Softlaunch Sonar #8 - Exploring the Latest Game Releases & Innovations

this one is called shop and goblins soft lunch January 27th uh both the Throne of roses and voran for survival was soft lunch February 14 and 26 but shop and goblins is super unique because you go into a shop and you're the shopkeeper actually and people come to your shop and then you need to appraise their items I thought like oh didn't we saw this somewhere like match Factory is this like 3D match or something no so they took this kind of a physics based gameplay that looks like 3D match it's 4 a.m. and we're rolling the dice drops knowledge made of golden ice fix with ads making those coins rise jack up designs World chasing the sky with the two and a half Gamers the midnight crew talking UA ads and game design to mat feel sh bringing the inside we're rocking those vibes till the early daylight a master eyes on the price tracking data through the cyers space disg fix Stacks colors like a

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going to talk about new games that is true that we see in our sonar as per usual and Q sounds soft soft launch sonar yeah soft launch sonar that's on the table actually I even brought up uh a dead game into the mix so that's going to be a wild yeah you tell me which one of the games that I be talking about is already dead and uh yeah lots of interesting gameplay I think I yeah some sections were switched so we so we don't really um foreshadow that strong which game is which but I guess let's start and get to it because there's cover soft launch Sona is is quite good because usually with soft launches you need UA right yeah because there we go this is good because this episode is actually sponsored to you by pvx Partners non Equity dilutive UA funding all you have to do is go to pvx

dcom uh you plug into a bunch of stuff we actually did an episode with them and it was actually quite interesting to hear about how they actually yeah basically calculate if they can fund you or not but basically all you have to do is just plug in your data they have a look and then money in your account quite easily within two weeks uh so yeah pvx Partners thank you so much for sponsoring us not as good adre as MAA usually does but you know considering I've never launched a UA campaign I think it's quite good let's get back to this exciting episode let's go let's go there um okay so first gamees on the list uh this is actually a little bit of a cheat because um this is DC dark Legion from f plus but is this the fighter game uh nope this is a squad based RPG 4X oh yeah so uh this actually launch already today so I guess by the time

you're hearing us it's already few days after global launch uh because I had it like on on the soft launch list for quite some time but it was just like U pretty much went into Global launch anyway so we're just going to briefly talk about it so um I think this is like the first time that we see that like very heavily branded Forex enters the game if it's even Age of Empires come on uh Age of Empires is Age of Empires like let's let's leave it where it is for it to die uh but yeah this seems this seems quite interesting um so actually if you look into the game uh there's this where is it fallout shelter like kind of a view uh where the city panel or like the city uh is basically in Fallout Stell shelter like end farm similar to high hero as as we as we look there like I

guess it's the new layout of like better City because instead of like 3D you more isometric map you rather have like the end farm thing which is like this then so that's there uh yeah there's of course all the DC branded characters Batman Wonder Woman Green Arrow and like all these other guys I guess Joker yeah you know the drill uh so that's there uh on top of it it uh I think yeah there seems to be some kind of a m like mini map not even like the big map and there's the combat like which is like Squad based RPG uh nothing fancy to it this is basically FK Arena you see it it's like it's not even turnbas it's just real time automated combat so nothing again new to it but I think I had a better image somewhere here later in a different video yeah here where like one

of the YouTubers is explaining how World Map works because if you look at it this basically looks like the radar function like our famous balloon where at some point it kind of goes up and like now you have the world map you need to complete these quests which are easing you into the Forex gameplay on the big and marching armies map which I haven't saw yet so hopefully this works as I think it works otherwise yeah yeah the Forex part is a little bit doubtful but I guess it's probably Forex we'll see we'll definitely keep that in mind as we are very keen on like how the Forex genre evolves and there will be also lot of forex's today on the menu but uh yeah many Forex going into the market right now hm why is there so many forex's going into the market because everybody sees the giant numbers that last war and um white out Survivor is pulling I would guess so but you know I

don't think so this honestly like it's a nice attempt but I don't think so this stands a chance because you know what we're missing here you know what's missing no our favorite fake onboarding mini game ah right but you haven't shown it in the game play yet so I don't know that's the three card that that instead of fake onboarding Min game and fake creatives they will have the DCI IP the question if it's strong enough which I highly doubt probably not my guess is this is joining Age of Empire's mobile but whatever look yeah and this was soft L September 20th 2024 just saying okay not a long soft launch then it not that much yeah pretty pretty short one okay this is an interesting one I like it yeah yeah yeah simple uh guess who this this

