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06/03/2026

Türkiye’s Mobile Gaming Landscape 2026 🇹🇷

Yes, we know you’ve already seen plenty of yearly reports on Türkiye. That’s why we decided to save you time and put together the ULTIMATE one 🤌

And honestly, how could we not? Over the past 6 years Turkish developers revenue increased 450%, global market share grew from 1% to 5%, and, despite the mobile market stagnation, Türkiye has actually achieved 6% YoY growth in 2025 🤩

To deliver the best in class insights we partnered with a leading mobile gaming content platform Gamingion ⭐️

Here’s what we covered:

1️⃣ Global yearly trends: revenue and download growth, market share, top genres, games, and publishers in Türkiye.

2️⃣ Investments & M&A: funding activity, key investors and acquirers.

3️⃣ Key regional traits: LiveOps, standout launches, and Turkish development trends.

You totally wouldn’t want to miss it! All the insights are available via the link: https://appmagic.rocks/research/turkiye-mobile-gaming-landscape-2026?utm_source=AMFacebook&utm_campaign=Turkiye2026

06/02/2026

Casual Puzzle: Has It Reached Its Ceiling, and Which Subgenre Still Has Room to Grow? 🧩

Casual Puzzle sits at the top of the mobile market with $8.7B in IAP revenue and 7.3B downloads in 2025, making it a natural target for developers searching for the next big opportunity 👀

However, looking at its major contributor, Match-3, which accounts for 58% of the market, we can see that its IAP revenue has hit a ceiling, with no meaningful ad revenue to cushion it. Monthly downloads have declined by more than 20%, and the subgenre remains dominated by a handful of long-time leaders such as Candy Crush Saga and Royal Match.

Blast, which accounts for less than 1% of the 2025 IAP market revenue, took a steep nosedive in 2023. Most of its former contenders never regained momentum with only Toon Blast continuing to grow solo.

But what about the evergreen Merge subgenre? Does it still hold promise for new entrants, or is it better to quit before starting? 🤔

Find out in our latest article, written in collaboration with Ahmetcan Demirel, CPO at Rotatelab and Product Advisor to Puzzle Teams: https://appmagic.rocks/blog/puzzles-in-2026?utm_source=AMFacebook

05/21/2026

5 Gacha Events That Helped Love and Deepspace Reach $1B in User Spend 🤩

Gacha LiveOps is one of the most popular mechanics in Midcore, now used in 80% of top-grossing titles, with its presence up 60% since 2024.

One of the strongest recent examples is Love and Deepspace. Since its 2024 launch, the game generated $750M in IAP revenue, 31M downloads, and crossed $1B in user spend 🔥

So, which gacha events helped drive its success?

1️⃣ All-character events that deliver high level of diversity and cover different player motivations, helping drive revenue spikes of up to +154%.

2️⃣ Battle skin releases where players unlock limited skins by pulling new character cards through gacha, combining progression impact, rarity, and community hype, boosting revenue up to +130%.

3️⃣ Character birthday events that recreate real-life celebrations through narrative, DIY gifts, and immersive interactions, increasing revenue up to +50%.

We left 2 more events for you to learn about in our latest article 😉

Don’t miss it out: https://appmagic.rocks/research/love-and-deepspace-monetization?utm_source=AMFacebook

05/20/2026

Castle Busters: A New Game-Changer in the Artillery Shooter Market 🚀

Castle Busters by Voodoo started showing the first signs of future success back in February and, through continuous growth, reached $4M in monthly revenue in April 2026.

As its name suggests, the game truly busted the Artillery Shooter market, growing the subgenre 4.6x year-over-year and accounting for 72% of its revenue in April 2026 🤩

The last time the market saw similar growth was back in 2022 with the release of DDTank Adventure (弹弹堂大冒险), which peaked at $14M in monthly revenue before quickly declining afterwards.

Voodoo previously experimented with Artillery Shooter titles, with Archery Clash! reaching $4.9M in lifetime revenue since 2023. This time, however, the company shifted from Hypercasual to a more Midcore gameplay approach.

Today, we continue watching Castle Busters climb the Midcore weekly grossing chart, reaching №66 last week: https://appmagic.rocks/top-charts/apps?tag=243571&aggregation=week&date=2026-05-11&utm_source=AMFacebook

Would it be able to sustain its growth? Let’s keep an eye on it 😉

05/19/2026

Love and Deepspace: Pulling $1B User Spend On Gacha Events ❤️🪐

A relatively young title released in January 2024, Love and Deepspace by Paper Games was just one step away from entering the top 10 grossing Midcore titles of 2025. In China, it climbed to №9 by IAP revenue in 2025, right alongside titles from multi-billion-dollar players like Tencent, NetEase, and Century Games.

