Sensor Tower analysts have prepared the top 10 most downloaded hyper-casual games in October. It is still dominated by projects published by Belarusian companies.

The French publisher of hyper-casual games has launched a “daughter” on the territory of Ukraine. The new studio is based in Kharkiv and is built on the basis of the local h8games team.

Sim He, head of the publisher department at Mintegral, talks about how Voodoo monetizes its hyper-casual with the help of effective mobile advertising. App2Top.ru gives an excerpt from the Pocket Gamer material.

TabTale and its brand Crazy Labs are investing $500,000 in hyper-casual games from indie developers. The best of them will be selected as part of the Hyper Casual Summer Blitz initiative.

Hyper-casual games have appeared on the market not so long ago, but they are rapidly bypassing related casual games in many ways. The current metrics of these genres were compared by GameAnalytics specialist Ivan Bravo. And he also assessed how the indicators of hyper-casual correlate with the successes of more established mobile genres.

For the last two weeks, the top of the most downloaded hyper-casual games has been headed by the Russian game. The project is called Stack Ball and is published by Azur Games.

A new player has appeared on the market of hyper-casual projects. Gismart, a company that previously specialized in music applications, is launching a gaming direction. It will create simple and fast-to-produce games.

The analytical firm Apptopia has identified the most successful publishers in the hyper-casual market. To do this, she estimated the total downloads of hyper-casual games from October 2018 to March 2019.

Downloads of games by the French publisher Voodoo have exceeded 2 billion. This was announced by the director of Berlin Voodoo Alex Willink at the Quo Vadis 2019 conference.

Last year, the genre of hyper-casual games experienced its heyday. Omer Kaplan, co-founder of ironSource, told about what supported the growth of hyper-casual and whether it will continue.

Voodoo reported that the number of downloads of its games exceeded 1.5 billion. Half of them were generated in the last four months.