Mobile Market Breakthroughs: August 2018
The App Annie platform has published an index of the most downloaded and highest-grossing games in August. With an eye on him and the DataMagic service, we note which games were the main breakthroughs of last month in terms of downloads and sales.
Happy Glass
What is the game about?
This summer brought back the trend for drawing and physics in games. After the success of Love Balls, where the player drew objects that were supposed to help one ball roll to another, many teams rushed to develop this idea. At the same time, the developers of Love Balls itself, Lion Studios, also worked tirelessly.
The result of their labors was Happy Glass. In it, the player must draw a line or object in such a way that the water can bypass the obstacle and fill the glass.
Happy GlassWhat have you achieved?
The game took second place in the top of the most downloaded games in the world on iOS. According to DataMagic, for this she needed to reach the mark of 5 million downloads.
Ultra Sharp
What is the game about?
Another physics game. Also from Lion Studios, which, recall, is a division of the AppLovin marketing platform.
In the game, the user slices objects in such a way that they perform a game task at the level under the influence of game physics.
For example, a rectangle is swinging on a rope. There is an asterisk under the rectangle that should be assembled. We cut the rectangle into two halves with a swipe when it passes under the star. The half falls and collects the star. The level is passed.
Ultra SharpWhat have you achieved?
Entered the top ten most downloaded iOS games in the world (Downloads, iOS, World). To do this, the game had to be installed more than 4 million times.
Bumper.io
What is the game about?
The project is another multiplayer entertainment in the spirit of Agar.io . But this time from the French from Voodoo, who made their debut in the genre this summer with the project Hole.io .
The essence of the project is conceptually close to the King of the Mountain game. There is a platform on which there are a dozen so-called bumpers (balls with a button on the back). The player controls one of these balls. The game task is to push all the opponents from the playground into the water.
As soon as the player pushes the opponent’s ball, his bumper increases and it becomes easier to push opponents. In no case should the opponent be substituted with a button, pressing which turns on acceleration, which can instantly throw the player’s bumper off the field.
Bumper.ioWhat have you achieved?
The sixth position in the top of the most downloaded games on iOS in the world. According to DataMagic, the game had more than 6 million downloads in the App Store in August.
Recall that Happy Glass had fewer downloads, although it was higher in the top of App Annie. The head of DataMagic Maxim Samorukov explains this situation with abnormally rapid growth Happy Glass, “Above the expectations of the model.”
Sen-Seyya (圣斗士星矢)
What is the game about?
A large-scale Chinese buttler made in the style of anime of the 80s. His action game resembles a more complex version of the one in Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes.
圣斗士星矢（腾讯）What have you achieved?
The game debuted in the top of the highest-grossing games in the world on iOS (Revenue, iOS, World). She took sixth place. According to DataMagic, her earnings in the debut month amounted to almost $34 million.
“Fantasy Modeling” (梦幻模拟战)
What is the game about?
Chinese reading of the Fire Emblem series. In other words, a free-play turn-based tactical game, whose core implies (but not the fact that it provides within the mobile format) a high role of the user skill in victory. There is also a gacha and a complex pumping of game characters.
梦幻模拟战What have you achieved?
Ranked seventh in the world in terms of App Store revenue (Revenue, iOS, World). Her earnings for the first month of surgery amounted to $28 million.
Methodology
We take the index, look at what new items are in its tops. The index is not a static table for us. We are not based solely on the basic table, which shows the cumulative top of the App Store and Google Play. We also study the tops in the index, segmented by stores, in rare cases when there are no new products, we consider regional charts.
In the column “What have you achieved?» we indicate exactly where the game achieved the result. For example, “the top most downloaded games in the world on iOS” or “the top ten of Google Play”. To avoid confusion, we can simply indicate a specific index in parentheses, a la (Downloads, iOS, World).
Sources: App Annie, DataMagic
