2022 Content Fighting Mobile Gaming 
Game Analytics
DECEMBER 28, 2022
Going the extra mile with your game and adding in just a few more features or touches does make a difference. Casual strategy games have definitely made their mark in 2022. You’d think that army games and a relaxing experience wouldn’t mix. So ads won’t ever spoil what is arguably a perfect mobile game.
Deconstructor of Fun
JANUARY 17, 2023
State of the Mobile Games Market The Western mobile games market , which we broadly analyze by removing the Chinese, Taiwanese, Japanese and Korean markets from the numbers, saw overall installs climb by 14% to 47.5B A game that really fell during 2022 losing nearly half of its revenues in the process.
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Game Refinery
MAY 4, 2023
We’ve been writing about the growth of ‘hybrid’ mobile games – when a title merges two or more genres to create an entirely new gameplay experience – since 2020, but hybrid games have evolved a lot since then, especially when it comes to the game genres that are being merged together.
Game Refinery
NOVEMBER 23, 2022
If you’re looking for ways to improve player retention for your mobile game, hosting a collaboration event with a well-known franchise as part of your LiveOps might be the answer you’re looking for. The best in-game collaboration events are often mutually beneficial. Simulation RPG Vikingard collaborates with TV show, Vikings.
Game Refinery
AUGUST 17, 2022
“Roguelike” was definitely a buzzword among game developers last year in China, and the shockwaves made by the boom can still be felt today – for example, still in May 2022, we spotted three new games that claimed to be “roguelike” entering the Chinese iOS top-grossing top 200 list. source: Wikipedia).
Game Refinery
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Only 15% of casual puzzle games in the US top grossing 200 have implemented it, despite it proving reasonably effective at boosting performance in several level-based puzzle games. With that in mind, are mobile game studios missing out on an important opportunity here to boost engagement?
Deconstructor of Fun
APRIL 4, 2023
We dive into decline of hypercasual games and hybridcasual, an attempt by mobile game developers to adapt to the new normal in the industry. If you look at the top 30 new downloaded games in 2022, what you’ll find out is that none of them was a hypercasual game. Missed a previous newsletter? year-over-year).
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