this game is called Boldt stack I came no Falcon one more tip uh Voodoo h ah H this was launched on February 3rd and it uses an iteration of the stacking or sorting probably game playay of nut sword actually from triple do if you remember yeah looks exactly like it yeah yeah but there's an iteration because if you look here uh this is more close to those like water puzzle games where you have like the liquids kind of running over and stuff like that uh swords colorwood swords yeah like all these other on even even like magic sword but this if you look at it there's a big difference there because there's always the pretty much the goal objectives that you need to fulfill because in the like the let's

say base sorting games you just need to like put the colors in order here you need to put the colors on top and then they disappear like in hexa Sword yeah so there's a little bit of a Twist there it's not really nut sword kind of a one to1 clone there's an iteration so that that's interesting and my guess is and this is a wild guess again because all in hle is currently scaling so much okay so what I wanted to say here is that what I think will happen probably because H is already scaling all in all in Crazy scale like 300K in i a day that probably guys n will be also aiming for a heavy I driven Puzzler with this not an ad-based game so that's my guess here but again we'll see but nonetheless it's an interesting iteration not just like one to one copy yeah okay continuing forward so this game I wasn't able to find uh

game play just the trailer but I think trailer is enough and what do we have here so I saw metacore and its match but is it the upgraded match which basically this is not match this is merch oh merch sorry merch yeah so they had previously they had the other soft lunch game called merch Plaza m which we covered before uh this is called sugar works merch Joy literally looks like uh can de Crush IP from wish can help it really would it a bit of Royal match meta yeah yeah so the difference again just by looking at this screen you can see that it seems It's a level based merge or I I would think so don't don't know or some kind of like progression of the board and then there's yeah Royal kind of

Kingdom not even renovating just building kind of a visual meta but yeah let's see I think uh metacore is currently searching very hard for like their next hit game because they they're having like lots of games in soft lunch there's the grand soliter thing there's the merch Plaza thing now there's this I would guess that they're probably also cooking something else I guess guys from supercell or or maybe they're trying to be like Supercell going to push push for more iteration on new games to kind of go there because merch Manion isn't definitely in a great spot because it's getting completely attacked by micr fund Chinese guys who took over merch category why why was it against they to managed to take over the merge category it's just as pure manow and uh pretty much newer and better version of the original games on the market like lav and Pi got literally steamrolled over by I don't know I don't remember if it's

gossip Harbor or Seaside or or the other one yeah I think Seaside Escape is the travel Town copy and gossip Harbor is the the LA and P one but yeah basically they took the original and make it better and took them over in the chart so let's see gaming is brutal yeah gaming is very brutal in this like especially if you're competing with Chinese teams that's how it is okay um yeah this will be interesting so as we know yeah AI is here AI Wu AI this is not AI Wu yeah there's vus there but basically What's Happening Here uh that there is this game called Throne of roses and uh you can guess the developer of this I can't it's Army and wuss I have no idea it's for fun again uh the guys

behind top girl obviously of course this seems just the like real 4ex version of top girl where we have our a bit more hardcore yeah yeah like basically hardcore probably less streamline more and Forex we have our usual kind of trick with Forex can we build a tank armor why would she ask that so we we have these AI animated characters you can see this already that that this is done by AI and and stuff uh then somewhere here later there comes the usual trick where our character narrator gets captured give up the city or she's dead that's all that was written on the photo I regret that I didn't hold her back that so it's the usual thing that the narrated character ends up on a bump or whatever like put him as dangerous situation and then it goes into the usual thing where another character steps in and you just build the town and roll over and blah blah blah blah blah I

think like fifth or seventh minute there's the Forex map already yeah here we are and yeah that's that's our usual thing the ker here is that this is actually kiss of War because if I look at this this is kiss of War which is basically the same intro cinematic and then instead of our AI girl we have 3D girls that are there and the YouTube video I'm showing you is four years old no way yes so that looks like redler 2 which is 20 years old yeah that's different thing but what's Happening Here Again is the signature tip for fun move where you took your original game and what you change there is just the onboarding in order to lower CPI so now they're putting the top girl kind of a skeleton on on top of it basically because isn't that quite a clever way of game making though of course because like you know know the only thing that matters in

