AppMagic shared a report which includes some genres’ numbers, stats, and dynamics in 2022. Games with $50k+ monthly revenue are named as a success.
Merge-2
100 games released in 2022; 6 successful. Success Rate – 6%.
- The genre grew by 102% YoY by revenue.
- Half of the monthly genre revenue ($14.8m) is generated by one game – Merge Mansion ($7.4M in December 2022).
Match-3 Tile
280 games released in 2022; 6 successful. Success Rate – 2.2%.
- Genre monthly revenue reached $16M (+85% YoY).
- $10.1M of this amount is generated by one game – Triple Match 3D.
- Genre downloads fell down by 12% YoY.
Idle Tycoon
241 games released in 2022; 10 successful. Success Rate – 4.2%
- Genre revenue increased by 30% YoY.
- AppMagic analysts consider the genre as a perspective with a notion that new projects are growing by revenue, and old ones are declining. There are no signs of stagnation.
Farming Games
55 games released in 2022; 1 successful. Success Rate – 1.8%.
- Genre revenue increased by 11%, but old titles generated it.
Survival Arena
134 games released in 2022; 4 successful. Success Rate – 3%.
Shooters
678 games released in 2022; 4 successful. Success Rate – 0.6%.
- Genre revenue dropped during the year by almost 25%.
Hypercasual games
18,395 games released in 2022; 157 successful (with 500k+ monthly downloads). Success Rate – 0.85%.
- Overall downloads dropped by 15% YoY.
