Casual New Game Weekly weekly statistics of 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 a table according to the classification, and sort out the game rankings and other information, hoping to help industry peers.
This week's statistics are based on the rankings of major platforms from February 10th to February 16th.
Hot play mini-games: puzzle elimination continues to be hot, and "Quanming Sniper" rushes to the TOP10
Specifically, in the popularity list of WeChat mini games, puzzle games still account for most of the seats in the TOP10. Among them, "Playing with Yarn" from the finger color network topped the popularity list with super popularity, and "Brain Hole is Too Crazy", which is also a puzzle-solving game, and "Catch the Big Goose", a popular elimination game of Blue Fly Mutual Entertainment, are ranked 2nd and 3rd on the list respectively, and at the same time, "Quanming Sniper" with shooting gameplay also rushed to the top 10 of the popularity list this week, and it is currently in the 6th place on the list.
"Bright Sniper" is a product that combines shooting + parkour gameplay, players need to control the weapons in the level, move left and right in the advancing runway, eliminate various obstacles, and choose to pass through different gates to improve the weapon attributes, further enhance the shooting effect, and get more level rewards. The rewards obtained in the level challenges can be used to purchase and craft more weapon accessories to further improve the combat power of the weapon.
"All Bright Sniper"
The top products on the QQ Mini Game Hot Play List have not changed much this week, and Tencent's three Mini Games have taken the top 3, among which the classic chess and card "Tencent Happy Landlord" ranks first, and "Happy Mahjong" and "Yuanmeng Mini Game" are ranked 2nd and 3rd on the list respectively. In addition, Honey Badger Workshop's "Ghost Dormitory" still has a large number of QQ user support after many years of popularity, and continues to sit firmly in the top 4 of the hot play list this week.
The TOP5 of Douyin's popular games are also mostly old products that we are familiar with, among which Lanfei Interactive Entertainment's "Catching the Big Goose" continues to be hot and firmly occupies the top spot, and the tower defense game "Lying Flat Development" of Honey Badger Workshop and the representative work of Weipai Network "Snake Battle" are ranked 2nd and 3rd on the list respectively. At the same time, a billiards game called "Billiards King" successfully rushed to the top 5 of the popular list.
Best-selling mini-games: "Endless Winter" continues to dominate the charts, and "Original Legends" ranks among the TOP5
Compared with the hot play list, the top products on the best-selling list are more stable, in the best-selling list of WeChat mini games, Diandian Interactive's strategy game "Endless Winter" is as stable as Mount Tai, and it tops the best-selling list for another week, with "Shooting at Zombies" by Big Dream Longtu and "Three Kingdoms: Ice Age" by Huanyou Interactive winning the second and third places on the best-selling list respectively. At the same time, the tower defense product "Defending Sunflower" of Dameng Longtu continues to rank 9th on the best-selling list with its steady strength.
In the best-selling list of QQ mini games, Sanqi Mutual Entertainment's "Seeking the Dao" once again won the first place, and the MMO "Qingyun Jue: Fu Demon" and the chess and card game "Tencent Happy Landlord" won the second and third places on the list respectively. At the same time, the simulation game "Yuanmeng Mini Game" launched around "Yuanmeng Star" performed very well in Tencent's position, and once again won the TOP5 best-selling list this week.
In the best-selling list of hardcore mini games, the strategy game "Three Kingdoms: Ice Age" with the theme of the Three Kingdoms rushed to the top of the list, and the tower defense mini-game "Gun at the Zombies" by Big Dream Longtu and "Seeking the Way Daqian" under Sanqi Mutual Entertainment won the second and third places on the list respectively. At the same time, Gluttony continued to make efforts on the legendary track, and its mini-game "Original Legend" successfully entered the TOP5 best-selling list this week.
Casual mobile game: "Crazy Barbecue Stand" rushed to the TOP15, and the classic solitaire card game hit the overseas list
In terms of mobile games, the top position is still difficult to shake, NetEase's "Egg Boy Party" continues to be hot, and continues to lead the leisure category this week, firmly sitting in the TOP5 of the iOS free list, and the two classics of "Happy Match" and Weipai Network's "Snake Battle" are also unstoppable, ranking 6th and 8th on the list respectively. The phenomenal mini-game "Catch the Big Goose" is not only popular on various game platforms, but also performs well on mobile game platforms, and at present, the mobile game has successfully entered the top 10 of the free list, and it is currently in the 9th place on the list.
"Catch the Big Goose" mobile game was launched on the App Store as early as July last year, but from the point of view of the estimated download scale of the data, the popularity of the mobile game has declined rapidly, and it has been difficult to download the game in a single day since the end of July, until it entered February this year, the game suddenly ushered in a new round of growth peak, and the number of single-day downloads reached the peak of more than 50,000 times on February 15.
At the same time, a match-matching game called "Crazy Barbecue Stand" also rushed to the top 15 of the free list this week, winning the 14th place on the list. The game is a puzzle game, players only need to put three skewers of the same ingredients on the same baking tray, you can complete the serving, after serving, the other ingredients under the corresponding baking tray will be automatically added to the baking tray, until all the ingredients are eliminated, that is, the level is successful.
The mini-game version of the game has also been launched on the WeChat platform, but the mini-game version has not yet successfully made the list.
"Crazy Barbecue Stand"
In the Google Play free list in the United States, Block Blast!, which has eliminated gameplay, took the top spot for another week, followed by the sandbox game Roblox and the snake gameplay Snake Clash!, which ranked second and third, respectively. Meanwhile, 456 Run Challenge: Clash 3D and Solitaire - Classic Card Game also made it to the charts this week, finishing 11th and 12th on the free list, respectively.
Among them, "456 Run Challenge: Clash 3D" is actually a product based on the popular series "Squid Game", which combines various mini-games such as wooden man, glass plank road, sugar dismantling, hide and seek, tug-of-war and battle royale. There are not many surprises in the gameplay, and the main strategy is to win by quantity.
Another game, Solitaire - Classic Card Game, is based on the classic solitaire card game, "Solitaire", where players only need to take advantage of the slotted slots, arrange the scrambled cards according to certain rules, and finally remove all the cards from the table.
This kind of gameplay can be traced back to Europe in the 18th century, and later because of the simple and easy to use rules, it was introduced to more countries and regions such as the United States.
Solitaire - Classic Card Game is based on the original classic basic gameplay, with more exquisite graphics design and rich option settings, and has successfully rushed to the top of the overseas mobile game list.