Jakub Remiar

Vertex Games's Matching Story scaled to $300K a day after nearly 3 years in soft launch. Is it a Match3 game or a Merge 3 game? Read the story behind this exceptional combo here 😎 It was soft-launched in May 2021 and only started scaling at the start of last year. Initially, we thought that this was a Merge game that added the Match3 core later, but this was not the case. It was a combination of Isometric Merge3 + Match3 from the initial build 😱. The Match 3 layer is basically Royal Match now, with all of its trigger events meta and collectible album, etc. But instead of a basic visual renovation progression based on stars, you get chests with merge tokens after winning Match 3 levels. Also, this is Merge 3, not Merge 5, as traditional isometric merge games […]

Supercell's Clash of Clans just had a massive update this week, not only because the WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) collaboration event ClashMania, but also doing some radical changes, so what happened 🕵? All training timers ⏲️ for troops, heroes healing, spells, siege machines were removed from the game. This is a continuation of the removal of unit costs in 2022, which already created a much more strategic experience with out the worry of spending resources. Similarly during the economy revamp during the introduction of the battle pass in 2019, this again accelerated the content progression speed of the game, which now has townhall 🏛️ 17 as max level. It started with max level 8 during its initial release during August 2012. You can see how Supercell is continuously adjusting the game according to the current content length in order to […]

Estoty's I am Cat and I am Security are currently making $300K a day 🤑 in ad revenue together with 500K downloads a day. Is publishing the most successful VR game on mobile the best trick you've heard about? 😱 This is one of the most craziest stories that we covered this year, where literally the most viral VR game got ported on mobile, it spams interstitials like there is no tmrw 😵, has rewarded videos even for basic interaction (like you see in the piano image) still keeps its viral traffic and then ... profit 💰 I am Cat has 62K reviews and 4.9 score on the Meta VR store, which is more than Beat Saber! (52K) The mobile version is already past 15 Mil. downloads in a little bit more than a month. I am security is already […]

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 […]