GameMetaDroid: A Cross-Country Dataset of Android Game Applications Across 10 National Markets

GameMetaDroid is a cross-country dataset of Android game applications collected from the Google Play Store across ten national markets. The dataset comprises 13,760 Android game apps, providing structured information on application attributes, monetization mechanisms, market performance indicators, and localized content characteristics. Each application is identified by a unique Google Play app identifier and is associated with market-specific observations, including user ratings, install counts, review volumes, prices, content classification flags, and textual descriptions. The dataset covers the following national markets: the United States, India, Germany, Finland, Mexico, Brazil, Pakistan, Indonesia, Russia, and the Philippines. The dataset was constructed through a multi-source data collection and curation process based on publicly available Google Play metadata, supplemented and cross-validated using additional public sources. All data were cleaned, standardized, and harmonized into a unified schema. The dataset reflects the state of publicly available Google Play information as of October 2025. GameMetaDroid is intended to support research and education in areas such as mobile application markets, cross-country analysis, app monetization, data mining, and machine learning. No personal or user-level data are included.