The company SayGames has decided to support mobile studios that are developing hybrid-casual games. It plans to invest $30 million into these teams over the next three years.

The mobile publisher SayGames seems to have finally decided to close its Belarusian division. The company has initiated the liquidation process of its regional legal entity LLC “Kazhyhulni”.

Mobile publisher SayGames is changing its business strategy. The company will stop working with hyper-casual games and focus on publishing hybrid-casual projects.

The publisher of mobile games SayGames shared the successes over the past year. From January to December 2022, one billion downloads of the company’s games were made. As for its revenue from IAP, it reached $37.5 million.

A clone of the indie puzzle Unpacking got into the tops of the most downloaded games on iOS and Android. Some even accepted the Unpacking Master project from the Belarusian SayGames as the official mobile version of the original game. We talked to the publisher about the project, cloning and removing the game from the stores.

AppMagic analysts told which hyper-casual games were the most popular in the fourth quarter of 2021. At the top of the list is the race simulator Race Master 3D, published by the Belarusian SayGames.

The publisher of hyper-casual games SayGames has achieved 2 billion downloads in 2 years of operation, releasing 47 games. At the same time, he works with developers according to a scheme that is not the most standard for a niche. Instead of focusing on CTR, the publisher is looking for strong teams.

There is one more support program for indie developers. Publisher SayGames has allocated $10 million for the publication of hyper-casual games as part of a special SayHero project.

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.

Last week, Sensor Tower published the top 10 most downloaded hyper-casual games in the world in September. A third of the list is published by Belarusian teams.

Hyper-casual games from CIS teams are increasingly appearing in the world tops. According to the App Annie index, in June there were three such projects in the top ten most downloaded games from Google Play*.