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Hypercasual games market is shrinking, still 3.7 billion downloads last 3 months

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A larger drop can be identified if we compare Q2 2023 to Q2 2022. Time-sensitive touch Next in our selection is Piano Star: Tap Music Tiles with 25.7M Released back in 2022, the game takes its inspiration from the widely popular Piano Tiles series by Umoni Games. Tiles Hop: EDM Rush!,

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Tile Busters: Leaving The Reddest Ocean To Find A Blue Spot

Deconstructor of Fun

We talked about the emerging Tile Match subgenre in a previous article and also deconstructed its first success story with Zen Match in another. Thus, Tile Busters was born. Before delving into the game and its details, it is worth noting how the metagame of Tile Busters is constructed. And pivot that they did.

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Even older hypercasual games break into the Top 10 in Q1 2023

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Hypercasual Q1 regional split Comparing the total downloads in Q1 2023 with those in Q4 2022, we see a decrease of 5%. However, an even more significant downtrend can be noticed when comparing Q1 2022 to Q1 2023. Magic Tiles 3 Another new entry in the top 10 is Magic Tiles 3 with 24M installs. billion installs in Q1 2023.

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The Zen Match Case: How a First Mover Fell Behind

Deconstructor of Fun

Christmas 2022 was made very special for some as Moon Active announced the acquisition of the casual puzzle game Zen Match for as much as $150M. Designing a Tile Match level When designing puzzle levels, one of the initial goals should be to ensure that players can easily recognize patterns.

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My Elephant in the Room, Part 1

Designer Notes

I gave an Old World postmortem at GDC 2022, which is available on YouTube: However, I fully scripted the talk ahead of time, so I decided it would be worth taking the time to post the slides online, in three parts to have mercy on your browser. So, why should I go back to make a historical, tile-based 4X game? A Civ-like, so to speak.

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Based 2023’s data, which casual game genres are likely to perform well in 2024?

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User spending went down by around 3.5%, following the decline trend of 2022. From the entire list, 5 casual genres were selected for further in-depth study: Merge-2 with Meta : the genre was the most promising one in 2022, and in 2023 it showed strong revenue growth. Top image: Merge Mansion.

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My Elephant in the Room, Part 2

Designer Notes

I gave an Old World postmortem at GDC 2022, which is available on YouTube: However, I fully scripted the talk ahead of time, so I decided it would be worth taking the time to post the slides online, in three parts to have mercy on your browser. Now, let’s talk about the tech tree, which has always had a problem with golden paths.

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