The indie game that beat a AAA studio with 250 employees

Mornin'! Here’s a quick quiz to wake you up: guess how much the indie game “Stumble Guys” earned in its first 2 months on mobile? The answer is at the very end of the newsletter.

In today’s newsletter: Several new games have been announced, a twin-stick shooter scores 8.5 on MiniReview, and we discuss how Stumble Guys beat a AAA studio!

🎮 Behind the Scenes: How a tiny Finnish team created the most popular party platformer

In 2020, the 250-person team at game developer “Mediatonic” published their popular party platformer, Fall Guys on PC and consoles.

Unfortunately for them, they didn’t have a mobile version ready. So when a 6-person team in Finland decided to create a similar game for mobile, it blew up. As in; blew up! It quickly gained 225m downloads and 20m daily active players.

And just a few months later, they sold the game to mobile game publisher Scopely. This is a truly crazy story about how a small team beat a large studio at their own game, and you can read more about it here.

It just comes to show that mobile should not be underestimated - something many AAA studios still haven’t fully understood.

📢 Mobile Gaming News

The latest mobile gaming news from around the block web.

• Battle Guys is the Stumble Guys creators' newest hat in the ring with battle royale action

• Ash of Gods: Redemption begins closed beta testing for mobile

• Supercell teases a secret website for Squad Busters

• Command & Conquer: Legions opens pre-registrations for Android and iOS

• Harvest Moon: Home Sweet Home the sequel to the farming series, Harvest Moon is set to release in August

🔥 Fresh Reviews

So, we played some games… and now we just can’t shut up about them on MiniReview.

🚀 New releases

Watch out! These games are so fresh they might still be hot! 🥵 

🏷 Games on sale

What’s better than great premium games? Great premium games that are on sale! So here are some of this week’s most interesting ones.

• $6.99 $1.99 Minecraft

• $3.99 $0.99 Shadow of Death: Dark Knight 

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