Casual New Game Weekly weekly statistics on WeChat Mini Games, QQ Mini Games, Douyin Mini Games, Hardcore Mini Games, as well as new games on the App Store and Google Play, and make tables according to classification, and publish information such as game rankings, hoping to help industry peers.
This week's statistics intercept the rankings of major platforms from April 22nd to April 28th, and a total of three ranking tables for casual games, light casual games and heavy H5 games are produced.
Casual mini-games: The theme of counterattack continues to be popular, and "Flying Life 3" is on the list
In terms of casual games, on the WeChat mini game platform, Lanfei Mutual Entertainment's elimination game "Catch the Big Goose" won the top spot in popularity for another week, followed by Zhimi Network's elimination game "Can't Shut Me Up" and Tencent's classic chess and card game "Tencent Happy Landlord", ranking third and fourth in popularity respectively. At the same time, another counterattack-themed simulation game "Flying Life 3" also rushed to the top 10 of the popularity list this week, and it is currently in the 8th place on the list.
Among them, "Flying Life 3" is a counterattack-themed game, in which players can experience various mini-games such as puzzles, puzzles, and adventures, and while completing various challenges, players will also advance the plot process, accumulate more wealth, and achieve a counterattack in life. Previously, there have been many such popular games on the market, similar to the super cool plot of short dramas, combined with rich and diverse small gameplay, which is the main highlight of this type of game.
"Flying Life 3"
The QQ mini game platform hot play list changed slightly this week, and the ranking of "Shooting at Zombies" with tower defense + lawn mowing gameplay rose, directly topping the hot play list, followed by Tencent's "Yuan Dream Star" and "Happy Landlord", winning the second and third places on the list.
On the Douyin mini game platform, the popularity of "Catching the Big Goose" from Lanfei Interactive Entertainment remained high, and it won the top spot on the popular list for another week, while the two-generation elimination products "Sheep a Sheep" and "Brick a Brick" from Jianyou Technology won the 3rd and 4th places on the list respectively. "Shooting at Zombies" continues to rank stable this week, and is currently ranked 6th on Douyin's popular list.
It is worth noting that "Shoot at Zombies" has outstanding performance on WeChat, QQ, and Douyin, and this week the game has been on the WeChat popularity list TOP7, QQ hot play list TOP1 and Douyin hot list TOP6, which shows its strong strength.
Light casual games: The mobile game "Mountains and Rivers Travel" is airborne, and "Cats and Soup" is super cute
In terms of mobile games, "Happy Fishing Master", which simulates "fishing" gameplay, continues to dominate the top 1 of the iOS free game and best-selling game lists, while "Mountain and River Traveler" with puzzle gameplay and "Cat and Soup" with healing simulation game also entered the top 5 at the same time this week, and they are currently ranked 2nd and 4th respectively on the iOS free game list.
"Happy Fishing Master" was officially launched on March 28, and after the game's ranking soared all the way after its launch, and after officially topping the iOS free game list TOP1 on April 11, it has continued to dominate the top spot so far, and it has also continued to sit firmly in the TOP15 on the best-selling list, which shows its terrifying strength.
In terms of gameplay, the game is similar to Fishing Clash, which was launched in 2016 by Polish team Ten Square Games. After entering the "Happy Fishing Master", players can quickly wait until the fish is hooked as long as they consume physical strength, and then the player needs to stab the fish when the pointer of the charging bar reaches the lowest point, which can greatly reduce the endurance of the fish, and then, we only need to "reel in the line" to continue to reduce the physical strength of the fish and shorten the distance with the fish, but be careful when reeling the line, when the tension of the fishing line reaches the limit, there will be a risk of breaking. In order to avoid breaking the fishing line, players can accumulate power by swinging the rod to maintain continuous output. Through this process, players will be able to easily capture a variety of rare fish and unlock more mysterious fishing spots.
"Happy Fishing Master"
After entering the game, players will travel to the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, incarnate as Detective Shen Zhongping, and explore the truth behind the bizarre case. The well-researched historical and humanistic design, the unique Chinese style ink painting style, the treacherous plot case and the exquisite reasoning and detective process have won the favor of many puzzle game lovers as soon as the game was launched.
