Carlos Pereira

NEW GAMES ON THE RISE Returning this week with our helpful list of “Games on the rise”.Here I bring you titles debuting at the top of the charts. 👇 These are this week's highlights. 👇➡️ 4x strategy games are still hot! 🔥 The giant gaming company Century Games, whose portfolio includes the big 4X strategy hit “Whiteout Survival”, launched another 4x strategy in February, “Kingshot”. Set in the medieval period, “Kingshot” has a similar gameplay to “WS”, but with a few differences, such as highly polished character animations and a hero roster. The game has been performing well, with growth in both the number of downloads and IAP revenue. On March 8, it appeared in the 🔝 500 for mobile game revenue for the first time. 🏅On March 9, it appeared in the 🔝 1,000 downloads in mobile games for […]

HYBRID CASUAL STUDIES HYPER X HYBRID GAME ECONOMICS Hi, Mobile Gaming Fanatics! 😜🧩In today's Hybrid Casual Studies, I bring you a short comparative analysis of the game economy of a hyper and a hybrid.To shed some light on the comparison, I'll show you screenshots of 3️⃣ great Supersonic from Unity titles.Developed by Fun Velikan, “Emoji Puzzle” 🙂 is a very simple and addictive Hyper Casual connection puzzle; a big hit with more than 225MM downloads.Developed by Gemo Interactive and Lecten, “Park Match!” 🚗 is a typical Hybrid Park Jam Puzzle, with a game economy finely tuned to the LiveOps system.Developed by EO Games, “Screw Master 3D” 🔩 is a screw puzzle with excellent side loops as a metagame.For this analysis, I used the article “How to strike a balance between core and meta economies”, based on Guy Yogev’s insights, and […]

TRACKING RELEASES & TRANSFERS# 5 WEEK, JANUARY, 2025 Hi Mobile Gaming Friends! 😍Today I bring you another edition of our…💫 Tracking Releases & Transfers 💫This one brings releases and transfers to big publisher accounts from the 27th of January to the 2nd of February.I've found 17 titles. 💪🔎I highlight 3️⃣ of them.✅ “Gear Fight!” by Voodoo & Eternal StudioThe big French publisher 🇫🇷 has launched another innovative title.“Gear Fight!” is a split-screen Roguelike (similar to another Voodoo hit, 'Cup Heroes' $10MM IAP revenue) with Idle mechanics using gear pieces (“Gear Clicker” 10MM downl.). ⚙️With a prehistoric theme, the game has a tasty dash of humor.Developed by Eternal Studio, "Gear Fight!" was transferred to Voodoo's account on January 31st. 🗓️✅ “Gang Up” by RollicThe big Turkish publisher 🇹🇷 keeps pushing ahead with the development of Hybridcasual Runners.“Gang Up” is a Shooter […]

NEW GAMES ON THE RISE# 5, WEEK, JANUARY, 2025 Hello, mobile gaming lovers! 💓📲I am returning this week with our useful list of “Games on the rise”.Here I bring you titles debuting at the top of the charts. 📈👇 These are this week's highlights. 👇➡️ The big publisher Rollic keeps leading the Hybridcasual race. 🏃🏃‍♀️💨 Developed by Gybe Games, the puzzle “Color Block Jam” has been performing very well. Another highlight from the Turkish giant 🇹🇷 is “Timeline Up”. Developed by Mojo Games, “Timeline Up” is one of the Runners released by Hypercasual publishers with the highest IAP revenue in History. 😲 On February 2, it appeared in the 🔝 200 for mobile game revenue for the first time. 🏅 A formidable feat! 👏 As I've said in other posts, the market will explode when publishers consolidate good practices for […]

HYBRIDCASUAL’S TIMELINE 2021/2022First hit Hybridcasual games released by leading Hypercasual publishers, such as “Squad Alpha” & “My Little Universe” (Estoty Riga LLC/SayGames) and “Mob Control” (Voodoo).2023“Hypercasual is dead” (PocketGamer.biz) - Hybrid blows up in the gaming media press. Big Hypercasual publishers run specific launch programs for Hybrids. Hypercasual structured studios are moving towards the Hybrid. Puzzle is hot. Rising new hit titles.2024Good development practices, with consolidated processes (from weeks to months), long-term retention as a KPI, and game design features, such as depth layers, collectibles (e.g. city builder), etc. Hybrid moves into other game genres (e.g. Shooters, Runners, and Simulators). New Hybrid studios.2025LiveOps leaps in quality.Big Hits (+$10MM IAP / month).Take a look at the images below and compare the LiveOps schedule for “Royal Match” and “Block Jam 3D”. I don't believe that the Voodoo puzzle aims to achieve the […]

GAMES ON THE RISE # 5, WEEK, OCTOBER, 2024 The last week of October brought some interesting games on the rise! 📈 ✨Some of them have different mechanics and perform well.I've highlighted 4️⃣ titles.➡️ “Clue Master - Logic Puzzles” by Lion Studios.It's an outstanding logic puzzle game with a detective theme. 🕵️‍♀️Its UX is straightforward, similar to life simulators such as “BitLife” by Candywriter, LLC.Btw, the “Clue Master” developer is Regulus Studio, an Indonesian company led by Armandarius Darmadji, which has a successful simulator in its portfolio, “Family Tree! - Logic Puzzles” (US$1.2MM IAP revenue), also published by Lion.I loved “Clue Master”! 💞I played it for over an hour and a half non-stop! 🤪And it seems that I'm not the only one who thinks so…According to AppMagic, “Clue” has been growing in revenue and downloads recently, with a high market […]