The casual new tour weekly report counts WeChat mini games, QQ mini games, Douyin mini games, hardcore mini games, and new game explosions on the App Store and Google Play, and makes tables according to classification, and publishes information such as game rankings, hoping to help industry peers.
This week's statistics intercepted the ranking of major platforms from February 13 to February 19, and produced three ranking tables: casual games, hyper-casual games and heavy H5 games. In terms of casual games, on the WeChat mini game platform, "Happy Elimination Happy Holiday", which controls the synthesis + operation gameplay of technology, rose in the ranking and ranked TOP7 on the WeChat popularity list; In the QQ mini game, "QBOX" fell to the top, and "Egg Boy Carnival Party" fell in the ranking; In the Douyin mini-game, the arcade gameplay "Black Hole Invasion" continues to hold the top 5 of the popular list.
In terms of hyper-casual games, in the list of free games in the App Store, the proportion of hyper-casual at the top of the list declined, and "All People Find Fault 2" ranked among the TOP7; In the list of Google Play's free games, "Attack Hole" is firmly at the top of the list, and "ColorMe - Painting Book", which simulates coloring gameplay, rushed into the TOP3 of the list.
In terms of heavy games, in the QQ Mini Games list, Yunyou Interactive's "Hulai Three Kingdoms" ranked first on QQ's hardcore list, and "Hero Kill" returned to the QQ best-selling list TOP10; Among the hardcore mini-games, the war strategy game "Pocket Raiders" is firmly at the top of the list, and the legendary game "King's Landing Legend" from Oasis Interactive rushed to the hardcore hot list TOP5.
Casual mini-games: synthesis + elimination of hot games are frequent, and "Food Wars" is firmly in the TOP2
In terms of casual games this week, in the WeChat mini game, the top of the popularity list is still dominated by old products that have been in operation for many years, in addition to the old games, the two-in-one + business gameplay product "Happy Elimination Happy Holiday" from Unified Technology continues to rise in the ranking, and this week rushed to the top 7 of the WeChat popularity list.
Recently, a variety of mini games with synthesis + management gameplay have been welcomed on the WeChat platform, but overall, there is not much innovation in such products, and the core gameplay is mostly based on the structure of two-in-one and supplemented by long-term operation; In terms of art style design, most of them adopt European and American comic book styles. This issue's "Happy Elimination Happy Holiday" still fails to make major innovations in these two aspects.
"Happy Elimination Happy Holiday"
On the QQ Mini Game platform, Tencent's pet raising mini game "QBOX" fell down in the ranking, falling to the top of the hot play list, and is currently ranked 2nd in the QQ Mini Game Hot Play List. At the same time, "Egg Boy Carnival Party", which was previously favored by a large number of players on the QQ platform, has also dropped significantly this week, and the current ranking has fallen out of the TOP10.
In the Douyin mini game platform, the official revealed that "Sheep and Sheep", which has attracted more than 100 million dollars, continues to dominate the top, and the synthetic mini game "Food Wars" published by Ohayoo is close behind, ranking second on the list. From the perspective of game content, "Food Wars" inherits the core gameplay and coolness of "Sheep and Sheep", and also makes certain innovations in the game theme, art style and interaction methods, and the food theme close to life and the pull-and-drop gameplay with a higher degree of freedom make the game finally stand out from a crowd of "sheep-like sheep" products.
Food Wars
Hyper-casual game: "All People Find Fault 2" rushes into the TOP10, and the black hole devouring gameplay continues to be hot
In terms of hyper-casual, in the domestic App Store free game list, the proportion of hyper-casual games at the top of the list has decreased, and there are only eight hyper-casual products in the TOP30 free list. Among them, the puzzle game "All People Find Fault 2" has risen significantly, and the game hovered between 30 and 50 places on the list last week, until this Thursday, the game went straight to the TOP10, and entered the top 7 free games on iOS over the weekend.
Meanwhile, another text puzzle game, Master of Literacy, also performed well this week, steadily entering the TOP30 free-to-play list and is currently ranked 29th. There are also many such products that have attracted attention recently, and on the whole, keenly capturing the current hot elements on the Internet and quickly embedding them into games are the main factors that attract players for such products.
In the list of Google Play free games in the United States, the arcade game "Attack Hole" has been holding the top position of hyper-casual Quill for many weeks. And recently, the classic black hole devouring gameplay is very popular at home and abroad, and "Black Hole Invasion" released by spaceship information on the Douyin mini game platform also appeared on the top 5 of the hot list this week, but the mechanics of the two games are slightly different.
In Attack Hole, players need to devour as many weapons on the interface as possible within a specified time, and then use the weapons in the black hole to destroy enemies during the confrontation phase to get level rewards.
"Attack Hole" buy video
Source: App Growing Global
"Black Hole Invasion" is mainly divided into three gameplay modes, classic mode: challenge the highest score in 2 minutes; Single player mode: clear the map in 2 minutes; Championship: Chicken-eating gameplay and become the last surviving black hole in pitted against each other. And compared to the simple graphics of "Attack Hole", "Black Hole Invasion" has designed more scene maps, which players can unlock by watching ads.
Black Hole Invasion game screen
Heavy H5 games: "Hulai Three Kingdoms" firmly occupies the top of the list, and "Hero Kill" returns to the TOP10
In terms of heavy games, in the QQ Mini Game best-selling list, Yunyou Interactive's "Hulai Three Kingdoms" firmly ranked first in QQ's heavy Mini Game and ranked TOP2 on QQ's best-selling list. At the same time, Tencent's "Hero Kill" has significantly improved its ranking this week, once again winning the top 10 of QQ's best-selling list.
In the list of hardcore mini-games, "Pocket Raider" won the top position for another week, and the two fairy games "Heavenly Sword and Legend" and "The Legend of Mortal Gods" were ranked 3rd and 4th on the list respectively. At the same time, "Easy Repair" also re-entered the top of the hardcore mini-game hot list this week, and it is currently at number 12 on the list.