Scaling Radar — September 14

2026-09-14

40 candidates, 9 new alerts. An Android day: three young titles took off over the weekend, while on iOS the favourites of the week slowed down for the first time.

The main thing

Block Out! — Color Sort Puzzle (Grand Games, Android, 6 days) — 16 → 22 → 26 countries in three days, NG #15, 3.7k reviews on day six. The iOS version has been sitting at #1 in 44 countries for almost a year, so Android is being rolled out with a budget from the start, no test phase. Fastest start of the day.

Steal a Eggs — Grow Animals (Portak, 19 days) — on Friday it was VN #8 and one country, today 8 → 23 countries in 24 hours, VN #4. The obby wave has moved from test into rollout.

Mystery Dumpling: Squishy Box (Brocker Bus, 20 days) — 15 → 31 countries in a day, #22 → #5 ID, installs over the week 100k → 500k. Brocker's second title in ASMR unboxing is picking up speed while the first one (Unbox ASMR) holds #1 in 46 countries.

Young titles with narrow geo

Skincare ASMR: Makeover Games (CozyTap, 26 days) — 22 countries, GR #7, installs over the week 5k → 100k. Right next to it, a name-twin: Skincare ASMR: Makeover Game (CAT Studio, 158 days, 5M+) — 8 → 19 → 30 countries in two days, FI #7, reviews doubled. The original and the clone stand at the same position, and the original is accelerating harder right now.

Nail Salon: ASMR Simulator (WeGit, 43 days) — 9 → 15 → 17 → 19 countries, #34 → #22 PE. Entry through LatAm (PE, AR, CL, CO) — a quiet but steady rollout.

Magical Girl: Idle Pixel Hero (Mind Blossom, 8 days) — TW #33 → #7, two countries and already two in Grossing. An Asian soft launch with monetisation from day one.

Spinner Evolution (Hypermonk, iOS, 14 days) — 1 → 17 → 21 → 19 countries, DK #8. Hypermonk has Drive 2 Climb alongside it at 16 countries, TR #5 — two titles on iOS at once.

Movement

Food Hunt: Pixel Puzzle (Funfinity, iOS) — 34 → 42 countries, #3 MY. Ninth day of growth in a row, the best trajectory of the month.

No WiFi Mini Games (Seaart, 81 days) — 12 → 18 countries, #25 → #11 AR. TukTuk Turnpoint (zaks, 39 days) — 23 countries, #1 ZA. Hollywood Merge (iOS) — 20 → 26 countries, #3 KR.

MiniMuses (Studio Sirenia, 7 days) — first day without growth: 21 → 16 countries, #4 US. Fish Sort Puzzle (SUPLIFE, iOS) — 22 → 19, holding #5. Colorever (Oakever, iOS) — 23 → 15. Ultrapool — 3 → 0 in three days, the Spanish test has been shut down. Wild Water World — 18 countries, #1 HK, tenth day at the top.

Splash Buster: Smash Fest 3D (Nebula, 49 days) — 39 countries, TR #16, but the geo is not the point: reviews 252 → 2,045 → 3,466 in two days with the average rating going 4.5 → 4.9. That is not organic.

Publishers

Nebula Studio — four titles in 38–47 countries at once: Tap Tile! (#2), GOGO! Blast (45 countries, 1M+), Block Bloom (38), Splash Buster (39). Plus Zoodoku at 17. They are buying across the whole portfolio, and not one of them has a single country in Grossing.

Brocker Bus vs HIGAME — the originals: Unbox ASMR 46 countries #1, Squishy Box 31 #5, Bracelet Maker 30 #7. The clones: Bracelet DIY 37 #2, Glitter Unbox 34 #12, Keyboard Obby 32 #4. Six titles from two studios occupy the top of the ASMR category.

CAT Studio — House Cleaning ASMR 42 countries #1 (installs over the week 500k → 1M) and Skincare ASMR 30 countries. oZ Studio — Escape Tsunami 19 countries VN #10 and Ragdoll Survival 20.

Another 5 alerts — noise, or no movement over the week.

Money — only what the store showed us itself

The buying is paying off

Jam Bus: Sandfall (Nova Games, 89 days) — two weeks ago Grossing was 9 countries #66, today it is 18 countries #34, and all of that against Top Free #5 CA across 37 countries. The rollout started on Thursday and the revenue chart answered within three days. The cleanest example of the week of buying converting straight away.

Royal Smash! (Cypher) — #1 in Top Free on both platforms, Grossing 40 countries #15. Nothing is changing, and that is a signal too: the plateau at the top is holding for a second week.

Quack Bag: Duck Mafia (Noodle Games, 57 days) — in early August it was the headline name: 15 days old, 41 countries, Grossing in 34. A month and a half later Top Free is 39 countries #14, Grossing 32 countries #32 — the rollout has not shrunk by a single country. A rare case where the August forecast of "a signed budget" came good.

Grossing without buying

Zombie Rush: Idle Survival (Dreamweave, 52 days) — Top Free only 10 countries #35, but Grossing 30 countries, #54 → #38 over the week. It lives on retention and IAP up to $99.99, not on traffic. For idle survival that is normal, but a trajectory going up without buying is rare.

Knock Knock: Room Defense (Joy Nice, 17 days) — on Friday I called it a find. Since then Top Free has been sliding: CL #4 → #17. But Grossing is holding: 21 countries #13, installs moved into 100k+. The buying was dialled back and the revenue stayed — that is a good sign, not a bad one.

Volume is growing, the money isn't showing

Nebula Studio — four titles in 38–47 countries, 6.5M+ installs in total by bracket, and zero Grossing countries for all four. Splash Buster has purchases in the catalogue at $0.99–99.99, but it has not made the revenue chart in a single country in 49 days. The whole portfolio runs on ads — and against that backdrop the review spike of 252 → 3,466 with the rating climbing to 4.9 looks even more suspicious.

CAT Studio — the same profile: House Cleaning 1M+ (the bracket moved up this week), Skincare 5M+, one purchase each in the catalogue ($2.49–2.99, removing ads), Grossing empty. Ads plus remove-ads; no IAP meta is being built.

Block Out! (Grand Games, Android, 6 days) — 3.7k reviews and 26 countries, and Play is not showing an install bracket yet. Purchases in the catalogue up to $99.99 — we are waiting for it to appear in Grossing; for the iOS version that is the flagship revenue source.

Installs moved into a new bracket over the week

GOGO! Blast (Nebula), House Cleaning ASMR (CAT Studio), Mukbang Scoop ASMR (WingsMob), Cute Scoop DIY: ASMR Packing (Blackgems), Cube Tap Sort (Tripledot) — 1M+. Cube Tap Sort, meanwhile, was being wound down by Tripledot over the week (6 countries today): the volume was gathered before the decision.
Mystery Dumpling: Squishy Box (Brocker Bus), Fish Sort Puzzle (Shycheese, Android) — 500k+.
Smash Blast (Devsimo, 17 days, +1.7k reviews over the week), Rocket Out (Pinakin, 10 days), Knock Knock, Skincare ASMR (CozyTap, straight up from 5k), Obby Supercar Race Keyboard, Smash All: Knockdown 3D, Mahjong Flow — 100k+.

Of all the titles whose bracket grew, only Knock Knock and Jewel Loop (500k+, Grossing 5 countries) are in Grossing. The rest are volume without a receipt.