participant posted on the Pikmin Bloom help web page this February, stating that “city areas are overflowing with gamers, however the provide of mushrooms is nowhere close to sufficient to fulfill demand”.
Scopely is evidently seeking to proceed capitalising on Pikmin Bloom’s newfound reputation in Taiwan, with a Gold Seedling out there in-game for gamers who go to Xpark Aquarium in Taoyuan, Taiwan between July 1st and September thirtieth. This Seedling will sprout right into a pink, blue or yellow Coral Decor Pikmin at random.
The developer isn’t focusing solely on Taiwan, both. The sport’s fourth most-lucrative market, South Korea, was residence to Pikmin Bloom Journey 2026: Seoul in Could, a paid occasion with particular missions, encounters with particular Decor Pikmin, unique Mii costumes and extra.
Past the document income seen this 12 months, Pikmin Bloom additionally has a devoted internet store for D2C purchases, which means its precise earnings this 12 months are possible even greater.
Learn extra about Pikmin Bloom on our sister website, PocketGamer.com.
