Jakub Remiar

Soft-launch Sonar #8 📡 is back with 12 brand new soft-launched games with no particular filter. There are games from a lot of big players in the market such as Metacore, Supercent, Supercell, Homa, Century Games, Spyke Games, tap4fun, MY.GAMES. Come check out what we caught this time 😎. Metacore is continuing the innovation in the merge genre, with level based merge boards, now with the 2nd game. New shots in the Match3 battlefield with MY.GAMES "Wizard" based game and Century Games's farming game. They are really pushing hard into casual, this is the 8th or 9th game as we lost count now 😅. On the other and Spyke Games is again surfing the trend, trying to do an IAP driven Block Blast game. Homa is iterating on Tripledot Studios's Nut Sort. Supercell announced a new "Boat game" 🚢, seems […]

Match Villains by Good Job Games already scaled to $60K per day 🤑. Last week they raised $23M from Menlo Ventures & Akin (Arcadia Gaming Partners) so there is definitely potential and money for UA 😎 How is the game looking? Even though the game was soft launched in last year's April and started scaling at the start of this year, this is a veteran team founded in 2017. Despite starting as Hyper casual developer, it already scaled and sold Zen Match to Moon Active (for something between $100-150 Mil. 💰). Zen Match has done $130 Mil. in IAP lifetime revenue. This is where the basis for IAP puzzler expertise was gained from and in Match Villains this 100+ team just perfected it.The game is going directly after match3 heavyweights such as Dream Games's Royal Match 👑. The production quality […]

The mobile games "I am Cat" and "I am Security" are each doing 600K downloads a day 🙀 topping the download charts. The plot twist is that both are originally VR games 🕶️! Lets look deeper into this crazy story 🕵 You can find both games on Steam for premium price developed by New Folder Games. Actually I am Security was released on Meta's Quest store in June, 2024. Fast forward to today, both games are now published by Estoty Vilnius Feb 15th and Feb 23rd on mobile stores, and adapted for mobile gameplay, which is the key to this success. You have the full joystick control scheme with abilities and other adjustments, so it is pretty seamless. There are even ability buttons for watching ads 😅 Both games are "life simulators". I am Security is iteration on Paper's please, […]

Magic Sort by Grand Games continues to scale to $120K per day 🤑 doubling its daily revenue from the last time we looked at it in January episode. It is currently the #1 sort genre game by IAP revenue, even taking over Hexa Sort by Lion Studios (Hexa still makes a lot of ad revenue on top of this, of course 😅) I would have guessed that there would be some major feature added in the meantime in Magic Sort, but it seems the team is just rigorously updating the game with more and more levels, which just shows how level design and content frequency is the backbone of this genre 🛠️. But I am still guessing that we will see elements from Royal Match, such as the event metagame and collectible album, being added in the next few months. […]

Love & Deepspace did $30M last month, the undisputed #1 game in the interactive story genre. Making 10x more than Chapters, its next competitor in the charts. How is this possible? This is the next-gen interactive story game, as you see in the images. Fully 3D with voice-overs, the production quality is leagues ahead of its competition. The interactive story part plays more like a choice-based cinematic, with fully animated characters, all in the first person of your player with multiple camera angles. Surprisingly, this is just the first core gameplay that the game offers. Besides this, there is the dating part + a landscape combat RPG 😲. Yes, you read that right. The second core gameplay is an action RPG combat ⚔️, when the whole game switches from portrait to landscape, and you fight against enemies and bosses based […]