Strategies are the third highest—grossing genre in the American App Store. They account for 17% of the store’s revenue. Such success of the strategy is partly due to the novelties that bring the mechanics of casual games to the genre. This was told in a recent report by the analytical company GameRefinery.

MOBA is one of the most monetary subcategories of mobile strategies. According to Sensor Tower, for the first half of the year, the total revenue of such titles amounted to $ 2 billion. Among the most successful projects were Honor of Kings, Brawl Stars and Mobile Legends: Bang Bang.

A strategy game about the life of Timberborn beavers sold more than 130 thousand copies in the first week of sales and received 95% positive reviews on Steam.

App Annie together with the publication PocketGamer.biz I have prepared a small report on the mobile strategy market for the first quarter of 2021. Analysts told about the highest-grossing projects, and also noted that the total revenue of all games of the genre reached $ 2.5 billion.Star Trek Fleet Command

The third highest-grossing genre in the American App Store is strategy. They account for 13% of the revenue of the regional store. However, more than half of the revenue collected by iOS strategies in the States goes to China. The analytical company GameRefinery told about this in its latest report.

InnoGames‘ total revenue for 16 years of operation has reached $1.1 billion. The company’s management believes that the transition to mobile helped her the most in this.

At the end of December, the hardcore mobile strategy Navy Power: Warships from ONI Studio was released on the App Store as part of the softlonch. We talked with the producer of the project, Pyotr Prokhorenko, about the history of game development and about the features of the genre.

The new star of the American mobile sales chart is the hardcore strategy King of Avalon (FunPlus). The game has been ranked first in the US App Store box office chart since November 15.

There is an inverse relationship between the age of the player and the desire to play competitive games, – says the analytical company Quantic Foundry.

Beijing studio Substantial Games has announced the release date of the game The Ember Conflict.

The author of World of Goo, Ron Carmel, together with two other veterans of the game dev, is making a team strategy game for mobile devices. It is called Subterfuge and the main focus is on diplomacy.

The designer of Civilization II and Rise of Nations, Tim Train, in honor of the release of his new mobile game, shared his thoughts on the development of mobile strategies with the Usgamer resource.