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It may not be wrong to say: if you’re launching a sports arcade/simulation game, breaking into UK top-grossing in soft launch might hold the key to gauge the game’s long term success and worldwide potential. Both Golf Clash and 8 Ball Pool rose up the top-grossing charts in the UK first in their early days. A handful of titles that have managed to hang on to top 30 – 50 grossing charts have done it on the back of factors ranging from streamlined UX to casualising the core experience (reducing the barrier to entry for casual or non-sports playing audiences) and the addition of meta and social loops with a strong emphasis on gacha based systems.Īnother notable mention is that the UK market (compared to the US) is a good testbed for finding success and fine-tuning the game early in the sports game category. This popularity club includes the likes of Golf Clash ( read deconstruct here), Mini Clip’s 8 Ball Pool, Madden Football, MLB Tap sports and Top Eleven Football Manager.Įven though the sports category has a lot of potentials and has had a fair amount of success in their yesteryears, it seems to be on a decline in the last 2 years. Sports simulation: These include games like Top Eleven football manager, FIFA Manager which focus more on the team management aspect rather than tactical gameplay and leans more towards strategy-based gameplay.Īs far as F2P sports games on mobile go, there are plenty of games on app stores but only a handful of these have found notable success and popularity on top-grossing charts Sports arcade: These include games like Golf Clash, 8 Ball Pool, MLB Tap Sports, all of which have core loop based on real-world sports game combined with other state of the art F2P social and meta loops resulting in a casual gameplay experience. In order to correctly categorize sports games, they can be divided into two categories, State of play: Sports arcade & simulation games a layered buffet treat approach that monetises well.īut before diving deep, let’s first look at the state of the sports games genre on the top-grossing charts. Game design and UX wise, 8 Ball Pool is a game of excesses – a melting pot of skill and chance based gratification that is apparent in every aspect of the game. 8 Ball pool has made up for the age gap and continues to be a dominant force in the sports arcade category. Whilst it did show signs of ageing and slowing down, losing ground to newly sprung sporting rivals like Golf Clash a year back, the relatively recent addition of new features has uplifted the core and meta loops of this iron horse. Launched way back in 2010 on mobile, 8 Ball pool has been a consistent performer on top-grossing charts in US and UK app stores. You can find the original version of this post here.
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by Om Tandon, Founder/Games Consultant at UX Revie wer.com.