GAM3S Grid Weekly Newsletter

Top headlines from this week’s digest:

• Yuga Labs Restructures, Announces Layoffs Amid NFT Market Shift
• Web3 Technology Revolutionizing Gaming for Players and Developers
• Mythical Games Introduces Nitro Nation World Tour
• Line Next Launches Sweet Monster Guardians Web3 Game
• Axie Infinity October Development Update: Origins, S5 and More
• METAPIXEL Pauses Flagship Web3 Game Gran Saga: Unlimited
• Samsung's Game Launcher for Mobile and Web3 Gaming
• Xsolla New Partnerships and Tokyo Expansion to Empower Devs
• Cross the Ages Confirms Season 3 Will Take Place on the Rift
• Immutable and Amazon Investing in the Next Evolution of Gaming
• Role Playing Games Makes Up 60% of Korean Mobile Game Sales

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Role Playing Games Makes Up 60% of Korean Mobile Game Sales

New data from Sensor Tower highlights RPGs as a significant force in South Korea's mobile gaming market.

What’s Going On Here??

Recent data from Sensor Tower has shed light on the dominance of Role-Playing Games (RPGs) in South Korea's mobile gaming market, accounting for a substantial 60% of total sales. South Korea's influence in the gaming industry echoes globally, making these findings significant.

What Does This Mean?

When examining global mobile game sales by genre from January to August this year, RPGs commanded the highest share at 25.1%. In the same period, the Korean market boasted the third-highest share of global mobile RPG sales at 13.5%, following Japan and China's iOS. Remarkably, the proportion of RPGs in mobile game sales within Korea was significantly higher than other major markets.

Digging deeper into the Korean mobile RPG market from 2019 to 2023, Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) continued to lead, accounting for 69.5% of RPG sales in 2023. However, squad-based RPGs saw a substantial surge, registering a 39% increase in market share between 2019 and 2023. Games like Goddess of Victory: Nikke and Cookie Run: Kingdom fueled this growth.

Idle games also saw a notable rise, with a 159% increase in market share from 2019 to 2023, driven by titles like Legend of Slime: Idle RPG.

Why Should I Care?

These findings hold significance beyond mobile gaming, especially in the context of web3 gaming. As the web3 gaming landscape evolves, the diverse subgenres within RPGs serve as a microcosm of the broader industry.

For example, Fableborne by Pixion Games is an isometric play-to-own multiplayer game that combines Action RPG and Base Building elements, offering a unique gaming experience within the web3 space.

The growth of squad RPGs and idle games, fueled by character collection and innovative advertising strategies, foreshadows potential trends in web3 gaming, particularly on mobile platforms. The collaborative and decentralized nature of web3 gaming can leverage these trends to create distinctive gaming experiences and monetization models.

South Korea's mobile gaming scene, with its RPG preference, provides valuable insights for developers and enthusiasts venturing into the web3 gaming frontier. This data underscores the evolving nature of gaming preferences and highlights the potential for web3 gaming to further diversify and innovate within the RPG genre.

Read the full report breakdown here

Conversation of the Week

This week we spoke with Arief Widhiyasa - CEO at Mythic Protocol to learn more about their AI enabled action-shooter rougelite launching on mobile, console & PC

Mythic Protocol is an action RPG roguelite title where players take on waves of enemies in procedurally generated dungeons with boss fights at the end of every level. The game promotes cooperative gameplay, putting players in teams of three where each player is extremely valuable to their team and their overall playstyle.

What You Need to Know About Mythic Protocol:

• Gameplay Dynamics: Mythic Protocol is a roguelike ARPG that combines blockchain technology with exhilarating gameplay. Players venture into procedurally generated dungeons, face waves of enemies, and engage in cooperative gameplay in teams of three.
• Rich Lore & Setting: Set in a world influenced by conspiracy theories and secret societies, Mythic Protocol delves deep into humanity's historical events, questioning their authenticity. As rifts between our world and the unknown emerge, powerful secret organizations unite to confront a shared enemy, forming the Mythic Protocol agreement.
• Early Access: Mythic Protocol: Riftstorm is available in Early Access on Steam, allowing players to engage with the game during its development phase. The Early Access version offers a core progression with 12-14 hours of content, cooperative gameplay with up to three players, and three distinct agent classes.

Listen to the full conversation recording here

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