Market Insights: July 19'24 to Aug 06 '24

🚀Recently Rising Stars

• 🚨Lucky Defense - Gameplay Video
  • Crazy RPI, scaled lately. Idle defense gameplay with many gatchas
    
    
    
• 🚨Bacon’s Revenge - Gameplay Video
  • High RPI, scaled lately Lineer defense gameplay with tetris inventory system
    

 

👀What's Stand Out in Jam Puzzle

• 🚨Seat Away + Parking Jam hybrids (HIGHLIGHT)

  • Bus Mania - Gameplay Video
    • Fresh gameplay that merges queue mechanics with the jam style puzzles with unblocking. Multiple games have been released after this game got some downloads. (Station Jam, Traffic Jam 3D )
      

 

• 🚨Multi color targets in Jam gameplays

  • Fresh mechanic in jam style matching. Players get trays or items that point out which colors to be popped
    • Gum Jam! - Gameplay Video
      
      
      
    • Dart Balloon: Pin Puzzle - Gameplay Video
      
      
      
    • Aqua Jam - Gameplay Video
      • Another thing that stands out in the level design of this game is its maze-like level design (also see this game from the same pub)
        
        
        

• 🧠Physics based jam gameplays

  • Jam games that uses physics to add extra challenge and satisfaction layer to the game. After the multiple Screw jams have scaled lately, other innovative attempts have started to appear with different motives.
    • Tangle Tack - Gameplay Video
      • Innovative touch to a screw jam-like physics based jam gameplay
        

 

👀What's Stand Out in Sorting?

• 🧠Target based sorting games, similar to bus jam gameplays.

  • Grocery Grab - Gameplay Video
    • Goods sort gameplay with order system, player only clears the shelves if the items match to the orders
      
      
      
  • Thread Sort Puzzle - Gameplay Video
    • Sort and match thready by the given color target.
      
      
      
  • BBQ Sort - Gameplay
    • Food for thought! Poor execution and bad marketability, but this mechanic has started to be tested in multiple games from different publishers (also see this game)
      

 

🧪Innovative games

• 🚨Tower Defense

  • Trending genre! There are many puzzles released with the gravity over the last a couple of months, and there are still a lot coming, and grabbing some attention.
    • Clash of Monsters - Gameplay Video
      • Marketing Potential → Fake Pokemon theme
        

• • • Miner Fortress - Gameplay Video
      • Marketing Potential → miner theme

• • • Bacon’s Revenge - Gameplay Video
      • High RPI, scaled lately Lineer defense gameplay with tetris inventory system

• • • Lucky Defense - Gameplay Video
      • Idle defense gameplay with many monetization mechanics like gatchas

• 🧠Seat Away-like Puzzles

  • Food for thought! Multiple Seat away variations with different target mechanics have appeared, most of the games are released by the same publisher.
    • Moving Out: Color Puzzle - Gameplay Video

• • • Shop Away - Gameplay Video

• • • Bus Crowd - Gameplay Video

• 👀Other

  • Extend Jam - Gameplay Video
    • Food for thought! Innovative gameplay → Traffic Escape + Bubble Shooter
      

• • Market Match - Gameplay Video
    • Match gameplay with smart sorting mechanics
      

• • 💰Spooky Match: Tri Peaks Puzzle - Gameplay Video
    • Marketing potential + Innovative Gameplay → 4th games released with the similar theme from the same developer.
      

• • 💰Coin Cars: Restore Customs - Gameplay Video
    • Marketing potential → A casual casino game that is hidden behind a simulation meta. The game starts on heavily with the repairshop meta, and unfolds towards a casual casino gameplay.