End-of-Season Collection Pushes Are a Win-Win Toon Blast’s Wild Journey lets players accelerate their collection progress during the season’s final week by completing base game levels to fill a series of nine meters that exclusively award...
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How To Improve Long-Running Collections
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...
Monopoly GO! Transforms Daily Competitions Into a Seasonal Progression
Monopoly GO! Builds on Its Daily Competitions Monopoly GO!’s Tycoon Express offers a seasonal progression with seven levels that are tied to the app’s daily tournaments. Players now earn tokens based on their tournament ranking, and reaching...
Turn Near-Wins Into Bonus Upgrades
Turn Near-Wins Into Bonus Upgrades In Jackpot Friends’ Thunderous Riches, players land specific symbols during base and free spins to upgrade prizes for a wheel and trigger a respin bonus. In respins, the number of symbols players land determines...
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...
Why Mini-Steppers Should Have More Progressions
Why Mini-Steppers Should Have Progressions In DoubleDown’s Smash the Piggy, players spin on a mini-stepper to upgrade and break open piggy banks above the reels. During spins, landing coin symbols adds currency to the bank and can upgrade its...
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...
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