Scaling Radar — August 26

2026-08-26

40 candidates, 8 new alerts, three of them meaningful.

New alerts

TukTuk Turnpoint (zaks, Android, 20 days) — 1 → 9 countries in three days, #92 → #38. The geo is cheap throughout: BR, AR, CL, ZA, PK, SA. But reviews are zero across nine countries — traffic without engagement, so far it looks like pouring money into nothing.

Ragdoll Survival Playground (oZ Studio, Android, 42 days) — stood in one country for three weeks, today 1 → 6 (CO, IN, MX, MY, TH), rank #55 → #46. At the same time oZ's Prison Break: Dig Escape showed up for the first time — see the publishers.

Fortune Hunter: Golden Saga (StarFortune, iOS, 76 days) — an 80-position jump into Indonesia's top 20, one country. Too early to judge, keep watching.

Another 5 are noise: one to three countries, zero reviews.

Breakdown

Water Sort: Romantic Dream (Blue Blaze, Android, 15 days) — the cleanest pattern of the day: from the 21st the geo was contracting 17 → 9 (the test ended), since Sunday a reversal 9 → 15 countries with the rank going #75 → #31, and the install bracket jumped 50K → 100K. The pause between test and scale is over, the tap is open.

Makeover Karma (MAGO, Android, 34 days) — yesterday's best entry continues by the book: 6 → 9 countries, added US, CA, AU, and a second bracket in a row — 50K+ the day before yesterday, 100K+ today. Two jumps in two days — a pace Play confirms on its own.

Last One Standing - Celeb Quiz (tnySocial, iOS, 12 days) — 1 → 6 countries: NO, SE, FI, CA, IE, NZ. A textbook expensive test on the Scandinavians, reviews +49%. Young, narrow, iOS-only — the start of the phase as it actually looks.

Cute Scoop DIY (BLACKGEMS, 12 days) — yesterday the question was whether reviews would catch up with the geo: they did, 55 → 188 a day. The run-up itself has stalled: 32 → 27 countries, #11 → #14. Looks like a pause after the salvo rather than a retreat — the volume is confirmed.

Block City Mansion (ABW apps, 49 days) — yesterday it was widening without gaining positions, today the answer: 13 → 23 countries and #70 → #36 at once. Complaint withdrawn.

Movement

Smash Land! (Flow Games, 12 days) — 15 → 18 countries, #11 in Switzerland, 834 reviews a day. Smash Out (Flare Star) 21 → 24 countries. House Cleaning ASMR — a second day at #1 in Belgium, 29 countries. Craft Builder has plateaued at 40 countries / #8 — the rollout is complete. Down: Hair Salon 33 → 29, Craft World Survival deflated 8 → 6 with a rollback #24 → #44 — the re-buying did not take. Gugu Gaga Penguin Obby (Goldoint) collapsed 32 → 2 countries in five days, but their own Keyboard Escape has grown for a sixth day running, 20 countries / #9 — the budget was moved from one title to the other.

Publishers

oZ Studio — two alerts at once (Ragdoll Survival + Prison Break) alongside the already worked-through Escape Tsunami: a conveyor of ragdoll sims, buying across the portfolio.
Oakever — Meowdoku is still #1 in Australia on both platforms, Android crawled 37 → 39 countries.
Runyou — Jigsaw Drop: iOS holds 30 countries / #5, Android jumped the bracket 1M → 5M. Both stores, the plan is on track.
Nebula Studio — Tap Tile also jumped the bracket 1M → 5M, GOGO! Blast 10 → 19 countries in three days. Two on the list.

Money — August 26

Brackets up. Four at once in 24 hours. Makeover Karma (MAGO) 50K → 100K — a second jump in two days. Water Sort: Romantic Dream (Blue Blaze) 50K → 100K simultaneously with the geo reversal — a rare case where Play confirms the volume on the same day the charts show the buying. Tap Tile! (Nebula) and Jigsaw Drop (Runyou, Android) — both 1M → 5M: four-month-old titles went through multiple volume growth after the rollout, so buying is not being wound down but topped up. Tellingly, neither has any IAP catalog at all — a multiple pour on pure ad economics.

Who is in Grossing. Out of 33 Android candidates — three: Royal Smash (Cypher) steady at 39 countries / #21 in the US, Bus Loop (Shoyo Mobi) 10 countries / #50 in Brazil, Ghost Sniper (Alda) 3 countries. Outside the current list the benchmark is unchanged: Food Hunt (EVERFUN) holds 45 countries / #11 for a fourth day without moving — the machine is working.

The main "volume is there, money is not" case has changed. Yesterday it was Grass Master, today something bigger: Meowdoku (Oakever) — 10M+ installs, #1 in Australia's Top Free on both platforms, 39 countries, IAP catalog $3.99–69.99 — and zero countries in Grossing. The title is four months old with 2,000+ reviews a day. The catalog hangs there as dead weight: the economy is ad-based in fact, just with a storefront attached.

Ocean Block Shoot (HM Games, 41 days) — the same picture one step down: 26 countries, 991 reviews a day, catalog up to $99.99, Grossing empty. For a month and a half and that kind of width, this is no longer "early".

Grass Master (SayGames) — a postscript to yesterday: over the weekend it flickered into Grossing in one country at #98–100 and disappeared again. Purchases are trickling, but at 1M+ installs that is zero.

Medal Hunter (Ten Square) — the retention cycle continues: Top Free shrank 36 → 30 countries, Grossing grew 19 → 21 countries at #28. The only one in the field already living on revenue rather than on buying.