Swedish developer Midjiwan is celebrating a milestone 20 million downloads of its hit technique sport The Battle of Polytopia throughout Google Play and the App Retailer.
Since its launch as a Flash sport in 2016, the sport has gone on to be successful on a wide range of platforms together with Steam, the Nintendo Change, and even Tesla vehicles. Moreover, the sport has confirmed so profitable that Stockholm has a devoted retailer, Polytopia Store of Souveniers, promoting official merchandise.
“By reaching greater than 20 million gamers, we’ve confirmed that you just don’t should be aggressive with monetisation to have a profitable cellular sport,” stated Midjiwan common supervisor Christian Lövstedt.
“In truth, that’s precisely why our sport is successful – we give attention to offering nice gameplay, not the enterprise mannequin. These values will proceed lengthy into the longer term as we proceed to develop throughout platforms and discover potential future titles within the Polytopia universe.”
The highway to success
Polytopia’s success is attributed partially to its mixture of cellular gaming and PC gameplay, serving to it stand out from different cellular 4X technique video games constructed for cellular. Moreover, the sport has discovered success with its laidback monetisation technique, specializing in cosmetics and expansions with no in-game foreign money or pay-to-win mechanics. This has helped the sport change into successful with critics and customers alike, resulting in it taking house the “Excellence in Gameplay” award on the 2017 Worldwide Cell Gaming Awards.
“After I began making The Battle of Polytopia, I wished to create the type of sport that I’d take pleasure in, that wasn’t already accessible anyplace else,” stated Midjiwan founder and sport designer Felix Ekenstam. “The concept was to construct the very best strategic sport whereas mixing it with the simplicity and accessibility you’d count on on cellular, however with out all of the aggressive monetisation nonsense this viewers hates. Now, 20 million downloads later, I feel it’s protected to say my imaginative and prescient for the sport has been validated.
“I’d like to provide an enormous thanks to the followers who’ve stayed with us on our journey, and we’ve received much more coming down the highway for The Battle of Polytopia that I feel they and new gamers alike will love.”
In different milestone information, Monster Hunter Now has reached 5 million installs inside its first week.
