Fastest growing Facebook game of the week: Social City

Social City is the new fastest growing Facebook game this week, boosting into first place having only gone public on March 3.

Playdom's latest game comes from the same stable that produced Sorority Life, Tiki Farm, and Wild Ones. Social City looks like it's joining (and forming) a new Facebook game craze, the city-building genre.

My City Life is probably the bestl-known Facebook game of that type, essentially a Facebook take on the classic SimCity computer games.

However, with four million users, My City Life will be looking over its shoulder because its own growth rate appears to have levelled off and there's a new kid in town.

If Social City adds another three million adoring Facebook citizens to its number over the next seven days, just as it did over the previous seven, it will be well placed to cement itself in the overall top 20 most used games on the platform.

From there, it will be quite the slog to make it into the top 10 (over 15 million regular users are currently needed to ascend to such a height), but as hottest game in a new hot genre, it's not impossible.

1. Social City (3,233,243 = +2,912,949 / 90.1%)
2. Bubble Island (1,938,412 = +836,444 / 43.2%)
3. Tiki Resort (2,041,736 = +823,577 / 40.3%)
4. Jeux Gratuits (844,778 = +721,188 / 85.4%)
5. MindJolt Games (20,493,630 = +710,844 / 3.5%)
6. FarmVille (83,755,953 = +628,202 / 0.8%)
7. Music Pets (498,952 = +498,952 / 100.0%)
8. Zoo Paradise (477,274 = +427,567 / 89.6%)
9. Texas HoldEm Poker (27,615,331 = +403,761 / 1.5%)
10. Restaurant City (15,206,969 = +351,052 / 2.3%)

Numbers in brackets relate to total monthly users, the increase in monthly users, and the weekly percentage growth.
Source: appdata.com