Soft launch Sonar #6: Is Capybara GO the next big hit from Habby?

man I me a tin foil H this is T for fun again yes this is that for fun again absolutely because of age of Apes age of Apes yes so dear listeners what you're seeing is pretty much an iteration of the creatives of last war survival and uh Mob control hope control yeah so they have this wow and uh it seems It's you know what is a Forex again [Music] this is a no gaming show where we talk about games and their revenue in great detail powered by our ad monetization game design and user acquisition Triple Threat expertise welcome to the two and a half Gamers the unfiltered truth served with a side of giggles

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interesting stuff yeah let's see let's see you have how much do we have we have 1 two 3 4 5 6 10 11 12 how what and your son is helping out right and your son is helping out yeah and my son's helping how it seems that's good yeah yeah yeah yeah that's that's exactly yeah yeah how would you know what are we going to do is um there's actually a pretty oh yeah let me let me just showed the game and you can guess the company okay perfect yeah and maybe you can move the mic a little bit closer to your mouth as well and that would be there we eat it you can eat it yeah you can just exactly oh my God that's a difference jeez that's such a difference yeah okay so not this thing because my emulator is going to die on me because I need to also do that things but whatever so let's start with the first you tell me what this is coming from and uh

what is the that's man so M knows already it's my games and this is merch Arena which was which we talked about before and uh and they said it's not their their game it's this is my games this is my games but it's called Castle duels I know it's Castle duels absolutely my games yeah where does this coming from where is this coming from the merch Arena no no no no where where the Core is coming from if you look at it oh uh Clash mini or what was it Clash Quest Clash quest Quest yeah that one and you merge merge these together on the bottom but here they were just like being thrown around in like linear fashion basically here there's the Rog light R light stuff on top of it yeah thank you I I definitely needed this and and uh yeah and then Fighters always help yeah

on top of it you seen that there was the Rog Light Element on top of it so they're still iterating very heavily looks very interesting but I'm always kind of a little bit skeptical to these like Clash mini likes so because it looks like Clash mini actually from like the second phase of the core yeah exactly so well what was the the merch Arena merch Arena yeah it's ludu Dell strategy okay so it's not like the VC in Turkey yeah yeah yeah but now it's like it's a little strategy RPG merch Arena which we talked about a long time ago and it looks exactly like this just like different um uh art style yeah so and that's that's Clash duels and it's been soft launched from June 27 yeah nice

you're going to like this one well hello Mr hex aort no way oh it's like oh nice this is this is in Empires and puzzles they small giant it small giant small giant it yeah and Dragons it yeah okay okay fair enough yeah fair enough yeah so for those listening what's happening you have the hexas sword gameplay but now it's actually powering uh fantasy RPG as as we used from Empires and puzzles and all these other like match three casual puzzle gameplay on the bottom and the combat visualization on the top basically so that's great that looks very interesting and my guess is because the core gameplay of heord works so well why Try differently if you you know you can stuff in puzzle gameplay from match three puzz like the ideas sound like I don't see a problem with it on paper everything looks good yeah on paper everything's good as

always and then you're then like yeah famous last words so this is from again my games and uh this is uh sof launch august 19 so and and by the way uh I think we saw the abilities there it's uh do I get it right or we didn't should be should be it should be a Rog like isn't it oh yeah where where is it maybe not here I don't think we saw the there chest system their chest system that's interesting didn't they take the chest system from like the previous games I don't know like like you see like there's so many iterations of so many different games here yeah um AKA genre mup yeah yeah yeah but I is it the wrong leg or or I missed that from some different game are we not selecting abilities between the the battles this is a soft launch right yeah this is a soft launch but okay it's not it's not uh Rog Glide it seem I I I why

