The main breakthroughs of the mobile market: April 2018
On April 17, App Annie published the mobile app index for April. With an eye on him, we note which games were the main breakthroughs of last month in terms of downloads and sales.
Identity V
The top three most downloaded mobile iOS games in April included Identity V. This is a recent release by the Chinese company NetEase.
Identity V’s position in the top of the most downloaded mobile games (iOS, World, April)
The project is a reinterpretation of the popular multiplayer horror Dead by Daylight. As in the original Starbreeze Studios game, a hunter and victims will stand out from the player pool before each match. Depending on the chosen role in the game session, the user must either kill everyone or escape from the hands of a monster.
Identity V
The game has not yet been released outside of China, where last month it was among the Top 10 highest-grossing projects.
Dynamics of Identity V’s position in the top box office games (iOS, China, April)
Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery
Large-scale by mobile standards, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery is difficult to fit into any particular genre. The game created by Jam City Studio is closest to the definition of “role-playing game with timers”.
Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery
Because of the latter, as well as the high cost of their admission, both critics and players managed to criticize the game. But this did not prevent the game from entering the top ten most popular games in the App Store and Google Play by downloads in April. The game has more than 10 million installations on the Android platform alone.
Position Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery in the top of total downloads (combined iOS and Google Play data, mir, April)
Love Ball
The game about love Love Ball in terms of downloads is not inferior to Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery. She also has more than 10 million installations on Android, and by the end of April she took fifth place in the index of the most downloaded iOS games in April.
Love Ball’s position in the top of the most downloaded mobile games (iOS, World, April)
Love Ball is a physical puzzle game in which the user has to draw lines in such a way that they allow two balls to collide.
Love Ball
Despite the predominantly advertising monetization model, the game is very similar in structure to the first mobile premium projects for smartphones – with packs of levels and the ability to score a different number of stars per level.
Rise Up
The Turkish minimalistic balloon game Rise Up in April was the leader in iOS downloads in the United States and was among the top ten most downloaded in the main Western markets.
Rise Up
The project, where the player must break an obstacle in front of the ball, is so far the only release of Serkan Ozyilmaz, but its success is hardly accidental. The Rise Up developer is already accepting applications for the publication of projects, promising to bring them to the top. He is probably interested in implementing the Ketchapp and Voodoo business model, specializing in the regular release of simple but addictive mobile products.
Source: App Annie