Forex is CPI and they are masters of Forex gam playay and like the you know product part anyway so the only thing that matters to them is just lower the CPI that's what they do uh to top it off here is the other game that they have because top for always have two forex's within very similar on boardings there's war hun survival where it literally start with you killing animals which that's good hook yeah yeah yeah then then the girl kind of tells you something uh then she goes into killing a deer uh where she misses and I guess our narrator misses there he killed the deer then then goes the Cinematic as it was there and then we go into killing Scarlet Johansson wait why because IP infringement and we don't care so so yeah uh this is quite literally very

interesting and it's exactly the same kind of onboarding except this part but like once this part goes off like we're back to city building the usual thing the same game yeah yeah yeah exactly but like again without the you know the part where you're shooting arrows at Black Widow so yeah it goes on as usual our character gets captured somewhere here I think somewhere here yeah new character comes in and I think she's like the bad girl yeah there there she is give up the c or she's dead as usual that looks exactly like the person who was in that James Bond movie I can't remember yeah so again another character steps in and help us and like cycle pretty much continues so again every single month or every single quarter I'm doing this and and by the way now we're now we're killing Assassin's Creed character with the

tomahawk so every single quarter when I'm looking at their account they're doing this Forex on morning nonsense it's just so funny uh yeah but to top it off they have one uh other game which is actually unique and I'm super curious how this one will go this one is called shop and goblins softland January 27th uh both the Throne of roses and voran for survival was soft lunch February 14 and 26 but shop and goblins is super unique because you go into a shop and you're the shopkeeper actually and people come to your shop and then you need to appraise their items I thought like oh didn't we saw this somewhere like match Factory is this like 3D match or something no so they took this kind of a physics based gameplay that looks like 3D match but then you are literally going piece by by piece equipment on the like in the mess

basically in in the chest it tells you like how much and it's like I think there's there's the show on Discovery like uh you know the best I can do meme is from pound shop something or whatever yeah so I guess this is it basically because then the guy says like oh let's give you a fair price like 100,000 and like you say like oh 20,000 and like he goes 60,000 and you go then 5,000 and he's like okay I'll sell you sell you for 400 or something like that so like junk junkyard heroes or like one of these like auction shows take your pick of whatever it is exactly it's like one of these auction I always forgot the name but yeah so many of them yeah so this is the core Loop where like some people come in and you then you then s sell the thing and you see here on the on the top that like you have made your profit because you give him the price and then like on top of it you you pretty much go there and in the

meantime as you go you there some rocks and a gold nugget and then yeah you upgrade your guy you upgrade your armor you upgrade blah blah blah a lot of things usual it's basically about earning money yeah it's about earning money but the thing that that kind of distracted me and because this is up for fun was when I got here to this point where you can clearly see the UI there on the bottom where the UI says uh Alliance I think it's a Forex as well yeah so that's also my idea that that probably this will end up being a Forex also that's that's my wild guess but I don't see the world button but maybe it will be somewhere there but yeah we'll see we'll see if this goes somewhere but it's super unique definitely it's super unique very interesting and as I said I've never seen this kind of a game play before so let's see

I said this was soft L January 27th okay uh now for something more conventional oh here we go uh Family Farm match guess is that with a handang grenade yes this before but like how is that okay it's a hand grenade match three colorful hand grenade I mean it looks really good instead of a bomb yeah okay Family Farm W with hand grenades why I who could even make hand grenade Family Farm match with a hand grenade why is a family with a hand grenade gu the developer I don't know Peak I don't know no Grand no Century games oh it's again honestly

as soon as you said Century of course they would put hand grenades in with something called family yeah of course they really want to break into the match three category course it's one of their latest attempts and I don't know which one is this like seventh or eth one anyway sending gards to Heaven uh this one is uh super polished as usual like it's literally plays like Royal match uh I can't really speak for does it have the meta the say meta yeah that that's that's the kicker here that story I so actually let me go here and it's U not renovation of that castle thing but you are basically building some Farm stuff so if if you finish the level you see you get these things and and then you build a house or whatever or something and like R over see it's it's basically Royal Kingdom Royal Kingdom is this system also like it's kind of very simple like yeah this

