🚀 Marketwire | Garena's Black Clover M bursts to #1 WW downloads
🚀 Marketwire | Garena's Black Clover M bursts to #1 WW downloads
Hits 16M downloads and almost $3M in net revenue in first week of global launch
What’s up, GameMakers.
Today, we take a quick look at Garena’s Black Clover M, a game globally launched on Nov 29/30 on iOS and Google Play, respectively.
In other news, I hosed my back and am sick as a dog writing to you lying down almost horizontally on a chair to get this quick update out to you all.
You’re welcome! Lol.
Top 10 Charts
Garena sucking up all of the downloads with both #1 and #3 worldwide downloaded games over the past week.
Build a Queen from Supersonic, aka Ironsource, aka Unity, also broke into the top 10 downloads this week.
Spend seems to have leveled off in Sumzap’s Jujutsu Kaisen Phantom Parade as it falls to #10 worldwide revenue. Remember again, this is only available in Japan so would have been hard to sustain.
I’m gonna keep repeating myself here, but someday, someone should figure out how Evony keeps hanging around in top 10 revenue US.
The #7 downloaded game in China seems to be based on a Chinese manga about racing.
Top 10 Mobile Publishers
Top 5 Mobile Trending
Top 10 Steam Games
Lethal Company refuses to let go of #1. “Come at me CS2!”
Congrats to Destiny 2 and Dead by Daylight for making huge jumps in top Steam sellers.
🔦 Spotlight | Garena Online’s Black Clover M hits #1 worldwide downloads
Launched November 29/30 (iOS/Android), Black Clover M has burst onto the scene, aggregating 16M downloads and almost $3M in revenue according to data.ai estimates:
Last week, we covered the huge revenue launch of the Japanese anime-based game Jujutsu Kaisen Phantom Parade, which hit #1 worldwide revenue. Well, guess what? Yep, Black Clover is a popular anime series from Shonen Jump and TV Tokyo.
The game itself is a typical team-battle RPG. Basically, a modern-day updated Summoners War with even more systems and modern twists.
Despite it’s F2P/pay-to-win nature, the game is also very well received with a 4.7 star rating on Google Play.
Now, why didn’t Com2Us do this? Come on, guys, this should have been a layup for you guys.
Developer VIC Game Studios built the game on UE4, continuing the trend of modern mobile games to eschew lower-end device support and Unity in favor of higher fidelity and polish experiences via UE.
Bruh, all the Koreans are going Unreal and super fidelity. VIC Game Studios is a Korean developer established by Black Desert Online maker Pearl Abyss in 2020.
Not much more info can be found on the developer from their website:
Hmm… why didn’t Pearl Abyss publish this game themselves?
Unsurprisingly, given the reach of Garena Free Fire, the #1 geography for downloads for the game is Brazil by almost 3X to the US at a distant second.
Welcome to the rise of anime games and congrats to Garena and VIC Games Studio.
Finally, if you want to go more in depth on the gameplay, check out this video from Volkin Journey:
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