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Hypercasual games market keeps shrinking, still 3.38 billion downloads last 3 months

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Also, the trend on the YoY market decrease persists with a 6% drop compared to Q2 2023. a remarkable +100% QoQ; read a full case study on Supercent’s games); Car Race 3D: Car Racing (+22% QoQ); Race Master 3D – Car Racing (+4% QoQ); Going Balls (+0.1% Now, let’s turn to the newbies at the top.

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Even older hypercasual games break into the Top 10 in Q1 2023

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When looking at the Top 10 hypercasual games in the first quarter of 2023, AppMagic noticed some interesting trends. Hypercasual Q1 regional split Comparing the total downloads in Q1 2023 with those in Q4 2022, we see a decrease of 5%. billion installs in Q1 2023. Last year, the number of downloads was 4.2

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[Event Spotlight] How Mobile Game Developers Are Driving Player Engagement With Race Events

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This trend is now spinning out into race events – where players compete to see who can reach a designated objective first – resulting in a variety of new race event types emerging. These race events are mostly encountered in casual titles, although they work well for any games that function on level-based progression mechanics.

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Hypercasual games market continues to decline, but still nearly 3 billion installs this quarter

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downloads in Q3 2023. 40% QoQ) and Wood Screw Puzzle (–23% QoQ). The title has also been on the market for some time now—since May 2023, and it has been continuously growing its monthly download figures from November 2023. Lastly, the snake design closely resembles Snake Run Race by Freeplay, a game with 71M installs.

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[Event Spotlight] How Mobile Game Developers Can Boost Engagement In The Casual Puzzle Genre With Competitive 1v1 Events

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This has become especially prevalent in the puzzle subgenre, with around 75% of casual puzzle games in the US top-grossing 200 implementing these features. Only 15% of casual puzzle games in the US top grossing 200 have implemented it, despite it proving reasonably effective at boosting performance in several level-based puzzle games.

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List of most popular video game genres in 2023

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Players typically interact with the environment and other characters in order to solve puzzles containing clues to advance in the gameplay. This video game genre includes sub-genres like racing, combat, team and sports-based fighting game. Racing Games In racing games, the players take part in a racing competition.

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The State of the Mobile Games Market in 2023

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In terms of revenue, the genres that took the most damage were: #1 Racing (revenue -28%, downloads +8%) The genre was down early a third down due to a decline across all titles. And unlike Racing, Shooter games also generally saw a decline in downloads as well. TWIG #215 THE 2023 PREDICTIONS ???? TWIG’s 2023 Predictions.