is basically Royal Kingdom uh it's not renovation it's just Building without the like broken you know desolated part whatever but if if we uh scroll forward this is basically how the game basically looks on level 48 which is Royal match because you see they already have the events here on the left side they have the battle pass they have the reward pass they have this is propably an offer seems that they have everything already so looks very good how do you think this will do hm how do you think this will do um the kicker I was kind of trying to look for is do they have these you know Save the King levels I wasn't able to find them because there's not a video of a level that's like um think that's a difference the thing that makes a real difference the creatives they're already using the creatives of Royal match like you know the concept of saving the King near dead situation blah blah blah so that's that's definitely needed anyway

but my my question is if if they put something into the core like Royal match did like every 10 level is this or that or whatever something something so that's that's that's what I'm really curious if if they will have this kind of Advantage because otherwise I don't know and it's just like going against Royal match now that they release Royal Kingdom it's just like you're going against two of those now so kind of a very it will be very CPI Bonanza yeah CPI Bonanza uphill battle definitely but you know if there's anyone that can correct it for sure like uh I mean they have a budget right Chinese company with giant budget definitely they they they they're within the means to to do it definitely okay moving on Bold game ah are we going to cover this on an episode stand alone episode uh probably until we get an alpha invite but it seems that didn't uh didn't our correspondent in Tahiti have one of

these I think so maybe don't know but it seems that the alpha is kind of a ongoing it's not like the usual three-day weekend test because it's full of YouTube currently uh through like influencers and like the usual kind of super influencer Army so just wanted to mention it because this was basically announce announced last month so they're finally doing a normal soft launch no no no it's not normal it's invite only it's invite only not like the usual countries are unlocked blah blah blah so what I just wanted to briefly cover is that what this is and what it seems uh that is and yeah what do we think so to me it looks like sea of theves a little bit sea of theves is this very very popular PC Pirate game uh from uh Microsoft that's basically like a more complex version of this where you go on Islands you fight enemies you pick up treasure and then you go on boats you fight enemies to get on Islands to pick

up treasure like here imagine if Ubisoft would have thought like this like with that like color oh it would been so good yeah so as you see here you cont you have either land combat or sea combat you can even swim so go around the place uh what you need to do is you go on some one of these islands where search area for dick spot where you literally need to find like the x marks the spot is here then you dig out the treasure and then you bring the treasure chest into your boat and then once you do it uh you sail off into the Horizon as done here which is the goal objective leave the map and then you get the treasure in your kind of a hideout cave or something like that if I understand correctly like this is basically the main menu uh it's like something is it PVP or is it PV PVE PVP both oh okay both actually so uh yeah seems very

interesting uh reminds me a lot actually uh close that this is close to the Moco game if you remember the RPG where again you have the central hub from which you go on missions taking loot blah blah blah the VCR store no no no VCR store is different anyway no bear yet uh yeah there's uh double inventory one for the gear here for the land combat one for the bat for the sea combat and there's brain and brain is basically a skill tree I don't I don't know if the video oh yeah here it is so there's like massive massive shitload of SK massive massive skill three similar to something like R of Exile I guess the not green points are the ones that are just St holders and then the other ones are the ones with uh special abilities for instance here you can see the combat of a player so he

literally he switched into like PVP mode because suddenly he became red uh there's like a alert Betty nearby and then the guy gets killed I guess uh because he didn't uh yeah didn't catch catch catch this uh but yeah it seems that it's both PVP PVE it's not Battle Royale as I thought it's a little bit different but let's see it seems super interesting but also it seems super core because there's so many abilities and so many things and they're still on two joysticks basically so yeah how much do you think a game like this cost before they put it in Alpha a lot to make a lot right a lot cuz it looks really good already yeah it looks really good it's like fully 3d full like everything's new art you know I don't know depends on like as I told did you play this or are we not the

target audience oh I I would be definitely the target audience like for sure for sure like it's it's RPG RPG based looter basically so I'm definitely target audience but what I meant to say that because supercell acquired Rift Labs oh sorry Phantom Labs the the the studio that makes the rift Rift rifters game which is again similar to Moco which and and and this is like the third or fourth game which is kind of this kind of RPG light style thing so my guess is that there's a little bit of reuse of technology so it's not that that expensive that's starting from the ground because I think they're just literally following a direction that they want to was that gun called a problem solver the RPG yeah problem that's great see The Negotiator oh I love it double barrel shotgun oh I love it so yeah uh it's the usual quirky humor of supercell so I guess that that that's but yeah we'll

