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 May 6th to May 12th, and make a total of three ranking tables for hot-play mini-games, best-selling mini-games and casual mobile games.
Hot mini-games: "Endless Winter" and "Romantic Restaurant" are firmly in the TOP10
In the popularity list of WeChat mini games, Lanfei Mutual Entertainment's elimination game "Catch the Big Goose" has not diminished in popularity, and won the top spot on the popularity list for another week, followed by Tencent's classic chess and card game "Tencent Happy Landlord" and Zhimi Interactive's "Can't Shut Me Up" ranked second and third on the popularity list. At the same time, Diandian's interactive strategy game "Endless Winter" and Microfun's synthetic management product "Romantic Restaurant" continued to sit in the top 10 of the popularity list this week, and they are currently ranked 7th and 9th on the list respectively.
It is worth noting that both Endless Winter and Romantic Restaurant are both export-to-domestic products. Among them, "Endless Winter" stands out from the crowd of 4X SLGs by integrating simulated business gameplay. According to SensorTower data, in 2023, when the global strategy mobile game revenue market will decline by 10% as a whole, "Whiteout Survival" will buck the current, with a global annual cumulative revenue of $370 million, becoming the biggest SLG dark horse of the year. And as of the end of February 2024, the game's purchase revenue has exceeded $500 million within one year of its launch, which shows its strong ability to attract money.
Microfun's "Romantic Restaurant (Gossip Harbor)" is a product that integrates two-in-one, management, and plot, and the timely feedback of synthesis + home decoration and the confusing plot exploration have made this game extremely eye-catching. According to Diandian data, the revenue of this game has continued to rise since its launch in July 2022, and as of March 24, the monthly revenue of both terminals has exceeded 80 million yuan.
《浪漫餐厅(Gossip Harbor)》
Interestingly, after the success of "Gossip Harbor", Microfun launched a similar gameplay "Seaside Escape" in November 2022, and this game has also received a good market response, according to Diandian data, as of March 24, the game's single-month revenue has exceeded 65 million yuan.
It is with the success of "Gossip Harbor" and "Seaside Escape" that Microfun has earned a place in the fiercely competitive overseas synthesis track. Now that "Romantic Restaurant" has returned to the domestic market and successfully won the favor of small gamers, I wonder if the game can continue to maintain an upward trend after that, bringing the track of domestic Erhe to a new situation.
In the hot play list of the QQ mini game platform, the ranking of "Shoot at the Zombies" with tower defense + lawn mowing gameplay has risen, and it directly won the top spot on the hot play list this week, with "Adventure Battle" from 4399 information and "Otherworldly Abyss: Great Spirit King" from the idle gameplay followed closely behind, winning the 2nd and 3rd places on the list.
Xingbang Mutual Entertainment's "Otherworldly Abyss: The Great Spirit King" was launched on all platforms on April 19, the game is an ARPG modern mobile game that focuses on casual gameplay and integrates multiple gameplay. Since the game officially met with players, it has quickly won the attention and love of a large number of players with its unique and novel world view setting and rich and diverse gameplay, and once rushed to the top 7 of the WeChat mini game popularity list and the top 10 of the best-selling list, and also won the star product recommendation of the hardcore alliance in April.
On the Douyin mini game platform, the products that are at the top of the popular list are still mostly light puzzle products, among which the popularity of "Catching the Big Goose" from Lanfei Mutual Entertainment remains high, and it has won the top spot on the popular list for another week, and the "Lying Flat Development" of the Honey Badger Workshop ranks second on the list, while the two generations of elimination products "Sheep a Sheep" and "Brick a Brick" from Jianyou Technology won the third and fourth places on the list respectively.
Best-selling mini games: Three games under Sanqi Mutual Entertainment are on the list
In the best-selling list of WeChat mini games, manufacturers such as Sanqi Mutual Entertainment, 4399, and Yishi still managed to sit firmly in the TOP10 this week. Sanqi Mutual Entertainment relied on the gameplay of "one trick fresh", and pushed three "unboxing like" products to the TOP10 best-selling list, among which "Seeking the Way" continued to sit firmly at the top of the best-selling list, "Spirit Sword Immortal Master" and "The Nameless" are also on the list, and they are currently ranked 6th and 9th on the list respectively. At the same time, "Little Heroes" from 4399 Information and "This City Has Good Fields", a simulation game from Yishi, also won the 5th and 10th places respectively this week.
"Little Hero" is essentially a "salted fish like" product, the game integrates the classic martial arts theme, the underlying gameplay logic of salted fish like, the development system of "Adventure Wars", and even the shadow of "Crazy Knights" "unboxing" can be seen in the equipment system, which can be described as a collection of everyone.
Little Heroes
In the best-selling list of QQ mini games, "Seeking the Way of Daqian" is firmly in the first place, and the classic hit "King of Salted Fish" and Tencent's "Tencent Happy Landlord" are ranked 2nd and 3rd on the list respectively. At the same time, "Shoot at Zombies", which has achieved outstanding results on multiple platforms, has also won the support of many players on the QQ platform, and the game is currently ranked 5th on the QQ best-selling list.
The top two on the best-selling list of hardcore mini games are also fresh faces this week, with the top two on the list being covered by Sanqi Mutual Entertainment's "Seeking the Dao" and "The Nameless" respectively, while the "Slimelike" "Sub-God: Awakening of Light" from Tuyou and the turn-based game "The Legend of Sword and Fairy: A New Beginning" are ranked 3rd and 4th on the list this week, respectively.
Casual mobile game: "Happy Fishing Master" has dominated the list for 5 consecutive weeks
In terms of mobile games, "Happy Fishing Master", which simulates the "fishing" gameplay, won the TOP1 of the iOS free game list for another week, and this is the 5th week that the game dominates the list, "Happy Fishing Master" was officially launched on March 28, and the game ranked all the way after the launch, and officially topped the iOS free game list TOP1 on April 11, and has continued to dominate the list so far, and continues to sit firmly in the TOP15 of the best-selling list, which shows its terrifying strength.
Meanwhile, survival simulation game Starving Wilds has risen again after making it into the top 10 free games on iOS last week, and is currently at No. 4 on the list. Starving Wilderness is a survival game with the theme of survival in the wilderness. Upon entering the game, players will take on the role of an explorer lost in the wilderness, who needs to try to survive in a hostile environment by gathering resources, building shelters, hunting animals, and more.
The game is actually an old product that was launched in 2018 and has a high score of 8.3 on the TapTap platform. However, for a long time in the past, the game ranked behind the 250th on the iOS free list, until the end of April and early May this year, the game's ranking suddenly soared, and within a week, it rushed from 250 to the top 5 of the free list.
"Greeting Wilderness"
On the Google Play chart in the United States, South Korea's 무지개토끼's "Slime Hunter: Monster Rapmage" directly won the third place in the free list, ranking first among casual games. The sandbox platform Roblox and the "screw" puzzle gameplay Wood Nuts & Bolts, Screw are ranked 4th and 5th, respectively.
Slime Hunter : Monster Rapmage is a casual shooter mobile game set in the hunt of slimes, and the game also incorporates elements of meat pigeon gameplay at the core of the shooting gameplay. After entering the game, players will become a slime hunter, and players need to choose a character and combine various random skills through the meat pigeon system to defeat the slimes in different scene maps and win.