Scaling Radar — September 2

2026-09-02

After yesterday's portfolio volley the market exhaled: almost nobody expanded their geo, but 71 titles jumped an install bracket in 24 hours. Volume is growing, reach is flat.

40 candidates, 16 new alerts, four of them meaningful.

New alerts

Ultrapool: Pool Roguelite (offbrand games, iOS, 9 days) — entered the charts in six countries at once, #17 in Ireland. There are almost no reviews, but a volley entry on day nine isn't organic.

Spooky Fun Clicker (SkyRise, 65 days) — 3 → 9 countries, #34 in Norway, 1M installs. SkyRise has a second title moving at the same time, ASMR Mystery Blind Bag: also 1 → 9 countries.

Finding Animals — Spot All (Yolo Game Studios, 50 days) — one country, Turkey, #88. But reviews are up 69% and the install bracket has gone up: it looks like a soft launch before a rollout.

PopDrop Color Shooter (Batuhan Bakay) — 765 reviews/day in a single country, #96 → #29 in two days. Narrow and very dense.

Another twelve are noise and slot wrappers: one or two countries, zero reviews.

Who we caught early

Bracelet DIY: ASMR Charm Maker (HIGAME, 7 days) — the best curve on the radar: 3 → 8 → 21 → 23 countries and #47 → #9 in the Czech Republic over four days. A steady staircase with no pullbacks.

Paint & Color: Hide Seek Guys (HIGAME, 8 days) — 16 → 25 countries, #33 → #13. The same handwriting, the same publisher, launched the same day.

Blox World: All In One (Blox Global, 48 days) — it sat in one country for three weeks, then 1 → 4 → 12 → 20 → 21 in four days, #50 → #20. The test is over, the pour has begun.

Splash Buster (Nebula, 37 days) — fifth day up in a row: 9 → 14 → 23 → 26 countries, #94 → #28, installs 50k → 100k. The rollout is confirmed by volume.

For contrast: Craft Builder 3D and Superstore Story 3D rank high by score, but they're 80 and 60 days old at 37 and 24 countries — that's the middle of the phase, not the start.

Movement

Amaze Belle (OSIRIS, 6 days) — yesterday I called it the best on the list; over 24 hours the geo and position haven't moved at all, 21 countries and #34. The install bracket, meanwhile, went from 5k to 10k. They're buying deeper into the same countries, not wider.

Keyboard Escape: Speed Parkour (H2T) — held 42 countries and climbed to #2 in Saudi Arabia.

Wonder Castle (Eureka) — ninth day up in a row, 17 → 18 countries, #12 → #11.

Nail Salon: ASMR Simulator (WeGit) — the geo was cut from 20 to 13 countries, but installs moved from 100k into 500k. The same picture we saw with Goddess Diff: narrowing and intensifying.

The ones that dropped off the list — Garden Glow, Monkey Obby, Fruit Merge Drop, Cute Scoop, Prison Break, Word Tiles — are holding steady in the stores, and Prison Break and Monkey Obby even moved up a step in installs over the day.

Publishers

HIGAME — thirteen titles in the charts and three launches back to back at the end of August: Bracelet DIY, Paint & Color and Mystery Dumpling Glitter Unbox (already 40 countries, #2).

What's more interesting is something else: all three are replicas of hits by Brocker Bus Studio. Brocker Bus's Bracelet Maker: DIY ASMR came out on July 9 and sits at #1 in 43 countries — HIGAME's Bracelet DIY came out on August 26. Mystery Dumpling: Unbox ASMR — August 7, 47 countries, 5M installs; HIGAME's Glitter Unbox — August 25. A six-week lag, and the clone is already catching the original in the charts. This pair is worth following as a whole, not as separate games.

_Deltas are over three days, not 24 hours._

Money — September 2

The main fact of the day: 71 titles jumped an install bracket in 24 hours, and Top Grossing barely stirred. Exactly one title added countries in Grossing, and four more entered at #99–100 in a single country. There are many times more installs — and no payers.

Volume growing, no money

Mukbang ASMR: Idol Livestream (BLACKGEMS) — 10M installs, #3 in 44 countries, purchases in the catalog from $1.99 to $4.99, zero countries in Grossing. The title is nearly four months old: IAP simply doesn't work here.

Mini Soccer: Football Cup 2026 (TSACom, 65 days) — the bracket went from 5M to 10M, 43 countries, #2. There are no purchases in the catalog at all — pure advertising at maximum reach. The largest volume of the day.

Keyboard Escape: Speed Parkour (H2T) — second day at 42 countries and already #2 in Saudi Arabia, while Grossing sits where it sat, at two countries (#46 → #49). Nobody is buying the purchases at up to $169 an item. Yesterday's worry is confirmed.

Bus Crowd (Hyper Surfer), Drama Story: Exposed Prank (SixGLab), Craft Battle: Block Wars (Coup Coup) — 45, 36 and 45 countries, a million installs each, and the first two have full IAP ladders. Grossing is empty for all three.

Who's paying back

Jam Bus: Sandfall (Nova Games, 77 days) — the only clean growth of the day: Grossing from 9 to 13 countries, while Top Free is just 6 countries and #60. Money growing faster than reach — a rare reversal, usually it's the other way around. That's retention, not buying.

Coin Collector (VENTURESIS) — yesterday's growth rolled back: Grossing from 5 countries down to 4, #74 → #81. It has held #1 in thirty countries for a week, and the money is treading water. Yesterday's optimism was premature.

Install brackets up

The most interesting one is Skincare ASMR: Makeover (CAT Studio): 1M → 5M, and all of it across nine countries at #5. A jump like that on such narrow geo means very deep buying in a handful of markets, not a rollout.

Arrow Pro 3D (Iridium) 500k → 1M across 32 countries. Gugu Gaga: Keyboard Escape (Goldoint, 20 days) 100k → 500k and #1 in 23 countries for a week running — it only missed the radar because the geo is flat while volume grows. Mahjong Breeze (Passion Fruit) and Nail Salon ASMR (WeGit) — also 100k → 500k.

Among the young ones: Splash Buster (Nebula), Smash Land! (Flow Games) and Prison Break (oZ) — 50k → 100k, Monkey Obby (H2T) 10k → 50k, Amaze Belle (OSIRIS) 5k → 10k.

Separately

A noticeable share of those 71 bracket jumps are slots, betting and real-cash wrappers: the 999SL series, Lottostar, 10bet, Teenpatti, Chicken Road in two spellings at once, one of them with Cyrillic letters in place of Latin ones. They're being pushed in batches from identical fresh accounts. It has nothing to do with HC, but it climbs into the charts and spoils the sample.