Mob Control

It is now 35th.

Mob Control, Mystery Dumpling, Pizza Ready, Candy Crush, bits on them too in that article, which is headlined, August's top mobile game downloads, Roblox, Free Fire Max, Subway Surfers, Block Blast, Arrows, and more.

In the top grossing charts, according to AppMagic for August, We've got Honor of Kings, Gossip Harbor, PUBG, Royal Match, Roblox, and plenty of others.

I think, as I've called out in the strapline to this article, Gossip Harbor being the second top-grossing game in mobile is quite an achievement.

This strategy isn't even all that new.

Voodoo released Mob Control in 2021.

It began as a genuinely hyper-casual game with level-based progression and has since morphed into a full-fledged mid-core light experience.

We interviewed Miguel Santirso, GM of the Barcelona studio behind the hit two years ago.

Even from its early beginnings, Voodoo already had a long-term vision of what it wanted the game to be.

In his words, Voodoo wanted to, quote, make it fun for the long-term and to make it resilient, end quote.

And that, quote, mob control will be in two to three years next to the top mid-core games, end quote.

Fellow hypercasual publisher Saygames has a similar progression with Tower Wars, which was released in 2021 and has slowly evolved into a mid-core light experience.

... casual puzzle bet? Hasn't really worked out the way they hoped to.

Mob Control, remember that lasted for a little bit.

Yeah.

That was a really great attempt at-