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The top 22 mobile games of 2022

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Casual strategy games have definitely made their mark in 2022. Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales by Next Games. Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales wasn’t initially created for the Netflix Platform. So, technically Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales wasn’t released in 2022. Which is a difficult balance to strike.

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2021 Predictions #1 Puzzle Games Becomes the Top Grossing Genre on Mobile

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Laura Taranto has 12 years experience in casual games and is a product advisor and puzzle game aficionado. Thankfully, your faithful crew at DoF are here to try and help you make sense of it, well, at least the very specific part of it related to puzzle games. Mat Baker has been making mobile games for 15 years. It made $5.1

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The Rise of Hybridization in Mobile Games: How Developers are Genre Mashing Their Way to Success

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In the past, hybridization was mainly seen in 4X strategy games that merged with puzzle and idle RPG mechanics , but in recent months this phenomenon has spread to titles of all shapes and sizes across the market – not just the hybrid-casual genre. In many respects, this change isn’t particularly surprising.

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14 low-budget, highly successful story games

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Reigns does a good job balancing this information while leaving enough mystery for unexpected twists. Published in 2022. Horror in the Darkness is a text-based horror puzzle-esque game. Choice is limited – this is much more of a mystery and puzzle-type game. Is this a safe choice? What’s the risk like? Conflict: 10/10.

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Predicting the Future of Supercell’s Brand New Studio

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This is a well-balanced team in terms of disciplines, covering software, design, and art. This roguelike bullet-hell game has been one of the most loved PC games of the year and sits at position one on steam’s “best of 2022” list ( 1 ). And past experience in entrepreneurship. did (one article claiming that Survivor.io

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The Case of Playrix and why Product-Market fit is a Moving Target

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The misleading ad push was succeeded by the famous "Pull the pin" puzzle-style ads that put Evony and Hero Wars on the map in the past few years. The audience that was looking for a slightly different type of puzzle gameplay, the gameplay that was featured in the ads they were clicking on. Since its launch in February 2021.

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Clash Quest, the Unofficial Postmortem

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Clash Quest is Supercell’s most recent attempt at disrupting the puzzle category through titles like Smash Land , Spooky Pop, and Hay Day Pop , each of them trying to achieve success from different angles. Clash Quest 101 In terms of gameplay, Clash Quest can be categorized as a blast-based midcore Puzzle game with some RPG components.

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