CastleVille and The Sims Social Head to Head on This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Facebook Games by DAU

CastleVille officially passes The Sims Social in daily active users this week, putting it on top of our list of fastest-growing Facebook games by DAU.

Growth appears to be slowing down for Zynga’s newest role-playing/life simulation, however, with less than a 10% growth rate in DAU for the last five days. CastleVille’s monthly active users — a means of gauging the game’s overall reach — still has some momentum with just over 28% growth in the same time period. We’ll see how the holidays impact the early trajectory of the game; but there may also be some influence from Zynga’s IPO roadshow, which kicks off next week.

All data in this post comes from our traffic tracking service, AppData. Stay tuned for our look at the top emerging apps on Friday.

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