Game Refinery

JANUARY 5, 2023

They say imitation is a form of flattery, and there’s no shortage of mobile games that share a striking similarity with other popular titles in the PC, console and mobile markets. Players race, jump and dash through three rounds of obstacle courses (maps). In total, Stumble Guys raked in over 219 million downloads.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 14, 2020

Alrighty then, lets kick off the predictions with the Puzzle genre! Puzzle Games Continued to Grow. Western casual games category broken down into genres and sub-genres. Puzzle genre is the second largest, after strategy games, on mobile in terms of in-app purchases.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 13, 2021

While Hypercasual games account for less than 1% of the total IAP revenue of all Casual games, it drove well over half of all downloads for the category during 2019. In fact, Hypercasual games alone made up for ~45% of 2019’s total download volume across all mobile games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2024

Another example is the 'Puzzles' collection mechanics, where the player farms puzzle pieces in hard match-3 levels to assemble pictures. Players regularly complained that they lacked new pictures, since there were only ten of them in the game, and we tried to add pictures with each update, but it was never enough.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

This article in our prediction series will cover the Sports & Racing category. It is made up of four sub-genres - Realistic Sports ( such as MADDEN, FIFA, 8 Ball Poll ), Arcade Sports ( such as Golf Clash, Fishing Clash ), Realistic Racing ( such as CSR ), Arcade Racing ( such as Mario Kart ).

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

This analysis will give you a full overview of the Strategy games genre, which is the second-largest genre in the Western markets after puzzle. The two graphs below show that competition for supremacy of Mid-Core in the Western audience is a tight race between Supercell and FunPlus. Launch Valorant on mobile! Take risks.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

GoPractice is a tool I would have loved to have at the beginning of my product management career and it’s a tool that I love having now, a decade into making and operating free-to-play games. GoPractice is also highly recommended by some of the top mobile games companies, which is how I originally got connected with Oleg.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

These efforts were hampered by what it identified as increased market competition, particularly in the puzzle genre. Rovio has one of the most famous mobile gaming IPs on the planet, Angry Birds. Angry Birds is the OG mobile game franchise that proved how big the market could be.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 4, 2020

Save for a few unicorns ( Fortnite , AFK Arena ), the genres and game mechanics feel to me largely unevolved. The leaderboard of top game publishers has stayed largely the same for few years now. That’s why it was a breath of fresh air to pick up Battle Legion and feel like I was playing something new.

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