Hypercasual games are cooked?

Hypercasual games are cooked? 💀

11.7B downloads in the past year. That’s a 7% decrease.

But the real story?
Some genres are booming. Others are falling fast.

Here’s what’s happening:

💹 𝗪𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀:

🟢 Screw Puzzle exploded: +1242.86%

🟢 Logic Puzzle steady: +9.17%

🟢 Idle Arcade up +34%

🟢 .IO games up +13.33%

🟢 Shooter – 396M downloads (+20.22%)

🔻𝗟𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘀:

🔴 Arcade – 6.1B downloads (-7%)

🔴 Runner games – 1.2B downloads (-14.81%)

🔴 Rhythm – 688M downloads (-7.71%)

🔴 Fashion & Dress Up – 235M downloads (-21.85%)

🔴 Draw Line Puzzle – 442M downloads (-15.42%)

🔴 Racing – 437M downloads (-13.35%)

🟠𝗠𝗶𝘅𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘀:
🟠 Simulation – 924M downloads (+7.83%)
→ But core Sim titles dropped -15.91%

🟠“Other Hypercasual” – +2.57%
→ Still growing, but slowly

🟠 Puzzle games – 3.2B downloads (-4.7%)

The big insight?

Players want 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘨e.
And 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.

The hypercasual space isn’t dying:
It’s evolving.

If you’re building in this space:
→ Focus on variety
→ Bet on brain games
→ Watch genre fatigue closely

Adapt or get left behind.