Lily's Garden
GameBy Tactile Entertainment · Released Feb 4, 2019
Get your hands dirty in Lily’s Garden, our new FREE puzzle game! Help Lily restore her great-aunt’s garden to its former glory and rediscover her roots. Dig into a story full of twists and turns as Lily interacts with a cast of colorful characters.
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About the game
- Released
- Feb 4, 2019
- Developer
- Tactile Entertainment
- Genres
- Arcade
- Platforms
- Android, iOS
- Links
- Official site
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Documents about Lily's Garden
🕳️ Suck It Up: Tactile's new hole game just ate Lily's Garden
Tactile Games is successfully scaling its latest title, Suck It Up, which has reached approximately $30,000 in daily in-app purchase revenue within three months of its soft launch.
- Tactile Games' new title, Suck It Up, has reached approximately $30,000 in daily in-app purchase revenue within three months of its soft launch.
- Suck It Up is positioned to potentially outperform the lifetime revenue of Tactile's previous flagship title, Lily's Garden, by focusing on long-term retention through collectible albums and a Zen Garden mode.
- Mobile developers are shifting away from Facebook toward more agile, automated advertising networks like AppLovin, Mintegral, and Unity due to declining performance and support on traditional platforms.
🚨Tactile & Loomit: How Top Games Make Money From Ads
Modern mobile game monetization requires a sophisticated balance between maximizing ad revenue and protecting the integrity of in-app purchase ecosystems.
- Developers should shift from static monetization models to hyper-segmented strategies that use geography, platform, and spending history to ensure ad revenue is incremental rather than cannibalizing in-app purchases.
- To protect long-term retention, studios must curate ad quality by requesting conservative creative formats, monitoring ad duration, and actively swapping formats to prevent aggressive ads from degrading the user experience.
- Studios should prioritize a 'buy-over-build' strategy for ad infrastructure, leveraging specialized external tools to manage complex auction dynamics rather than maintaining internal systems.
Analyst Bulletin: Mobile Game Market Review February 2026
February 2026 in mobile games was marked by genre experimentation, evolving LiveOps formats, and a high-profile IP launch, according to GameRefinery's monthly analyst bulletin, which draws on its live events tracking and chart data, largely from the US iOS store.
- The mobile market is shifting toward hybrid-genre titles that blend casual, tycoon, and social mechanics into midcore and strategy games to improve retention and monetization.
- Titles like Sunday City: Life Simulator have successfully utilized hybrid mechanics, specifically combining casino-style gameplay with tycoon elements, to reach the top 200 grossing charts.
- High-profile releases like Rainbow Six Mobile are achieving high download volumes on US iOS but struggling to convert initial interest into sustained revenue due to UI complexity and tactical depth.
Analyst Bulletin: Mobile Game Market Review December 2024
This analyst bulletin provides a comprehensive review of significant updates and trends in the mobile game market during December 2024, focusing on both casual and midcore segments.
- Pokémon TCG Pocket experienced a 470% spike in daily US revenue on December 17, 2024, following the launch of its first card pack expansion containing 68 new cards.
- Brawl Stars launched its first-ever collaboration with Disney Pixar to bring Toy Story content to the game, featuring a 14-day login event that provided players with a fully upgraded Buzz character for free.
- Monopoly GO! scaled its live operations by launching its largest partner event to date, the 'Haunted Mansion' event, which required eight players to complete collaborative tasks.
Newzoo Puzzle Games Report: Mobile Game Genre Insights
Newzoo and Pangle's joint genre report examines mobile puzzle games, comparing Western and Eastern markets (the U.S., UK, Japan, South Korea, and China) to help developers and publishers understand regional differences in monetization, marketing, and player demographics.
- The United States is the world's largest mobile puzzle market, followed by Japan and China.
- Western puzzle games rely heavily on in-app advertising (IAA) and simple economies, while Eastern titles—especially in Japan—prioritize deep character collection and gacha mechanics to drive higher in-app purchase (IAP) revenue.
- Western players demonstrate a higher tolerance for frequent ad breaks, whereas Japanese players prefer longer, uninterrupted sessions and show a greater willingness to pay for aesthetic enhancements and additional functions.
Analyst Bulletin: Mobile Game Market Review November 2024
The "Analyst Bulletin: Mobile Game Market Review November 2024" provides an overview of key trends and performance indicators within the global mobile gaming sector during November 2024, focusing on significant game launches, content updates, and strategic shifts across casual and midcore segments.
- The release of Netflix’s Arcane Season 2 drove a significant surge in League of Legends: Wild Rift, with daily downloads around November 23 nearly tripling compared to the October average.
