PUBG Mobile’s Unfail is an asymmetrical horror mode similar to Behavior Interactive’s Dead by Daylight. In Unfail, a team of four players completes tasks while avoiding a boss controlled by a fifth player. During Unfail’s early access, PUBG Mobile...
Clash Royale’s Merge Tactics adds a full-scale auto-chess mode using cards from the app’s base game, complete with a league progression and IAPs. This mode simplifies several aspects of auto-chess gameplay, like in-match leveling and round formats,...
How To Improve Long-Running Collections MARVEL SNAP’s Snap Packs are a major rework of the app’s core card-collecting progression. In the previous system, base game milestones awarded a chance to open a weekly loot box containing four cards, but...
Brawl Stars Changes Its Expansion Format Again Brawl Stars’ Battle for Katana Kingdom follows the structure of the app’s recent major expansions by offering event abilities, new skins, and several new modes. However, this expansion splits its...
How Strategy Overtook RPG as Core’s Top Genre In 2024, revenue among the top five strategy apps grew an average of almost 400% YoY, helping strategy overtake RPG as the top genre in the core market. Last War: Survival, the top strategy app, has...
Top Girl's 4X Twist Pays Off A3GAMES’ Top Girl layers a girl group theme over 4X strategy mechanics by having players manage and upgrade a roster of pop stars while “performing concerts” to conquer bases. The app also offers several hypercasual...
How Hero-Sharing Drives Retention Cookie Run: Kingdom’s latest feature allows players to rent out one hero from their collection, enabling all other players to temporarily use that hero. This feature gives players access to powerful heroes, which...
Bidding Mechanics Remove the Ceiling on Spend Garena Free Fire’s latest competition introduces an auction for cosmetics with unique ID numbers. To earn the cosmetics, players bid premium currency to rank on a 100-player auction board, and ranking...
Temporary Hero Abilities Drive Huge Revenue Brawl Stars hit record-high weekly revenue twice this year by releasing expansions that include powerful temporary abilities and new game modes. The first, Godzilla Event, awards temporary abilities...
