Man, I mean a tin foil hat, 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

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properly in the, in the previous episode, no cuz it was 4:00 a.m. I know, I know, I know. Now it's 5 a.m., so hello, hello. Welcome everybody, my name is Mel Anich. I'm Felix Braberg, and host, yeah. Hello, and we're

going to talk about some interesting games in soft launch, right? Is that what you're watching? Great. And I'm getting blurted, hello, high five. And it always works. Oh, hey, hey, hello. Very, very interesting stuff today, definitely very interesting. Oh, I love it. Interesting stuff, everybody loves

Interesting stuff, yeah, let's see, let's see. You have how much do we have? We have 1, 2, 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 show 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 thing, 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 Rogue 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 Rogue 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 Ludo 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 hexasword 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 hex aort works so well why try differently if you

you know you can stuff in puzzle gameplay from match three puzzle 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 soft launch August 19th 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 roguelike 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 roguelike it seems I I I why

do you think they haven't put rewarded ads on the game board such a yeah maybe this is actual gameplay 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, it's 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 the 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 rogue-lite 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 Supercell 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 and 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 launch 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 Supercell what they do let's copy it and let's get inspired these guys are smart like they're like you know don't reinvent 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 Solitaire is like [ __ ]

high CPIs and we had this debate having this thing in soft launch, Sol talk the episode, but like you never said what the CPIs actually are in the states. Like on average for Solitaire games it's match free, it's match free, it's

match 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 into this, this is how the Solitaire revenue looks like

where there's Solitaire Grand Harvest which makes like 17 mil. I worked on this game before the peaks, then there's Fishdom Sol and all these let's say these are all I think the old ones. Like this is just like there's only one Solitaire 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 a 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 Solitaire 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 solitaire and and this is not even solitaire 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 treadmill that Hidden Object just produces and that's why we don't have many hidden object games yeah that's why we're freaking demanding okay so Clash Chronicles soft launch 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 Playtika Vuga and now DeNA 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 soft launch 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 soft launch June 13th 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 2 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 collectible

talent cards collectible where there's literally a button that's called the Gacha, 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 launched 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 get my hands on the APK uh signature systems in it like yeah there you see and and you actually I think you even move over some kind of UI like it was it was very

reminiscent something like Clash Royale last time I saw it no not Clash 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 postponed it to 22nd

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 Absolutely 100% like I don't know how the art 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 Mushroom 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-phase game 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 Isle launched because oh yeah literally no [ __ ] way Vector wise definitely yeah

because they had like you seen like all those things that they had at 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 content 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 downfolds slowly as usual I'm playing this for

a 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 content 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 launch so we can see the shape of the fins shape of the fins are you going to be in Helsinki by then oh hopefully not hopefully there won't be F there will be mountains oh yeah

absolutely stabilizing mountains stabilizing going to go we're going to go on a hike on a hike in those mountains definitely going to go on the hike yeah so yeah this thing is just gorgeous uh yeah I can't 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 launch 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 called superhero League I was like is

like what is it what is it by the way thanks to all the YouTubers 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 animation 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 creatives which won't be fake because this is actually the game 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 Home games uh no superhero League 2 soft launch 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 shot all the time? Yeah, Storm Shot, yeah. It's it's it's in it and it's like this is a great concept because this is like pure, you know, 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 gameplay because it's launching on September 18th, but it's again marketing excellence because it's a 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 a new age and stuff like that. And there's gacha 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 a 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 were 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 shelves we are actually operating a McDonald's 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

still have a lot to show off. Uh, Burger Simulator, of course, it was supposed to happen. So many people that had super like, in when we were in Turkey, I met three different companies that had an iteration. Man, Supermarket Manager, yeah. Supermarket, yeah, like, yeah, everybody so.

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 Superent 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 exactly 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 original 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 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 Visario 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

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