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November 2022 Core Report

November 2022 Core Report

Casual and Ranked Modes Download the November Core Report Clash Royale split its main competition into two modes: a progression of PvP arenas called Trophy Road and a ranked competition called Path of Legends. While Trophy Road saves players'...

November 2022 Casino Report

November 2022 Casino Report

Story Mode with Exchange Shop Download the November Casino Report Lightning Link Casino’s Once Upon a Time is a rare example of a casino app using a story to connect a long series of events. Players access the events through pages of a storybook...

November 2022 Racing & Sports Report

November 2022 Racing & Sports Report

Gacha Removal Download the November Sports & Racing Report Mario Kart Tour’s Spotlight Shop replaces the app’s gacha mechanic with a more traditional store that changes its offers each day. This is a significant shift in the app’s monetization...

November 2022 Slots Design Report

November 2022 Slots Design Report

Character-Based Social Bonus Download the November Slots Design Report Cash Frenzy’s Bonny Buccaneer includes a social bonus in which players pick characters that compete to earn multipliers and cannonballs. Each character then shoots their...

November 2022 Casual Report

November 2022 Casual Report

Community-Designed Content Download the November Casual Report My Singing Monsters’ Anniversary Month offers an unusually large amount of new content generated by the player community, including monsters, skins, decorations, and profile titles. The...

October 2022 Core Report

October 2022 Core Report

Rare Pet Event Download the October Core Report Game of Sultans’ Dragon Hatchery builds on the app’s robust pet feature by offering players a chance to earn a firedragon—the first pet in the app’s new “mythic” tier. The app gives players a variety...

October 2022 Casino Report

October 2022 Casino Report

Prize Wheel Progression Be sure to check out the new design of our Impact Portal (previously called the Design Portal). The Impact Portal offers three tools: The Database contains over 35K galleries of live ops releases; the Wiki includes all of...

October 2022 Racing & Sports Report

October 2022 Racing & Sports Report

Story-Based Race Modes We’d like to offer you a free preview of our new Sports & Racing Report, which covers over 15 top-grossing apps in the sports and racing market. Two previous soft-launch editions of this report are also free to all of our...

October 2022 Slots Design Report

October 2022 Slots Design Report

Time-Based Machine Modes Download the October Slots Design Report Slotomania’s Time of the Gargoyle is the first machine we've seen that changes based on the actual time of day. Every 12 hours, the machine alternates between day and night modes....

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