definitely once we get our hands on this or Mr TTI guy returns we'll get a full review on this for sure it looks quite good man like yeah I really like the artwork like well I say that with every Super C game like you cannot not like it yeah of course it's just like like flood rush I still like I still think that artwork was the prettiest so sad they Ked FL was so good I also missed that to be honest I would rather FL I don't wonder why they killed it uh probably too similar to Squad Busters I would guess but yeah let's see squadb is still not dead ah squ is definitely not dead but it's not scaling up or even even kind of keeping up okay moving on uh grow a monster grow a monster so where do we seen this do you see the game oh it's Alien Invasion ah there you go somebody's p took me a while it took me a while I was like I've never seen this but I'm like

oh yeah yeah yeah that's great uh yeah so there's this game called grow Monster uh this is actually from Studio hype hype which is the former frog mine guys they had their ugc engine on which is hype hype literally and it seems they finally released a game of their own which seems to be this kind of a first sl3d person Alien Invasion if I understand correctly looks like it's built in their ugc engine because last time as I was looking at it the art and everything looks like it so is this Mass marketable though yeah that's the question ah I don't know this was La soft launch February 22nd uh and yeah um I'm kind of uh let's say the because the ugc content in the hyp it always looks like it has this prototype is like

production budget quality and this is definitely within that same like uh ballpark so I guess it will looks like this always but I don't know I don't know I don't see any difficulty here though that's the thing right uh there alien invasion gets really hard uh later of course later it gets really hard but like yeah my guess is that this seems more of like advertisement for the ugc tool yeah that like it's possible to create games within it that would be my guess not really like we're aiming to make this into a sustainable business as a game but yeah let's see oh oh that's my guess because I don't think so this is going anywhere um okay moving on um Cube Masters so guess what is this peak nope then I don't know who it's Turkish but it's not Peak yeah it's Turkish but

yeah looks like a Turkish Puzzler you see already but you know about you can see you can see the Scandinavian artwork like you know if you're seeing a roio game or supercell game likewise you can see if the Turks are making it work you know just like you can see it's a Vietnamese game and so many intertial LS yeah so this this is called Cube Masters this is what soft lunch Fe February 7th and uh as you can already see it's an iteration on single player level based version of block blast uh and Studio behind this is Spike games oh yeah so I guess Reena is at it again sending regards uh I think this is quite interesting because if I understood correctly after their first failed game the casino one Spy game games they hop on like a lot of games that were

currently trending during that period which went I I think pretty well with d basts but didn't sustain then there was uh some some other game basically or like there was the match game that I guess also didn't make it now they're jumping on the Block blast Str which by the way a lot of people are jumping and I'm already working with like one client that is already doing like this I mean the is like when you're about to overtake the most successful game in Mobile history in terms of active user base that's something people take notice of like they are maybe I was looking at the numbers today they are maybe two or three weeks out of uh taking over like yeah Subway Surfers yeah yeah so blog blast is definitely making ways and you can see it even here like this game play is now being kind of thrown around a lot and just because of the image and I guess we'll get to it once more uh where

we can already see our usual Royal match meta or magic sword or however but yeah the icons basically in the bottom uh tells you way this one on the right is collective bbum so it seems that just using gr match meta with the block bust level based score game playay so that's there it's a good proposition like if you can make it and be fast enough you can still do it but uh yeah we'll see it will be a tough fight I'll definitely have some more on this later later in this episode okay moving on uh match details Harry Potter uh seems Harry Potter from wish so uh this is again as you can say uh is what man I was just going to say man this is exactly what the world needs another match three game another copy of Royal match yeah exactly

yeah yeah so it has this very unique Harry Potter Lish IP which is not Harry Potter bit of Spyro there did you see Spyro up in the corner yeah yeah he holds a dragon egg so yeah dragon egg which is yeah so I guess there are dragons or something there no hand grenades who is this in the cor gu I I don't operate in this space they they always advertise how they don't have ads so I usually don't get hired okay this is my games oh okay this was soft lunch February 12 and uh again seems your typical kind of Royal match follow up with this Harry potterish wipe I wasn't able to see what's the like in between meta because it seems that there's just like the image gets Fuller or something like that yeah the image gets un