- Dream Games officially launched Royal Kingdom on November 21, differentiating the title from its predecessor, Royal Match, by incorporating PvE boss battles inspired by puzzle RPGs like Empires & Puzzles.
- HABBY’s Capybara GO!, released globally on November 20, has maintained a position within the US top 100 grossing and top 50 download charts by leveraging a mix of roguelike elements and casual gameplay.
Minigames Revisited: How Developers Are Continuing to Tap into Trends and Drive Engagement
This document, "Minigames Revisited: How Developers Are Continuing to Tap into Trends and Drive Engagement," examines the increasing adoption and strategic importance of minigames in the mobile gaming industry.
- Mobile game developers are increasingly using minigames as a core strategy to combat post-IDFA user acquisition challenges and improve long-term player retention.
- Royal Match has successfully integrated diverse minigame events into its live operations, including the Wordle-inspired 'Magic Cauldron' and the Minesweeper-style 'Hidden Temple', to maintain player engagement.
- Goddess of Victory: NIKKE utilized a high-profile collaboration to recreate the console/PC hit 'Dave the Diver' as a mobile minigame, demonstrating a strategy to test new gameplay mechanics and reach broader audiences.
BarbieOps: How Mobile Games Are Using Blockbuster Movies to Boost Engagement
This analysis examines how mobile games leverage blockbuster movie collaborations and LiveOps events to enhance engagement, downloads, and revenue, particularly in the context of declining cinema attendance post-pandemic.
- Strategic movie tie-ins can significantly boost mobile game performance, as evidenced by Stumble Guys, where a Barbie-themed event doubled daily US revenue.
- Super Mario Run experienced a 200% increase in both daily revenue and downloads following a promotional campaign that allowed players to unlock up to 50% of the game for free to coincide with the Super Mario Bros. Movie release.
- Match Masters saw its daily revenue more than quadruple during its first-ever collaboration event, demonstrating the high impact of introducing limited-time branded content.
Iteration over Innovation: Makeover Match
The analysis examines Tactile's new Match-3 game, Makeover Match, launched in March 2023, focusing on its gameplay mechanics and narrative design.
- Tactile’s Makeover Match achieves superior core gameplay by mirroring the high-quality board clarity and fast-paced mechanics of market leader Royal Match.
- The game’s level design optimizes player retention and monetization by intentionally creating a high frequency of near-finish and near-fail moments to drive extra-move purchases.
- Makeover Match’s narrative is criticized as a derivative, uninspired imitation of Project Makeover that fails to utilize Tactile’s historical strengths in immersive storytelling.
Analyst Bulletin: Mobile Game Market Review April 2023
This analyst bulletin provides a review of the mobile game market for April 2023, focusing on significant updates, new releases, and top-grossing entrants across the US, China, and Japan.
- Honkai: Star Rail achieved a record-breaking launch in April 2023, reaching the number one spot on iOS download charts in more countries than any other mobile game release to date.
- Mobile publishers are increasingly bypassing platform fees by launching external web stores, as demonstrated by Marvel Strike Force introducing 'Ultra Core' currency that can be purchased at lower prices outside of the iOS App Store.
- Clash Royale implemented a major structural overhaul in April, replacing its old battle pass with a new three-tier progression system (free, $5.99 gold, and $11.99 diamond) that expanded from 35 to over 121 tiers.
Why Renovation and Construction Elements Are Becoming More Popular in Casual Games
This document analyzes the increasing popularity of renovation and construction meta-elements within casual mobile games, particularly focusing on their ability to enhance player engagement and retention.
- Approximately 20% of top-grossing casual iOS games now incorporate meta-elements such as renovation and construction to drive player engagement.
- Renovation and construction features are particularly prevalent in the Match3 genre, appearing in 42% of the top 20% grossing titles.
- These mechanics directly leverage core player motivations of mastery (completing milestones) and expression (customization and decoration).
The Best April Fools' Day 2022 Mobile Game Events
April Fools' Day 2022 gave mobile game developers a low-risk opportunity to experiment with playful events, new modes, and monetization, and this GameRefinery analysis from May 2022 surveys how a handful of major titles approached it.
- Cookie Run: Kingdom executed the most extensive event by introducing nearly 70 temporary character costumes, unlockable via a 14-day task-based system that included narrative sequences and light monetization through event bundles.
- Garena Free Fire utilized hybrid gameplay by integrating a 10-day farming and tycoon-style event into its 3D battle royale framework, alongside a simple login-based reward of a 'Deadly Baguette' knife skin.
- Brawl Stars implemented a 'Totally Normal Challenge' that featured quirky, non-standard gameplay mechanics, such as a tilting map and a burning ball that destroyed walls upon impact.