Honor of Kings (王者荣耀) 3.74.1.6 (Android 4.1+)

Honor of Kings (simplified Chinese: 王者荣耀; traditional Chinese: 王者榮耀; pinyin: Wángzhě Róngyào; lit. 'King's glory', unofficially translated as King of Glory, or alternatively transliterated as Wangzhe Rongyao), is a multiplayer online battle arena developed by TiMi Studio Group and published by Tencent Games for the iOS and Android mobile platforms for Mainland China.

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Released in 2015, it has become one of the most relevant MOBA games in mainland China. An international adaptation, titled Arena of Valor, was released in October 2016; it utilizes the same game engine and UI design but with greatly altered heroes to accommodate the Western market. By 2017, Honor of Kings had over 80 million daily active players and 200 million monthly active players making it most popular game in the world and with grossing more than $13.4 billion, it is the highest-grossing mobile game of all time as well as the most downloaded app globally and one of the highest-grossing games. As of November 2020, the game has over 100 million daily active players.

Honor of Kings (HoK) is a quick-match (15-20 mins) mobile multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game, one of the first of its kind inspired by League of Legends, a video games for PC of the same genre by Riot Games, a subsidiary classified under Tencent Games.

Either a Tencent QQ account or a WeChat account is required to play the game. If two players use the same account type on different mobile platforms (for example both have WeChat accounts, but one player uses an iOS device and the other uses an Android device), cross-platform multiplayer is possible and with the latest update on September 24, 2020, a player can add friends and invite people from different platforms to guilds. Different account types—QQ and/or WeChat—cannot access the other's matchmaking queue, and their online status, even when using the same platform.

In February 2021, Honor of Kings was the second highest-earning mobile game worldwide for February 2021 with $218.5 million in gross revenue, which represented 57.2 percent year-over-year growth from February 2020. About 95.6 percent of Honor of Kings' revenue was from China, followed by 1.6 percent from Thailand.