It is considered that the main source of inspiration for the Monument Valley series is paintings by Mauritz Escher. In fact, there are much more sources. Behind each level of the franchise’s games is a piece of art, a photo or even a music video.

Premium mobile games rarely achieve the same success as free—to-play titles, but the Monument Valley franchise of Ustwo studio is an exception to the rule. The revenues of the second part of the mobile puzzle in the first year after the release exceeded $10.4 million — twice as much as the first Monument Valley generated in the same period.

Monument Valley 2 topped the paid top in 47 regions, but did not even enter the Top 5 cash applications in any region.

The authors of Monument Valley shared their plans for the next year. The ustwo team will become bigger and part with the main artist.

Over the past year, the number of downloads of the paid Monument Valley adventure game from ustwo has increased 10 times.

Virtual reality is about to become available to a wide user: HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and PlayStation VR headset are due to launch in the next 8 months. Despite this, Peter Pashley, the technical director of the ustwo studio, is confident that the main way of developing virtual reality is mobile. He told about this in an interview with the VRFocus resource.

Ustwo Games studio, famous for the mobile adventure game Monument Valley, announced the release date and published a video of its second game – Land’s End.

The game Monument Valley appeared in the TV series “House of Cards” (House of Cards), after which its ratings soared up.

The authors of Monument Valley published an infographic in which they told how much they spent on the development of the game and how much they earned on it. There were some curious figures. 

On January 5, ustwo announced in its Twitter feed that most of the installations of the Monument Valley game were made illegally. 

Without five minutes, the festival premium project of the ustwo design studio has gained almost one and a half million installations in six months. 

The day of loud announcements continues. And thanks should be said to Samsung, which has made a lot of fuss for this, having gathered a whole galaxy of gaming celebrities around its Gear VR project, one of which, of course, is Ustwo, who created Monument Valley.