After the PC version of the game was officially launched at the beginning of this year, it received a high praise rate of 97%, and was even called a "domestic masterpiece" by many players. On April 28, the mobile version of "Mountains and Rivers Travel" was officially launched, and on the day of its launch, the game rushed to the second place on the iOS free game list.
The development team behind "Mountain and Sea Traveler" was the first to do an offline real-life escape room shop, and has cooperated with well-known IPs such as "Forbidden City" and "Marvel", and has proposed a number of interactive puzzle games, which have achieved very bright results in the industry. After that, the team began to actively try to develop online experience puzzle games, and then launched two products with player ratings of more than 9 points - the touch puzzle mobile game "Mimo" and the national style banner mystery detective game "Mountains and Rivers Detective". It is especially worth mentioning that in 2021, miHoYo has held 23.63% of the shares through two rounds of investment, becoming the largest shareholder behind the House of Secrets.
"Cats and Soup" is an old product, the game comes from the Korean R&D team Hidea, and it has begun to gradually meet players in many overseas regions as early as 2021. According to Diandian data, the game has exceeded 50 million downloads worldwide since its launch, with a cumulative revenue of about $18 million.
The game is played by selling the soup made by the cats to earn gold, which can then be spent to buy more cats and facilities. The fresh painting style, super cute cats and relatively Buddhist business gameplay make the game exude full healing magic. At the same time that the game has landed in the mainland mobile game market, its mini-game version has also been launched, and now the mini-game "Cats and Soup" has also rushed to the 12th place on the WeChat popularity list and the 20th place on the play list.
Cats and Soup
On the Google Play list in the United States, this week is also a fight between the gods, judging from the TOP10 list, more than half of the games have rushed to the top 3 of the free game list this week. Block Blast!, the puzzle player, topped the list, followed by Roblox and Hexa Sort, a puzzle game from Lion Studios, at No. 2 and No. 3 on Google Play's free-to-play list, respectively. Supercent's business simulation game Pizza Ready! is currently in the top 9 of the free list, and it also hit the top 1 of the free list this week.
Hexa Sort is a stacked puzzle game in which the player needs to reposition the bricks with the help of empty spaces on the board, where the bricks of the same color at the top will automatically transfer to the same kind when they are in adjacent positions, and the player can complete the level by sorting them out of the same color.
《Hexa Sort》
On the whole, the gameplay logic is basically the same as the previous popular water sorting gameplay, but the game also adds a building coloring module in addition to the basic core gameplay, which further enhances the richness of the game content and the player's sense of achievement.
And the teahouse noticed that at present, "Hexa Sort" has been launched on the domestic WeChat mini game platform, and the domestic version is called "My Favorite Decompression".
Heavy H5 games: "Hulai Three Kingdoms" returned to the top of the list, and "Mountains and Seas of the North Wilderness" rose in the rankings
In terms of heavy games, in the best-selling list of QQ Mini Games, Forgame Interactive's "Hulai Three Kingdoms Mobile Version" rose in the ranking and re-topped the top of QQ's heavy mini games, followed by Wheat Interactive Entertainment's "Mountains and Seas North Wilderness" and Zhicheng Interactive Entertainment's card game "Daotianlu", which won the 5th and 7th places on the best-selling list of QQ Mini Games respectively. At the same time, the classic card game "Hero Kill" from Tencent also returned to the top of the best-selling list of QQ Mini Games this week, and it is currently in the 13th place on the list.
In the list of hardcore mini games, the new turn-based work "The Legend of Sword and Fairy: A New Beginning" with the theme of Sword and Fairy topped the hardcore heavy list for another week, while "Pocket Warrior" with modern strategic gameplay and "Journey to the West" with idle gameplay are ranked 4th and 5th on the list respectively. At the same time, "Doomsday Empire", which has a doomsday-themed management gameplay, also returned to the top of the hardcore best-selling list this week, and it is currently in the 16th place on the list.