do you think they haven't put rewarded ads on the game board such a yeah maybe this is actual game playay but yeah this is the point where like hexus really kind of you know iterates on monetization so we see but it's different game I mean like what would this help you yeah that's the thing like this yeah m is right the dynamic on the bottom is different it's not about you yeah losing music but you powering your abilities therefore it's just like you using it but but that's the same with Empires and PES it's not about like you running out of moves is you running out of Health actually exactly yeah so so that's there well placement or something else absolutely yes yeah yeah but we'll see like uh very happy that this like which like good on paper iteration is happening so people are risking it that's thing good on paper always doesn't always work Bounty buddies Bounty buddies oh hello project rice I don't know if

project from the looks of it it looks more like uh you know the top heroes thing that they took from the the the game the rumble something I forgot the name uh but yeah you could say like it's pretty much isometric uh Tod project dri it's absolutely my absolutely you're right it's basically Project D yeah you're right now that I look at it the second time yeah it's like yeah okay but even continue to next room yeah but but but when he gets to like some other room and it was I think like some kind of more yeah I know what I have now in my nose I have like it's more close to like Hades because you like two gates and you could make the choice but it's like part of the Rog Glide iteration so I guess it's uh yeah there we have the hero ni typical man I love I love the style I love the art style it's just exact it screams like hey cpis yeah we have low cpis even though we took super cell lach I mean that's that's the thing like yeah take see see see here was this see so

this is this is actually coming from Hades I think because in Hades you have these exact things where you finish the room and then you have two choices and you pick one which gives different bonuses and so on so forth so that's there uh someone is calling you on Facebook Messenger yeah of course that's they're calling Jr not me JR hello are you okay so going to the kindergarten yeah not today um with the firefighting yeah so seems like pretty easy there's like the heroes the Arenas stuff like that this is like a little bit reminiscent of um Heroes versus horse progression but uh yeah we'll see guess the company oh that's what I want to ask this is soft lunch on July 4th Bounty bodes by I have no idea what that is is it still my games yeah it's my games yeah no way I mean you think about it like my games apparently have this idea like look at Super sell what they do let's

copy it and let's get inspired these guys are smart like they're like you know don't rain when the wheel exactly the combination yeah yeah oh it's like it's brilliant yeah let's move on uh for this one next one I actually wasn't wasn't able to find the video because it's so recent this is soft launch September 23rd it's called cla's Chronicles solid air why it's like it's man it's vuga of course I know it's V I know it's I mean I was wasn't working on this but I I was talking to fery about this yeah and you know what it's I mean but Sol is the new thing that everybody is going after yeah and I want to say like I really wish you all luck because solit is like high cpis and we had this debate having this thing in soft lunch Sol talk the episode but like you never said what the cpis actually are in the

states like on average for solit games it's match free it's match free it's metch free level of cpis yeah exactly and sometimes even even higher and like and we talked about this like about like CPI estimations and I was like guys like you need to like double or triple the estimations oh no that's too high it's like okay so we got the like some information from from our other company like you're right I know I was right I I worked on this like before just like so if you go just like a little bit intermo this is how the solit revenue looks like where there solit Grand Harvest which makes like 17 mil I worked on this game before th Peaks then there's fish them Sol and all these let's say these are all I think the old ones like this is just like there's only one soli game which is Grand Harvest but there's a lot of people that are just trying to barge in currently from guys you tell me I mean it's it's the worst it's the worst combination this genre has already won and it's I mean we

can have discussion about like Royal match just killing everybody else we just talk about it it's it can be just the same thing but in here like the soli there is I mean for the engagement and retention profile I I I totally get so what I think is happening here is vuga is using its uh signature story based meta blah blah blah everything they just switch the code I know yeah now you kiss I I totally get it this is the main thing solit and and this is not even solit like you see this is some kind of like whatever mesh up here um just so it's level based but this thing in my opinion requires much less maintenance than Hidden Object oh yeah that's that's the thing because for those old enough to remember Garden Scapes was a hidden object game it was switching to match three because of that content threadmill that Hidden Object just produces and that's why we don't have many hidden object games yeah that's why we freaking demanding okay so Clash Chronicles soft Lun September 23rd by vuga yeah going a