So, how did they do it? The answer lies in its gacha events ✨

In our latest article, we break down:
— How the core gameplay design supports gacha monetization
— A breakdown of the all 5 types of gacha events in the game
— Love and Deepspace’s top-performing offers and how they form the overall revenue mix

Get your notebooks ready: there’s a lot Midcore teams can learn from Love and Deepspace’s success. And a lot of beautiful screenshots to check out! 🤭

Here goes the link: https://appmagic.rocks/research/love-and-deepspace-monetization?utm_source=AMFacebook&utm_campaign=LADS

05/15/2026

AppMagic Is Acquired by Sensor Tower, Becoming Its Dedicated SMB Market Intelligence Solution

Since its inception, AppMagic’s goal has been to help studios just starting their path in mobile app development scale faster while avoiding costly mistakes.

Staying true to this vision, we eventually managed to gain the trust of numerous companies across the globe, expand our capabilities, and grow beyond mobile.

With the acquisition by Sensor Tower, this goal doesn’t change. In fact, we see this as an opportunity to double-down on our mission to best serve small and midsize studios. But now, we can do it with new resources and expanded data capabilities.

It’s a new chapter in AppMagic’s journey and we can’t wait to see what the future holds for all of us together!

Yours truly,
AppMagic team 💛

05/12/2026

How EVADAV Turned Data Into Two Revenue-Generating Products With AppMagic 💪

In 2025, EVADAV, a traffic monetization and performance marketing company that also builds its own apps, was looking for a way to cut through market noise and identify app ideas with strong product-market fit.

That’s where AppMagic came in 🦸

Using our platform, the team was able to:
— Identify niches that matched their growth model
— Compare similar apps and analyze revenue distribution
— Evaluate monetization through revenue, downloads, and RpD
— Review traffic sources and ad activity across target markets

This resulted in the launch of two new apps, Pure AI Note and Pet Coach, that already proved their market fit and started generating revenue. It also allowed the team to create a data-driven analysis framework for scaling existing apps and launching new ones ✨

Learn more about the AppMagic tools EVADAV uses in its app idea generation process and the insights this analysis provides: https://appmagic.rocks/blog/evadav-case-study?utm_source=AMFacebook&utm_campaign=EvadavCase

05/07/2026

How to Detect Mobile App Trends: 5 Data-Driven Ways for Games & Apps 🔎

Mobile app trend analysis sounds simple, until you realize the segment growth came from a different subcategory, the market is already overcrowded, or the ‘hot trend’ peaked months ago 🥲

In our latest article, we break down 5 approaches to identifying mobile app trends while accounting for the key peculiarities of app market analysis:

1️⃣ Spot categories driving segment growth, like AI chatbots generating 93% of Gen AI revenue

2️⃣ Identify emerging subgenres early, like Wool Screw Puzzles in 2025

3️⃣ Discover trend-setting titles like Pixel Flow in Hybridcasual Puzzles

4️⃣ Analyze growth distribution and find out that ChatGPT accounts for 77% of Gen AI revenue

5️⃣ Validate IP-based opportunities to learn why Squid Game Season 2-inspired A*O and LiveOps outperformed new game releases

Learn more about these approaches and how we get to the core of emerging trends using AppMagic on real market examples: https://appmagic.rocks/blog/mobile-app-trends-analysis?utm_campaign=AppTrendsSEO&utm_source=AMFacebook

05/06/2026

Top 10 Grossing Games in April 2026: Worldwide, Tier-1 West & Tier-1 East

Let’s start May with a big recap of changes in the grossing games rankings 👀

Worldwide 🌍
• Honor of Kings showed the strongest revenue growth among the worldwide Top 10, increasing revenue 3.6% MoM.
• Gossip Harbor: Merge & Story became the fastest-growing game by downloads worldwide, increasing installs 11% MoM.

Tier-1 West 🇦🇺🇨🇦🇫🇷🇩🇪🇬🇧🇺🇸
• All Top 10 grossing games in Tier-1 West experienced mild revenue declines in April.
• Coin Master showed the strongest download growth in the region, increasing installs 8% MoM.

Tier-1 East 🇨🇳🇭🇰🇯🇵🇰🇷🇹🇼
• Delta Force increased revenue 41% MoM, most likely driven by a major content update and the Fiery Owl Hunt event.
• SD Gundam G Generation ETERNAL became one of the fastest-growing games of the month, increasing revenue 236% MoM, most likely due to its major 1st Anniversary event.
• Roco Kingdom: World (洛克王国：世界), officially launched in China on March 26, generated $33.6M in April alone, reaching the Top 10 grossing games in Tier-1 East and №28 worldwide.

Learn more about global and regional metrics of the top-performing games via the link: https://appmagic.rocks/top-charts/apps?aggregation=month&date=2026-04-01&tag=3&utm_source=AMFacebook

05/05/2026

See you at GDCy on May 29 🇨🇾

Our Head of Market Insights, Alina Zlotnik, will be speaking on mobile gaming LiveOps & monetization trends in 2026.

We took a sneak peek at the presentation she’s preparing, and you’ll definitely want to take notes 😉

Save the date, and let’s catch up if you’re coming too!

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