Scaling Radar — July 31

2026-07-31

A fresh pull from the sandbox is impossible again (Apple — 403 on the tunnel, same as on the 27th and the 30th).
Data: the local run of July 30, 22:44, which overwrote latest.json after the
morning report and was never analyzed. The comparison base in the DB is July 27 (three-day deltas),
but matching it against the morning report of the 30th (the 00:16 run) gives honest ~19-hour dynamics.
153 in scoring, 26 above the threshold, 6 new alerts.

New alerts

All six are one- to two-country chart entries (rank_jump + chart_entry + youth). Two have substance:

• Word Oasis: Cross Puzzle (SEIWA) — entered AU top 24, 30.7 reviews/day, 80 days.
• AU is a classic test geo, and the review pace isn't zero. The best of the new ones; if it
• adds NZ/CA, the signal is real.
• Puzzle Artis (Brightika) — ZA top 21, 27 reviews/day, 183 days. Brightika is a real
• casual publisher (Jigsawscapes), ZA is a cheap test geo. Looks like a relaunch test
• along the lines of Color Puzzle Jam. Publisher added to the HC list.
• The rest are noise or off-profile: Ever Night: Reawakening (midcore RPG, pe+pk, 29.7
• reviews/day — the pace is there, but the genre isn't ours, excluded by token), Tiny Bookshop
• (premium indie, release organics, excluded), Car Drive Beyond Horizon (il, 0 reviews/day), Cool Lady (za, 0.1).

Highlights by stage

1. Royal Smash! (Cypher) — in 19 hours, 23→30 countries and 721→1,329 reviews/day, top 1 TR
holding. This isn't "the start of the phase" anymore, this is a full global flood after the Turkish
warm-up — the most aggressive budget ramp in the radar's history. The early point was missed back
last week, but as an indicator of "Cypher is buying seriously" it's beyond competition.
2. Lordrush (Century) — 17→18 countries in a day, reviews 54→100/day (+18.1%), best 6 IN.
11 days from release. On the combination of "young + narrow-to-medium geo + acceleration" it's still
the best early entry point on the list.
3. Highway Heroes (Pixel Federation) — 8 days, 3 countries, reviews +32.2%. The youngest
and narrowest by geo among the substantive ones — a watch priority, even though the score is only 38.
4. Family Farm Merge (Century) — reviews 106→173/day (+98.9%) at the same 10 countries,
top 3 BE. They doubled the buying inside their existing geo in a day.
5. Jigsaw Drop (Chengdu Runyou) — underrated in the morning: 8→13 countries, and the additions are au, ca,
nz, ph, sg — that is, an entry into English-speaking test geos, 580 reviews/day. The profile is
"a Chinese puzzle goes for Tier-1." Publisher added to the HC list.

Movement over ~19 hours

• Warline is back on the list (it dropped out in the morning): 40 countries, reviews 525→657/day (+25.1%).
• The global isn't a tail — the buying continues.
• Meowdoku 2,196→3,749 reviews/day — Oakever is ramping up, not holding. Plus Amaze GO!
• came up from runner-up into the main list (1,478 reviews/day) — Oakever has 2 titles again.
• Happy Restaurant 3D: 13→14 countries and reviews 1→5/day (+21.7%) — a review signal has appeared
• for the first time alongside wide geo; status raised from "watch" to "watch closely."
• Wheelie Life: 11→19 countries (a wide EU salvo: gb, it, es, pl, se…), 36 reviews/day.
• Odd by genre (moto/sports), but the geo dynamics are real.
• Profile Perfect (Lion) 27→28 countries, top 3 KR — the deploy continues steadily.
• Nobody substantive dropped out of the morning list; the Japanese escapes and EA are gone
• thanks to yesterday's exclude tokens.

Publishers

• Century Games — 2 titles: Lordrush (geo ramp) + Family Farm Merge (doubling the
• buying in existing geo). The portfolio flood is confirmed for a third day — watch
• every new Century title in test geos.
• Oakever — 2 titles: Meowdoku (accelerating at scale) + Amaze GO! (back on the list).
• The portfolio budget is growing.
• Lion Studios: one title (Profile Perfect), a steady deploy.

Caveats

Not a cold start. The deltas in the JSON are three-day (base the 27th); the daily dynamics in the text were
calculated against the morning report of the 30th by hand. The data is as of the evening of the 30th, i.e. the report
lags real time by ~a day — a fresh pull is only possible through a local run
on the Mac (launchd/run_local.sh). Android is still switched off.

List edits

HC_PUBLISHERS += brightika, chengdu runyou. HARD_EXCLUDE_TOKENS += "ever night",
"tiny bookshop", "価値ズレ" (RPG, premium indie and JP organics that were slipping through rank_jump).