How Strategy Overtook RPG as Core’s Top Genre In 2024, revenue among the top five strategy apps grew an average of almost 400% YoY, helping strategy overtake RPG as the top genre in the core market. Last War: Survival, the top strategy app, has...
How To Make Team Mechanics Optional Coin Master’s Better Together event boosted revenue by 18.7% WoW by introducing collaborative mechanics to a proven multi-stage mission format. In this event, players complete missions to earn individual rewards...
Change Up the Pace of Bonuses Cash Frenzy’s Mega Hungry Super Plants randomly activates timed rounds that give players 90 seconds to trigger a pick’em bonus or a Fruit Ninja-inspired mini-game. The two bonuses maintain the fast pace of the timed...
Letting Players Vote Through Engagement Subway Surfers’ Team Takedown offers two special levels that are each associated with a new hero. Each level has a global reward meter that players fill by collecting currency during that level. Completing...
Top Girl's 4X Twist Pays Off A3GAMES’ Top Girl layers a girl group theme over 4X strategy mechanics by having players manage and upgrade a roster of pop stars while “performing concerts” to conquer bases. The app also offers several hypercasual...
The Secrets to a Successful Economy Rebalance For this report, we interviewed Elia Catsman, director of economy at Huuuge Games, about an economy rebalance and battle pass update that increased Huuuge Casino’s revenue by 19.2% and ARPDAU by 26.6%...
The Next Evolution in Core-Inspired Machines In House of Fun’s Rock ‘N’ Troll, players land symbols during base game spins to deplete a boss’ health meter. As players spin, the boss randomly drops hazards that block symbols from landing in certain...
Add Physics-Based Mechanics to Mini-Games In Royal Match’s Ocean Odyssey, players shoot balls to destroy objects in a series of levels. Each hit causes the ball to bounce off objects or walls, adding an element of randomness that makes progression...
How Hero-Sharing Drives Retention Cookie Run: Kingdom’s latest feature allows players to rent out one hero from their collection, enabling all other players to temporarily use that hero. This feature gives players access to powerful heroes, which...
