It’s been a long time coming, but Dream Games’ Royal Kingdom finally made its long-awaited debut in November after a significant soft launch period. Given the immense popularity of the title’s predecessor, Royal Match, many are wondering how the title might disrupt the norm. It has not quite smashed its way to the top of the grossing charts, but early results suggest it is slowly but surely climbing up the ranks.
Who says less can’t be more? Match3 is usually the genre that comes to mind when discussing puzzle games dominating the mobile charts, but last month, two notable titles switched their attention to merge2 instead.
Everything you need to know about these games and updates, as well as the latest events and trends from both the casual and midcore markets, is detailed in our latest analyst bulletin below.
These points could be spent to open up space on the game’s merge2 board, which was almost completely locked down at the beginning of the event. Players would receive event items as they unlocked spaces, but the key rewards—such as in-game boosters and in-game currency—were specifically tied to unlocking chest tiles on the grid.
After spending more than a year in its soft launch period, Dream Games’ Royal Kingdom, the successor to Royal Match, officially released onto the mobile market on 21 November. The final product has changed somewhat since it first became playable in April 2023, going through multiple iterations. For example, it originally featured multiple PvP elements that ran simultaneously, a feature that has since been scrapped.
The game also introduced a new guild-based PvP competition mode, Team Battle, where players compete to destroy an enemy base by collecting and using barrels to damage enemy structures. The first team to destroy all the enemy items or accumulate the most barrel points was awarded a grand prize—a bundle of event currency and pet food, plus a chest.
