Increase Your Chances of Success with CrazyLabs’ Trend Report
If you’re looking for game inspiration and valuable market insights, look no further than CrazyLabs’ trend report. This monthly report provides you with all the information you need to potentially release a successful game.
The trend report covers leading mechanics, subgenres, themes, and social media trends, all based on rigorous data and analysis. It also includes real-life examples to help you generate ideas and innovate around current trends. Following these trends can significantly increase your chances of achieving success in the gaming industry. Let’s dive into the key sections of CrazyLabs’ trend report.
Key Sections of CrazyLabs’ Trend Report
- Games tested with all publishers in a given month: This section analyzes the prototypes tested by all publishers in a given month, examining trending mechanics, themes, camera views, and more. The report not only showcases games in the top charts but also highlights prototypes per subgenre with a high likelihood of success.
In the chart below, you can see that the clicker subgenre is the most prototyped genre, but its representation in the top charts is low. On the other hand, runner games dominate the top charts, along with three other leading subgenres.
- Top chart trends: This section provides industry insights from CrazyLabs’ publishing experts. The chart above shows that runners are currently the dominant genre in the top charts, followed by Simulation. Studios have a good opportunity to leverage the Simulation subgenre, as the number of simulation prototypes is relatively low compared to runners.
The trend report also features examples of new games from the top charts, broken down by subgenre, providing valuable insights that can be utilized in your next prototypes.
- Social media analysis: This section highlights the leading social media trends, videos, hashtags, and tips gathered from platforms like TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram. These insights can help you gamify social trends. For example, CrazyLabs’ trend report revealed that drawing and coloring themes were trending, leading the studio to search for a coloring social media trend to gamify.
- Top chart games: This section features the top 20 chart hypercasual games in terms of worldwide rankings, as well as the new hypercasual US ranks. This information gives you a clear view of the new game’s starting scale and the games entering the top charts.
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