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Games apps: screenshot design benchmarks

How Games apps design their App Store screenshots — theme, caption position, background colours, screenshot counts, caption length — measured from 1866 listings by LaunchShots.

18%
use a light theme across the set
light 18%mixed 43%dark 38%
13%
put the caption above the phone
above 13%below 11%overlay 6%no caption 70%
6.3
screenshots per listing on average · 26% use 8 or more
4.26
average App Store rating of the analysed apps
5.8
words per screenshot caption (from 98 OCR'd captions) · 32% ALL CAPS · 13% say "you"
Background colours
blue 23%black 18%white 12%orange 12%teal 6%

Based on 1,866 analysed listings in Games. Updated continuously as new apps are analysed. How we measure →

Analysed Games listings

Roblox
dark · caption top · 6 shots
和平精英
light · caption none · 9 shots
王者荣耀
light · caption none · 5 shots
金铲铲之战
mixed · caption none · 6 shots
地铁跑酷 - 寻灵山海古都归来
light · caption none · 5 shots
8 Ball Pool™
mixed · caption top · 4 shots
迷你世界
dark · caption none · 5 shots
Candy Crush Saga
mixed · caption overlay · 9 shots
火影忍者
mixed · caption none · 5 shots
英雄联盟手游
light · caption none · 5 shots
Subway Surfers
mixed · caption none · 5 shots
MONOPOLY GO!
mixed · caption none · 8 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'. 13% 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 6.3 screenshots — Apple allows 10, and only 26% 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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