unhidden or like populated because yeah you see there's less stuff in it yeah yeah yeah that's the usual it's like the low coost version of something you just saw that uh Century games use on their family grenade farm so yeah yeah it's just little bit of less production budget version of Royal match stuff but yeah to be honest I don't really think this is a good strategy now like it's too late yeah I I think it's too late and you don't have like a strong enough USB to even differentiate between all the Clones so yeah that's there okay it's tough huh because it takes time to build it and it's yeah it's super tough it's super tough and you know keep in mind that all these things that you build is still like not even the main thing the main thing is the level design and the difficulty adjustment and being able to like Tinker with the levels and and all these funnels and so many kpis like yeah is night basically the the kind of theme

so far is match three and Forex we'll get there we'll get there just just just just wait a second okay uh moving on XP hero so guess say games uh it looks like say games why because of the yeah the mechanic like my perfect Hotel insert all the other games I made the other game yeah I can't remember the first one what the name is right now dream Dale yeah yeah so this is actually uh seems to be a combination of something like dream Dale which is the arcade Idol and then Alien Invasion why Alien Invasion because the guy has a cargo capacity as you see there and as he goes around and like collects stuff and then upgrades his inventory and stuff like that this is basically taken from Alien Invasion so it's a little bit

of Bolt where you are you know killing monsters and getting your cargo full which you need to then see bring back to your base this is the Alien Invasion mechanic but it's all done within the dream Dale kind of we building our base and doing stuff around it kind of a building stuff and economy I think somewhere here later yeah you see he gets like rocks now uh now we have the wood thing and like all these other kind of resources and stuff like that so it's like a mix of Alien Invasion and rinda which is great so who does this game who's doing this game uh it's actually done by super sent our friends from Korea didn't see that coming yeah and you see the difference between the Alien Invasion uh iteration that we just saw with grow monster from hype hype yeah so the production quality is here is just like yeah it's just giant but this looks

really good yeah this looks really good like like from and it's new I think this is going to do really well like Thor's hammer hanging there like yeah yeah like um the best games are yet to come on this episode let me just say that but this is like is the best one so far I think this is this is very good like I think the idea and the combination is very good because Alien Invasion steel wasn't utiliz the core wasn't utilized that much there just had an invasion and like few follow-ups but not like like significantly big game Dream de itself uh was a great game but it wasn't able to sustain it and I think adding Alien Invasion progression on top of it could help it a lot because dream Dale I think suffered mostly on the thing that economy just get too complex and like too kind of you know need to do this do that here you have like the merge G I think and yeah this is just I don't see any ads though which is very unlike super sense yeah I would guess that this is something that they trying to drive more towards like 50/50 but there would

definitely be ads here the game's designed to can take on ads it's just matter of time probably but yeah I'm super interesting on this one we go I'm really liking it already just just by like so much about it there's some there's something about it yeah and the art still is great so yeah well let's see okay moving on um hero Rogue like RPG this looks so boring this is not so boring man this is amazing actually uh am sure but like no nothing to like it's just sewn up my target audience I'm not the target audience so we were actually shown this game in Soul this is from 11 100% And this is a game that is Monopoly go like

RPG ah yeah remember that so it has the similar it's actually very close to something like capy barago because the difference between this and capy barago capy barago the character just going forward and there's like random rolls in between here it doesn't go forward it goes on the Monopoly board and there are random rolls where he can ends up here and on top of it there's the you know R Glide character getting stronger selecting skill stuff like that I think the problem for this game is the art style because it's this very heavy Niche like you said like not my cap of te immediately even though progression wise and probably systems wise it's quite close to the XP hero that I just showed you but the art style there was just much more attractive to you so yeah I guess this could be a problem problem but if this is more aimed towards kind of Korea Asia maybe it's not because

these guys really like European dark dark fantasy team which is basically this so we'll see but seems very interesting and I guess it's one of the predictions that's coming to right which I said that more and more games you'll be using this Monopoly like random kind of system visualization to kind of move forward because it's just people like Randomness and it's it's lining the game very easily because you don't need to choose like it's being chosen for you by the difficulty oh sorry by the chance chance based system so that's there this was soft lunch February 20th and again it's called hero Rog like RPG uh for those who don't know by the way superent is a subsidiary of 11 100% so supercent is yes those two companies are tied together like supercent is the heavy ad based and 11 100% you know all the lucky defenses and Tower based Tower