little bit out of their comfort zone so wishing luck to those the thing is like it's not out of their comfort zone because it's it's Grand Harvest from PLA vuga and now deiss yeah that's important note which is the category leader is the owner of vuga exactly so I feel like that's why I say forgot that good that you said that yeah okay um next one the very very awaited one that everybody is looking for and everybody can stop thinking about the mother of hybrid casual is back with archero 2 and this was sof lunch June 13th and now you're asking hey aob why didn't we talk about this sooner why didn't we talk about the sooner yeah why didn't you talk what do we talk about it sooner because there's this game called Destiny's Arrow which was sofl June 13 which actually is this game so either hubby guys are kind of pulling some you know uh secret detectives here or trying to hide

actually stuff there soft launching or I don't know literally I I find is on player reddits of archero where people like oh this is all this is Destiny Arrow my guess is like because somebody was literally interpreting this as like oh because it didn't work with Destiny arrow that they're renaming it now to archero because of the brand like no guys I think they were just trying to be secretive so nobody would know yeah exactly yeah so we have pretty much archero to in U soft lch I just briefly went over like the videos haven't played because wasn't able to get the APK but the looks of it as as it looks here uh seems like there's signature features uh still there but new features are definitely in and by the looks of iteration on the second game which they have which I get to in a moment it seems they're like heavily iterating their own meta and pipeline making it even better so for instance there are these collect Talent cards collectible where there's literally a button that's called the gacha

H which means you get a randomized reward out of it which again merges together and yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah so they have new fancy stuff with their hubby pipeline like everybody still using their like version one or let's say the old one and they they really leveled it up in these two new games so yeah I can't wait how to get our hands on this uh so what really happened is this was soft lunch in June 13th as this year as Destiny arrow and now in September it got renamed to archero 2 back to its original form I would guess which I would guess is was the plan all along but yeah let's see it has gorgeous uh 3D environments as you have saw there within the where was it um yeah we're definitely doing review on this once I my hands on APK uh signature systems in it like yeah there you see and and you actually I think you even move over some kind of U like it was it was very reminiscent something like rash Royale

last time I saw it no not rash Royale sorry uh what was it the supercell cancelled game Rush something Rush Heroes no for The Rush no no before rush no this kind of yeah I know what you mean oh okay but they have this meta game where you would have like building a village or something so these me now but yeah here it is see so yeah at least I saw it in the previous iteration so I don't know maybe they'll change it but you see the menu here like it's our old friend pretty much getting uh upgrade like Leonardo would do one after 25 years so as usual so looking forward to this uh the second game that I'm going to talk about uh from these guys is actually not even in a video it's here because I'm playing it and it's freaking oh by the way actually it's actually going live today really yeah I told you

it's say 17th of um October October this is not the time you're listening to this that's true so yeah but this game is just amazing amazing they postpone it to 22nd of of October yeah so maybe you're still listening to this you're still listening yeah you're still listening so this is going to be the next hit game absolutely man Absol 100% like I don't know how the arch new Archer is polished but this game is just amazing I'm I'm like it has by the way this like just just get this you know where this is coming from yeah it's a um Social Casino Social Casino it's going yeah social Social Casino where you like because usually what they would do is like you would have the you know idle mechanic uh what it this idle mechanic where you could spend the like excess energy here you you can still watch the ads here but you cannot spend the excess energy here you spend it here in the travel portion of the game so this is coming from Social Casino and guess where uh this is coming

from it's a legend of mushroom exactly they took a lot of notes from like you know their different vectors are now coming not only from Hobby pipeline for also from Legend of mushroom or let's say where this is coming [Music] from wow all these 20 different lifetime cards way Legend of musroom go up go up for the add one no way I can't wait when we do like once we do a review of this game but yeah just to just to finish it so we can move on uh it plays pretty much very very casually uh again is this new trend in hybrid casual where there's like battle visualization on top player input on the bottom in this two- pH gaml this exactly my cup of Heroes game yeah yeah yeah so it's it's

