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Games apps: screenshot design benchmarks

How Games apps design their App Store screenshots — theme, caption position, background colours, screenshot counts — measured from 53 listings by LaunchShots.

15%
use a light theme across the set
light 15%mixed 34%dark 51%
15%
put the caption above the phone
above 15%below 15%overlay 4%no caption 66%
6.8
screenshots per listing on average · 36% use 8 or more
4.41
average App Store rating of the analysed apps
Background colours
blue 26%black 15%orange 11%white 9%green 8%

Based on 53 analysed listings in Games. Updated continuously as new apps are analysed. How we measure →

Analysed Games listings

Brawl Stars
dark · caption none · 6 shots
Paper.io 2
light · caption bottom · 5 shots
Block Blast!
dark · caption bottom · 5 shots
Vita Mahjong
dark · caption none · 6 shots
ONE PIECE バウンティラッシュ - アクションゲーム
mixed · caption none · 5 shots
Pokémon GO
dark · caption none · 7 shots
Mahjong Blast
dark · caption none · 6 shots
Sniper 3D: Gun Shooting Games
mixed · caption none · 7 shots
Offline Games - No Wifi Games
dark · caption top · 10 shots
Geometry Dash Lite
dark · caption bottom · 4 shots
Gossip Harbor®: Merge & Story
mixed · caption none · 7 shots
Block Out! - Color Sort Puzzle
dark · caption overlay · 6 shots

How to read this

If you're designing screenshots for a Games app, this is the field you're competing in. A dark theme is the majority choice here, so going the other way is a deliberate way to stand out in search results — where your first screenshot sits next to competitors'. 15% put the caption above the phone; the caption is read first either way, but above-the-phone keeps the text in the thumbnail crop the App Store shows in search. The average listing uses 6.8 screenshots — Apple allows 10, and only 36% use 8 or more, so the later slots are mostly uncontested space for feature depth. Open any listing above to see its exact colours and load them into the editor with one click.

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