Jakub Remiar

Rivergame's Last Z Survival Shooter scaled to $300K a day in revenue. This time they used the Tap4Fun's Top Girl spin on the onboarding. How can they scale so many games so fast? 😵 The game is done again in their now signature template, of hypercasual runner/shooter during onboarding and then transitions to 4X. Except this time, we have AI-generated girls on top. The 4X engine ⚔️ that they are perfecting since releasing Top War in 2019 is just getting better and better with every next game they release. The game is now landscape instead of portrait, contrary to the rest of their portfolio, but it works even better because of the AI girls functionality they are focusing on. And let me tell you that they supercharged ⚡ what Top Girl did and turned it into their own AI-powered version […]

Supercell global launched Moco last week. Their Action RPG, that got out of its long periodic beta (since Oct. 2023). With around a week of data, there is $350K revenue and 2,5M downloads, which does not seem so super 😟. Let's look deeper into the game 🕵. This is as streamlined ARPG as it gets. You don't collect weapons from the ground and compare them in your inventory, you don't craft specific items, there are no skill trees, there are no gear sockets or enchants, there is not even the armor 🛡️ part of the inventory. You just choose 3 active and passive skills + weapon, which determines your playstyle, and that's it. Later, you get 3 more stat-based elite rings. I think this streamlining process went a little bit too far, or as a veteran ARPG player, I am […]

Soft-launch Sonar #8 📡 is back with 12 brand new soft-launched games with no particular filter. There are games from a lot of big players in the market such as Metacore, Supercent, Supercell, Homa, Century Games, Spyke Games, tap4fun, MY.GAMES. Come check out what we caught this time 😎. Metacore is continuing the innovation in the merge genre, with level based merge boards, now with the 2nd game. New shots in the Match3 battlefield with MY.GAMES "Wizard" based game and Century Games's farming game. They are really pushing hard into casual, this is the 8th or 9th game as we lost count now 😅. On the other and Spyke Games is again surfing the trend, trying to do an IAP driven Block Blast game. Homa is iterating on Tripledot Studios's Nut Sort. Supercell announced a new "Boat game" 🚢, seems […]

Match Villains by Good Job Games already scaled to $60K per day 🤑. Last week they raised $23M from Menlo Ventures & Akin (Arcadia Gaming Partners) so there is definitely potential and money for UA 😎 How is the game looking? Even though the game was soft launched in last year's April and started scaling at the start of this year, this is a veteran team founded in 2017. Despite starting as Hyper casual developer, it already scaled and sold Zen Match to Moon Active (for something between $100-150 Mil. 💰). Zen Match has done $130 Mil. in IAP lifetime revenue. This is where the basis for IAP puzzler expertise was gained from and in Match Villains this 100+ team just perfected it.The game is going directly after match3 heavyweights such as Dream Games's Royal Match 👑. The production quality […]

The mobile games "I am Cat" and "I am Security" are each doing 600K downloads a day 🙀 topping the download charts. The plot twist is that both are originally VR games 🕶️! Lets look deeper into this crazy story 🕵 You can find both games on Steam for premium price developed by New Folder Games. Actually I am Security was released on Meta's Quest store in June, 2024. Fast forward to today, both games are now published by Estoty Vilnius Feb 15th and Feb 23rd on mobile stores, and adapted for mobile gameplay, which is the key to this success. You have the full joystick control scheme with abilities and other adjustments, so it is pretty seamless. There are even ability buttons for watching ads 😅 Both games are "life simulators". I am Security is iteration on Paper's please, […]