gorgeous it's amazing there's like so many like so packed with features it's I think I would say like seven times or six times bigger when Survivor aisle launched because oo yeah literally no way Vector wise definitely yeah because they had like you seen like all those things that they had the bottom of different inventory vectors it's going to be from Global launch Survivor I had to add them like one by one throughout their lifetime I think it's not going to be as big as Survivor iio in terms of the the revenues and spent and everything because this is pretty way more C than survivor really you're just pressing one button man sure but still like the how how it looks like like it's downfold slow no no no it downfold slowly as usual I'm playing this for week but it's it's not like hey you play you just you have one one uh character and then you just kill enemies this like way more te and things to actually

understand you don't even need to read this this is just fluff still yeah you don't need to read this but you compare compare two things I'm very positive about this I mean I'm positive as well I I don't think it's going to be as huge as uh Survivor yeah yeah we'll we'll double we see we see we'll actually what we do we'll do a review on this like uh after the global lunch so we can see the shape of the fins shape of the fins are you going to be in helsink by then oh hopefully not hopefully there won't be F there will be mountains oh yeah absolutely stabilizing mountains stabiliz going to go we're going to go on a hike on a hike in those mountains definitely going to all the hike yeah so yeah this thing is just gorgeous uh yeah I can get enough of it everybody should play it because it's the new iteration of pipeline it's the new it's just better stronger bigger more robust everything this is the thing is this not

some advertising like going to just take shampoo from from the post lunch August 29 it's going to get big this month definitely but let's see how it goes okay moving on um yeah this is very interesting uh I don't know if you superhero League what is this yeah so there's this game go superhero League I was like is like what is it what is it by the way thanks to all the YouTu that that are like doing these uh yeah game plays uh so uh there's even this kind of a let's say Star Wars story trailer yeah and you can count on the superheroic where God this actually reminds me of the boys very very hard you'll see why but it's a super clever concept where each superhero is basically a different mini game and the whole game is just basically full of these puzzle based mini games so how it works let's say

let's start with our first superhero which is Mr bullet of course yeah and what it does he smashes things and that's it pretty much and that's it it's just like these like one level iterations where there's like you know these Ultra casual Ultra casual but but I see like this literally reminds me of homelander like every single time basically the this is going to have a shitload of ads like this is casual yeah sound is great uh like that animations and that screams are gorgeous uh for sure and you are pretty much like you know doing stuff here and like solving these situations and stuff like that blah blah blah and there's the comic and yeah yeah yeah blah blah blah more complex stuff and what happens is that you switch to a different game uh sorry different levels with different Heroes which changes the mechanics so now we are slicing people and slicing their heads off it seems and

we cannot hit the hostage so yeah I guess there we go so yeah wait a second I was I was really curious how you see like where this is going like you could see where this is going because it's literally it's tailor made for perfect creatives yeah it's tailor made for perfect Crea which won't be fake because this is actually the gaml yeah so every yeah every different hero is pretty much like doing these different things uh yeah like this one is a portal one like let's transport the explosive to the to the guy there we go stupid this is so funny I mean there's this like uh yeah the bullet guy which is literally the thing but but you see what what what they did there uh so who is this coming from what guess guess guess guess in the meantime what was the

Mr boys the hom games uh no superhero League 2 sof lunch August 30 by who by lion oh okay yeah and I I mean I kind of but I I saw there the you know the how is it called where the dancing guy who gets shoted all the time yeah storm shot yeah it's it's it's in it and it's like this is great concept because this is like pure UA focused game yeah anyway let's move on yes uh there's this game called cup of Ages which I wasn't able to find the game play because it's l on September 18 but it's again marketing Excellence because it's C hero with this like Through the Ages Runner Gates thing that's been trending which is this new game where you just the thing didn't stop and you just go through a new age I know yeah you start as a sperm and then