Defense games highy IP ones yep you know what I was going to say I didn't know that but now I just remembered I did know that but I didn't remember it I think you even read that yeah yeah anyway uh this is actually the top game that I'm looking for this is in soft launch now you sure about that yes this is actually Global launched Asia launched M it's already making something like uh 70 to 80k a day uh it's that usual kind of we first Global launch in Asia uh and then we I grow out to the rest of the world we played this at China Joy last year you remember that we were shown this yeah because this is like one of those most popular WeChat games we actually had this in last uh quarter sonar but it was still not translated into into English now it's translated into English I don't know what's happening because s

or dat AI I don't remember which one keeps saying that this was released October 26 but my guess is this was just done in February because I would just know about it I was I was literally at joinet account and it it wasn't there in this English translation but yeah here we are we finally will be able to play this game and I'm really looking forward to it for those who don't know this is a one of the top games in China regarding which platform uh even regarding normal kind of mobile platforms it's a arcade idle Forex RPG basically and it's Making Waves pretty much I don't think so it will be probably that uh successful in the west but I guess it will capture it audience anyway but it's super successful in China definitely and the name is go go Sam I don't know how they end it up they'll probably end up changing the name I think think for the Western audience now maybe this is the Western

audience name already this is how it how it's named I don't know like the Google translate uh put there last time I was translating the Chinese name fingertip Warriors which I got told that it's kind of pretty accurate but I don't know like I'm I'm really looking forward to kind of play this because this literally like like like the game you saw dream one with like the arcade I like there we go like so nice and then somewhere here late there I don't know if you have the image here uh there's the usual Forex map and it goes into heavy heavy Forex so that is there but yeah this looks absolutely amazing and can wait once we able to play that and do a review it okay um last game on the list this an Angry Birds block blast Angry Birds block Quest which is an Angry Birds block game so uh

yeah as as you expect uh Angry Birds will the IP be helpful here I think they use their IP everywhere like ketchup yeah like it's all over the place uh this game is actually dead or it was taken down from the store so I just put it here as some kind of a uh wild card card because I wanted to show that there are many companies going after the block blast BL blast Hungry Games core gam playay because everybody see how profitable it is and how how big it is this game actually by the way once you see this this is a little bit of controversy but this game actually uh I don't know if it's specifically this one probably also this one this game got criticized because it uses AI art what why why criticized because Gamers hate AI art

wait criticized like what like a review no on the internet and I think also review wise then like review bombed basically it is not real like if you get critique there it's like a river Cry Me a River yeah I know I'm just saying it's like a nice tid bit uh but but still the thing is that it's basically single player based version of block blast which I guess didn't uh make it or they took it down and maybe they'll do another kind of version of it I don't know as set I like that mechanic with firing on the Angry Bird on top of the board that actually quite fun yeah yeah yeah like uh I guess there's some iteration in it like didn't really went too too too deep into it what I wanted to mention here is that pretty much just by surface level look you can see multiple companies going after this core gam playay in a single player fashion so and and we of course already saw that there's voku Blast from triple dot which

is kind of the legy game trying to get get its ground back but yeah there seems to be some kind of different mechanic here with shooting the birds it's not that uh the usual kind of block blasty thing but yeah let's see I wonder if they can bring it back or or not but yep that was that anyway uh that was it it's hard competing against like like 200 data scientist [ __ ] just doing levels making it easier and harder based on your user input like it's just yeah uh that was it lot of interesting games I'm definitely picking up later the go go Samco the jointed games arcade idle Forex and the XP hero we definitely kind of keep that one up and yeah lots of I guess interesting games that could be kind of either prominent games or prominent failures

we'll see man well done man that was really good there's a couple on there I'm really going to look forward to play Bim looks quite good our friends is suent also probably will make a boatload of money on that game it looked really good thank you for putting that together um y for those of you joining us and who are right now in Tahiti uh maer is in sanan Francisco so if you're in Tahiti you're [ __ ] out of luck because he's at GDC and if you're at GDC we are hosting some events uh don't know what but it is something you can take part in I think there's one on Monday or Tuesday but I guess when listening to this is already over it's already over so don't worry about it we had a great event and thank you so much for listening this is the world's biggest podcast for go mobile game makers and game lovers and we enjoyed having you on the podcast and

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