{"id":55646,"date":"2013-11-15T23:44:41","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T21:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=55646"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:01:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:01:41","slug":"candy-crush-saga-downloaded-over-half-a-billion-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/candy-crush-saga-downloaded-over-half-a-billion-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Candy Crush Saga downloaded over half a billion times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a title=\"Candy Crush Saga download on Softonic\" href=\"http:\/\/en.softonic.com\/s\/candy-crush-saga:iphone-android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Candy Crush Saga<\/a><\/em>, the addictive puzzle game, has reached over 500 million downloads on <a title=\"Facebook news on Softonic\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/t\/facebook-tags\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>, <a title=\"Android news on Softonic\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/t\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android<\/a>, and <a title=\"iOS news on Softonic\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/t\/ios\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iOS<\/a> in just one year. To celebrate, developer King will be &#8220;launching a range of new updates and in-game anniversary treats&#8221; in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The game is so pervasive on Facebook that the company says one out of every 23 Facebook users is a fan of the <em>Candy Crush Saga<\/em> game. King reveals more information about the game, including the fact that 150 billion games have been played to date and that the most popular time to play <em>Candy Crush<\/em> is between the hours of 6-9PM.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Candy Crush Saga<\/em> is available on <a title=\"Candy Crush Saga for Android download\" href=\"http:\/\/candy-crush-saga.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android<\/a>, <a title=\"Candy Crush Saga for iOS download\" href=\"http:\/\/candy-crush-saga.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iOS<\/a>, and <a title=\"Candy Crush Saga for Facebook link\" href=\"http:\/\/candy-crush-saga.en.softonic.com\/web-apps\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a title=\"King (PR Newswire)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/candy-crush-saga-celebrates-one-year-anniversary-and-half-a-billion-downloads-232047801.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">King (PR Newswire)<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>RELATED STORIES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/candy-crush-saga-whats-the-secret-behind-the-addiction\">Candy Crush Saga: What&#8217;s the secret behind the addiction?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/candy-crush-saga-publisher-talks-sweet-success\">Candy Crush Saga publisher talks sweet success<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/game-utopia-the-key-to-a-successful-game\">Game utopia: what&#8217;s the key to a successful game?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Candy Crush Saga, the addictive puzzle game, has reached over 500 million downloads on Facebook, Android, and iOS in just one year. To celebrate, developer King will be &#8220;launching a range of new updates and in-game anniversary treats&#8221; in the coming weeks. The game is so pervasive on Facebook that the company says one out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/candy-crush-saga-downloaded-over-half-a-billion-times\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Candy Crush Saga downloaded over half a billion times&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":55652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[],"tags":[2801],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-55646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectioncandy-crush-saga"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331803,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55646\/revisions\/331803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55646"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=55646"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=55646"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=55646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}