you evolve into n age and stuff like and there's scab Heroes on top of it what from CH this is this from China this sounds like it's from China this is a rolic this is me this is great I really want to play this game I mean yeah let's let's move a little bit faster because I still have lot L to show off uh burger simulator of course it was was supposed to happen so many people that had super like in when we're in Turkey I met three different companies that had an iteration man Supermarket manager yeah Supermarket yeah like yeah everybody so finally we have an iteration because instead of stocking shelf we are actually operating a McDonald pretty much but this is way more I mean it's it's hard no like it's it's harder than yeah of course it's hard you need to like you know like I would rather get the job and get paid for it yeah this is

going to do so well in Brazil I don't know why they love this stuff that's the company this is soft on September 27th is from Turkey no is it the the Polish guys digital Melody oh in that case it's actually the restaurant tycoons the ones that have the best restaurants oh it's superent yes nice yeah super sent went into it and amazing like guys are spot on Sharp as as as always wow love it nice love it we we'll check that out this will do so well this will do so well cuz they did the pizza one already exctly yeah exactly they have burger please pizza ready yeah exactly uh yeah this is interesting so there's this game called derailed survival adventure and uh guess the origal good cpis yes yeah we can very good CPS got local friends here mean uh yeah

guess guess where where this text Express type of game is it qual no no no no no no oh this is say games no no in that case Esty no it's is concept but it's by qual I I told you qual yeah yeah yeah yeah I didn't say anything because you immediately said same game so I had to say no no I said I said qual and you said nothing all right all right whatever this it's uh it's a little bit of like my little big adventure you see with this like land popping up but then then you have this like automatic like arcade Idol idle idle breaker basically idle this is Idle breaker yeah this is Idle breaker yeah yeah so they're using this like things from T Express I absolutely yeah yeah this is s September 12th at K's portfolio yeah sending guards to JN good luck with this seems interesting yeah let's let's iterate as much as possible moving on we have visario the and this is

even more because now we're getting to the rabbit hole portion of the S Jesus Christ wizario I remember that name where do I remember that from uh from the guy who didn't go the Harry Potter [Laughter] IP see the see the story that was pretty that was pretty good that was Lord prevails can anyone return the world back to adorable of course Mr visario absolutely yes so you're literally starting by the way we're starting from from first person and then it zooms out to third person and uh yeah guess what you get your want and you get to destroying magical stuff around the city and you need to survive in this world and upgrade the event with Mr I mean if this is not a then I'm this is a this a this is pretty much their fourth team change yeah yeah exactly the same thing it's the same thing it's just instead of

instead of the Hench or wrench or whatever is like you have WS you have like Potter from wish so works good good luck guys like I'm I'm like super happy that they're like doubling down on this and still doing different teams so they can scale it uh maybe this one will work who don't knows like man like idle breaker works really well yeah but this this is super Brave going after like Harry Potter uh like IP I mean I don't mean like from IP infringement because they're not infringing anything of course but like it's a great idea actually yeah yeah it's perfect idea like you know it's pretty much the Homeland I thing where yeah exactly Yeah Yeah by download probably like the sixth or fifth biggest company by downloads in the world right so this of course they have good ideas yeah yeah so yeah this looks great uh moving on another game that I wasn't able to find uh video because it's very recent so September 12th uh we have this gorgeous iteration on pretty much three or four things

together oh my God again the game pretty much made out of creatives and like the most trending hybrid casual puzzlers where how I would U um think so this would play out was that like you need to kind of load these cars because they're broken and T them off and and these lines cannot kind of go over the lines and then again you a little bit of Twisted tango little bit of yeah guess the Guess the I see the embracer but like who is like under that umbrella embracer September 12 is not embracer this is Kali Kali oh sorry sorry sorry crazy lops crazy L crazy crazy okay interesting this is crazy lops and now we go for the rabbit hole part oh no oh yes oh yes we always need to end with the Forex because it all returns to Forex yeah so

guess who fun plus nope we already did fun plus they they're not that fast to have something new every three months completely oh in that case I you know by the way what this IP is about no it's called water world survival Water World with Kevin Coster the shitty movie from the '90s that shitty movie from the '90s this is pretty good anyway so you're here on this like expanding raft in apocalyptic uh ocean because you know you're in a raft and then you know it slowly goes and goes and goes and usual thing happens it you know zooms out gets bigger and there we go we're on our favorite treadmill so guess the guys again this is soft launch September 9th oh well this is yeah there our balloon yeah Forex game is a Forex game no of

