Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Unless otherwise specified, all the data has been provided by the wonderful services of App Annie. This article in our prediction series will cover the Sports & Racing category. Sports genre grew with nearly every sub-genre up, except Realistic Racing (CSR2 declined 11% and no new games scaled up).

Racing 52

Racing Games UX Mobile 52

Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2024

Another example is the 'Puzzles' collection mechanics, where the player farms puzzle pieces in hard match-3 levels to assemble pictures. So we decided to loop the puzzles at the same time as adding new ones. The more lightning they collect, the stronger the charge, increasing their chances in the competition.

Mechanics 98

Mechanics Content Puzzle Games 98

Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 8, 2024

This decision remains puzzling, as there was no pressure to launch Squad Busters. That said, thirty days of data is hardly a death sentence for Squad Busters. In a game built on streaks, the inability to at least test the match-3 playbook (Lava Quest, Episode Race. etc) is puzzling. Leaky bucket or product shortfall?

Mobile 110

Mobile Mobile Platformer Feature 110

Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2023

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. while the net revenues declined by 11% to $38.2B.

Mobile Gaming 52

Mobile Gaming Mobile Mobile Sandbox 52

Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 13, 2021

Unless otherwise specified, all the data has been provided by the powerful Sensor Tower and analyzed by the author(s). Data from China, Korea and Japan are excluded as this analysis focuses on Western markets only. Mediation platforms have access to a large scale of marketability data across many publishers.

Mechanics 52

Mechanics Puzzle Advertising Studios 52

Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

Unless otherwise specified, all the data has been provided by the powerful Sensor Tower and analyzed by the author(s). Data from China, Korea, and Japan are excluded as this analysis focuses on Western markets only. This makes the genre second largest on mobile in (outside key Asian markets) after Puzzle games.

Mobile 52

Mobile Mobile Cross platform Puzzle 52

Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2022

An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. Data from China, Korea, and Japan are excluded as this analysis focuses on Western markets only. This is because we don’t want to reduce the actionability of the data with games that succeed massively in what can be described as closed domestic markets.

Puzzle 52

Puzzle Mobile Gaming Mobile Mobile 52

Designer Notes

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Race for the Galaxy , for example, is often accused of being multiplayer solitaire – although the other humans add noise to the system, and mastery comes from predicting that noise. Pax Pamir is perhaps that alternate version of Race – Pamir is not a bad engine-building game, it’s a good some-other-sort-of game.

AI 52

AI Racing Engine Engineering 52

Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 10, 2019

data from the best of the best - Sensor Tower. A push that is very likely to continue… data from the one and only - GameRefinery. Similar to Heroes Charge, Puzzles and Dragons, Empires and Puzzles, Idle Heroes, Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes, Legendary, and Marvel Strike Force. During the past year Lilith has been on a roll!

Mechanics 52

Mechanics Feature Mobile Mobile 52