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Game Refinery
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Following the high-level trend of hybridization across mobile , more and more casual games have started introducing competitive elements into their live event strategies. This has become especially prevalent in the puzzle subgenre, with around 75% of casual puzzle games in the US top-grossing 200 implementing these features.
Deconstructor of Fun
JANUARY 10, 2021
Mat Baker has been making mobile games for 15 years. Laura Taranto has 12 years experience in casual games and is a product advisor and puzzle game aficionado. 2020 was a very good year for mobile games. Puzzle Games in 2020 Puzzle, out of all of the genres and mobile, is the largest one when looking at IAPs only.
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Deconstructor of Fun
OCTOBER 23, 2023
Merge Dragons never strayed from merge mechanics and exclusively contained puzzles that players could solve by merging various items. The core gameplay was true and tested Match-3 puzzle while the meta game was merge inspired. You decided how much time you'd spend swapping tiles or tending to your flowerbeds.
Deconstructor of Fun
SEPTEMBER 28, 2020
The mobile hit Empires and Puzzles (E&P) by Small Giant Games (acquired by Zynga) has made over $600M in net-revenues while racking up around 60 million installs. While there have been numerous clones and follow up titles trying to get a piece of the ever growing puzzle RPG pie, none of them has had any meaningful success.
Deconstructor of Fun
JANUARY 14, 2020
Alrighty then, lets kick off the predictions with the Puzzle genre! Puzzle Games Continued to Grow. Puzzle genre is the second largest, after strategy games, on mobile in terms of in-app purchases. Last year Puzzle games generated a whopping $4.5Bn in IAP revenues while growing 18% year-on-year.
Deconstructor of Fun
OCTOBER 27, 2020
Playrix is one of the powerhouses in the puzzle genre thanks to Gardenscapes and Homescapes’ current success. Township has been on mobile platforms since 2013 and generated around a Billion Dollars in life-time revenues. This analysis is written by two unassuming Township players, Buğrahan Göker and Michail Katkoff.
Deconstructor of Fun
JUNE 20, 2019
Matchington Mansion is a top 5 puzzle game with raking in over $15M a month in net revenues. content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. That’s a lot of work for so few…. And there are 15 million reasons to look deeper into how they did it.
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