course it's a Forex game Guess the guys how would say centy but them no Cy t for fun then yes it's t for fun this is T for fun and I guess I've seen my guess is the guys are pretty much just building the on boardings to see which one works better because like everything's else the same so my guess is they're just like Ping resources into like these like first 20 30 minutes which is which works best yeah and then then just throwing it in let's see but yeah very good moving on we have monkey control hell yes oh yes man I me a tin foil this is T for fun again yes this is T for fun again absolutely because of age of Apes age of Apes yes so dear listeners what you're seeing is pretty much an iteration of the creatives of last war survival and uh mob control mob

control yeah so they have this wow and uh it seems It's you know what it's a Forex again of course it's a Forex again like I mean yeah yeah it's exactly what the world needs another Forex but why would no the world doesn't need another Forex the world needs another completely iterated iterated Forex which this is yes this ABS yes so this looks gorgeous jeez M this this brilliant I mean Stan heads off heads off we're just starting man no starting because the next game this is soft launch August 6 and the next game is called this was monkey control this is monkey Clash oo it was soft launch September 11th by you can already guess who St for fun again so you have the is uh I don't even know how to call it like to defense

whatever game play with uh I think those are um monkey zombies yeah monkey zombies absolutely there needs to be zombies like zombies are the best enemies yeah and if we move on a little bit uh into the progression as always um yeah we oh by the way man just look at this going about high production uh C he was in the previous game as well yeah yeah like it's this looks great and this is still all like CGI cinematics and stuff so very very high production quality no more those like slept on playable creatives and stuff this actually looks like a like a movie basically so it has World War Z Vibes definitely because yeah for sure zombie works and then it comes back to the same thing that we saw with monkey control so again different onboarding different like like Forex companies are literally just soft lunch testing the on boarding mini games and the cores are completely

like nobody cares about the core once you get to the core everybody knows what's yeah what's going to happen yeah what's going to happen yeah like is uh like trying to find the best possible combination of the cpis and the retention numbers yeah exactly brilant exactly so yeah the last thing I want to show from top for FR no more games on the sonar but just like out of curiosity I was looking at it and uh because you can see uh Dead games and the games that were pulled off actually and I was looking into it like very very interesting stuff would pop up so there was this like School simulator anime girl 3D that's girl for that that's a game for you hor no no no no no oh this real short absolutely I don't know what this is this is like AI stuff yeah and and by the way it's on the store on the gamespace studio School simulator anime it's a super super popular category there's like very big games in it by the way School simulat anime girl 3D and this looks like kind of a yeah

like somebody had too much prompt so that that was there this was uh taken out on uh February start of this year then there was this game called Kingdom war of course which uh I guess guys wanted to see how powerful is are there at the other side of the barricade yeah like look like let's take our snake and then see if if this works or not yeah so this was taken out on March 7th and uh the last one was top girl which is again some like I'm just like Amazed by the iteration on on the portfolio account with some AI whatever girl reing probably music game stuff or whatever that that lady looked exactly like one of our friends by the way so this was taken out April 24th and then probably another iteration water world survival already was taken out because I didn't perform and got killed

but yeah uh yeah heads down like Forex guys are iterating as as as as hard as it gets like this is like another level of soft lunch iteration pretty much yeah that's there so a little bit of like uh from the graveyard sonar let's say yeah anyways lots of interesting stuff happening I'm super stok for capy Bargo definitely ah me too I'm looking forward to see uh see how that uh that goes and should we should we wrap it up we should yeah man it was amazing thanks BR all the old fun stuff from I love I love this new camera angle where you can see how delightfully youve match your curtains with your furniture you need to say thanks to my wife not me but you can you can actually you can actually speak to the mic which is even better I know it's really yeah it's like it's a whole new world whole new world all right guys thank you very much for coming uh please uh keep subscribing

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