Castlevania fell from #4 to #93 as Rotate Rings held #3
· GameQuant Research
This article follows five games that entered the US Top Free Games chart in the last ten days of September 2026 and reached its top 25. None of them had appeared in the chart since at least early July. By 30 September they stood in very different places: Castlevania: 40th Anniversary reached #4 on 26 September, held it for a second day and stood at #93 on 30 September, while Rotate Rings climbed from #162 to #3 in three days and was still #3 on 30 September.
Top Free · Games · United States
best rank recorded each day · 1 = top of the chart
- Castlevania#93
- Rotate Rings#3
- Aniimo#58
Show the numbers
| Date | Castlevania | Rotate Rings | Aniimo |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 Sep 2026 | – | – | 1 |
| 23 Sep 2026 | – | – | 3 |
| 24 Sep 2026 | – | 162 | 3 |
| 25 Sep 2026 | 7 | 27 | 6 |
| 26 Sep 2026 | 4 | 12 | 17 |
| 27 Sep 2026 | 4 | 3 | 33 |
| 28 Sep 2026 | 13 | 3 | 42 |
| 29 Sep 2026 | 29 | 3 | 51 |
| 30 Sep 2026 | 93 | 3 | 58 |
Five entries, five positions
| Game | Entered | Days | Rank, 30 Sep |
|---|---|---|---|
| NoomiClone | 21 Sep | 10 | 15 |
| Aniimo | 22 Sep | 9 | 58 |
| Rotate Rings | 24 Sep | 7 | 3 |
| Castlevania: 40th Anniversary | 25 Sep | 6 | 93 |
| Bloons Blitz | 30 Sep | 1 | 4 |
“Entered” is the first day in the chart and “Days” counts the days in it up to 30 September. All five stayed in the chart on every day after they entered. What differs is how long they stayed near the top.
Castlevania and Aniimo: about five days in the top 25
Castlevania: 40th Anniversary first appeared on 25 September at #7 and was inside the top 25 on four of its first five days, standing at #4 on 26 and 27 September. On 30 September, its sixth day, it was #93.
Aniimo was #1 on 22 September, its first day in the chart, and was inside the top 25 on each of its first five days. It left the top 25 on 27 September, when it stood at #33, and was #58 on 30 September.
Rotate Rings and Bloons Blitz arrived weeks after release
Rotate Rings entered the chart on 24 September at #162. Its App Store listing gives 5 August as the release date, so seven weeks passed before the game appeared in the chart at all. It was #27 a day later and #3 by 27 September, and it held #3 on every day through 30 September.
Bloons Blitz took a shorter version of the same route. Its listing gives 9 September as the release date. It appeared in the chart for the first time on 30 September, three weeks later, and its first position was #4.
The chart does not say what carried a game there weeks after its release. It does show the result: on 30 September these two stood at #3 and #4, while Aniimo and Castlevania stood at #58 and #93.
A game from 2020 joins them
NoomiClone has an App Store release date in December 2020. It has been in the chart every day since 21 September, was inside the top 25 on four of the last seven days and stood at #15 on 30 September.
The top of the chart did not move
The entries came and went underneath a stable top. Meowdoku! was #1 on 30 September, as it was a week earlier, and has been in the top 10 on every one of the last 30 days. Block Out! - Color Sort Puzzle was #2 on both dates.
Among these games, an early rank said little about where a game stood a few days later. Of the four entries with at least six days in the chart, two stood at #15 or higher on 30 September and two stood below #50.
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