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Dark War Survival makes $300K a Day

Matej Lancaric
๐——๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ธ ๐—ช๐—ฎ๐—ฟ ๐—ฆ๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ธ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐Ÿค‘ $๐Ÿฏ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฌ๐—ธ/๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜† with 120K downloads a day and will be attacking top ranks in 4X genre in 2025.
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๐—ง๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ณ๐˜‚๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—จ๐—” & ๐—ด๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—ฒ ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ thanks to the use of ๐—”๐—œ. You won’t like it๐Ÿ‘‡

It was made by Rivergame, the same team that did Last War, Top War, and Top Heroes. Yes, it’s not visible immediately, thanks to a different publisher name, but as you play, you get it right away.

This time, the key iteration is that the Last War team took their game, added a Whiteout Survival (Century Games) onboarding funnel, and slapped a zombie/survival theme on top of it. ๐—š๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ถ๐˜‚๐˜€!

But the biggest genius move is in UA and creatives. Currently, 90% of creatives are made by AI. Think cost efficiency and speed of production (check this AI creative guide as well: https://lnkd.in/d_Um7-QP). This wasn’t the case before. They completely changed the whole creative strategy in the last six monthsโ€”๐— ๐˜‚๐—น๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ถ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐˜€!

The Last War creative team must be pretty big given the scale, pumping out gazillions of new creatives per week. Imagine the scale of Last War and AI’s approach to creatives. You can do the same scale with way fewer people. I even ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—ฏ๐˜† ๐—บ๐˜†๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ณ ๐—ฑ๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด the recording.

Which creative was made by me, and which one was made by Rivergame?

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