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...
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Turning Passive Mechanics Into Major Retention Drivers
Appointment Features Drive Retention The Sims FreePlay’s latest expansion replaces a passive gardening mechanic with an appointment system where players grow crops to fulfill orders. In the expansion, crops grow faster, and players must return to...
Brawl Stars Changes Its Most Successful Expansion Again
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...
Use Event Progressions To Unify Live Ops
Use Event Progressions To Unify Live Ops In Coin Master’s Egg Hunt, players engage with eight connected events to earn tokens that advance them on a quest map. While Egg Hunt runs for five days, most of the connected events only run for a day or...
Seasonal Collections Are a Major Trend for Legacy Casual Apps
Seasonal Collections Are a Major Trend In Candy Crush Saga’s Pins, players progress in several base game features and events to earn pins that help them complete 15 seasonal collection sets. This strong integration across the app’s live ops creates...
How Hypercasual Mechanics Helped Strategy Overtake RPG
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...
Letting Players Vote Through Engagement
Letting Players Vote Through Engagement Subway Surfers’ Team Takedown offers two special levels that are each associated with a new hero. Each level has a global reward meter that players fill by collecting currency during that level. Completing...
Top Girl Brings a Relationship Sim Twist to 4X
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...
Hero-Sharing Is a Major Opportunity for Retention
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...
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