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 spearheaded this shift, achieving 1400% YoY growth by integrating hypercasual mechanics across its playable ads, FTUE, and core gameplay loop.
In addition to Last War, other core titles like Archero 2 and Survivor.io have found success by combining action-oriented gameplay with hypercasual mechanics. The rapid growth of these apps suggests the possibility of a new generation of core apps that move away from traditional 4X and RPG structures in favor of novel hypercasual gameplay with deep progressions.
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