π Supercent's super rise up the download charts!
π Supercent's super rise up the download charts!
Supercent continues to dominate the download charts with their Pizza Ready game last week hitting #2 in worldwide downloads!+
Hello GameMakers,
This week, we look at Pizza Ready by hypercasual developer Supercent.
Thereβs been an evolution in idle games towards a category Iβm calling simulation idle. This refers to taking menu-based idle progression games like Adventure Capitalist and turning them into top-down simulations with the agency to do some of the actions in the game. Further, you can show better visual progression in the context of an isometric simulated world much better than inside of a menu.
More details are below!
Top 10 Charts
Pizza Ready hits #2 worldwide downloads. Simulation idle is very popular!
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AFK Journey at #1 downloads super well deserved.
NYT Games hits top 10 downloads.
Surprisingly very little movement in top revenue.
At #5 downloads ζη ΄θη©ΉοΌδΈεΉ΄δΉηΊ¦ aka Dou Po Cang Qiong (Battle Through the Heavensβ is an idle RPG game based on the famous Chinese novel series by Tian Can Tu Dou. Many games and movies/anime are based on famous novels in China.
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Top 10 Mobile Publishers
Top 10 Steam Games
π¦ Pizza Ready is already destroying the download charts
Korean hypercasual game developer and publisher Supercent has a massive download machine with Pizza Ready.
Based on data.ai/Sensor Tower estimates, the game has seen dramatic downloads growth over the past 4-5 months:
Oddly, or not so oddly lol, the game has most of its installs coming from Android. The game hit a high of almost 900K installs on April 5, 2024.
While we have seen a general industry shift away from hypercasual to hybridcasual over the past year or two, Supercent seems to be defying the trend for now.
Based on the data above, hypercasual seems to work much more on Android than iOS. Weβll also see how much more impact user acquisition has on hypercasual post-fingerprinting deprecation and given more changes to the UA landscape for Android.
Supercent
Since its founding in 2017, Seoul, Korea-based Supercent has been on a tear publishing 50 mobile games that I was able to find.
Some of their top games by cumulative downloads are shown below:
Notice the focus on hypercasual, simulation, and job/restaurant simulation.
Simulation Idle Games
The allure of the old menu-based idle games, popularized by Adventure Capitalist, was seeing progress, unlocking more capabilities, and seeing things grow.
Compared to the old menu-based idle games, the major innovation of the more recent wave of simulation idle games was creating a better visual game experience for their players.
Simulation idle games allow players to actively participate in the fantasy of the idle game theme and better surface visual progression in the world space.
Whatβs Next?
What could be the next evolution of idle games here?
Can you create a 3D MMO idle game? What about a more dynamic and random progression idle game via AI?
What else is possible from here?