Scaling Radar — September 15

2026-09-15

40 candidates, 20 new alerts — four of them substantive, the rest single-country entries with no reviews.

New

Bola Capture (KAYAC, Android, 41 days) — 1 → 5 → 10 countries in three days, KR #24. The Japanese publisher is rolling it out across Asia (JP, KR, TW, HK, SG) plus US/CA/AU/NZ. 108 reviews in total, 12 a day — we caught it before any volume at all. Best entry of the day.

Idle Internet Tycoon (LEYO, 12 days) — one country at #63 yesterday, ten countries and DK #4 today. Reviews +54% in a day on 5k installs, IAP up to $49.99. Twelve days old and already top-5 in Denmark — exactly the phase this radar was built for.

Fashion Arena: Dress Up Game (Sprigame, 25 days) — 3 → 5 → 6 → 14 countries, IN #23 → #8, install bracket moved past 100k. Reviews per day are still zero: geo and the bracket are running ahead of reviews, which means the buying has only just been switched on.

Twist Colors: Cube Smash (Nova Games, 59 days) — first appearance, 4 countries, AU #64, bracket at 50k+. Weak on its own, but it is Nova's second title sitting next to Jam Bus.

Another 16 alerts — one country, zero reviews a day. Noise.

The read

ASMR Satisfy: House Deep Clean (Amazuro, 70 days) — 8 → 24 countries in 24 hours, AR #32 → #6. The sharpest single-day jump of the day, and the title had been flat for the three days before it.

Skincare ASMR — a reversal. CAT Studio (159 days): 8 → 19 → 30 → 33 countries, FI #6, 1,341 reviews a day (+38%). CozyTap (26 days), which I called the accelerating one yesterday: 26 → 25 → 22 → 23 countries, #7 → #13. I got that wrong — it is the older title that is moving, and the young one that has stalled.

Car Sort: Color Puzzle (Rollic, 151 days) — 5 → 15 countries on Android (AU #33), 4 → 6 on iOS. An old title, but Rollic is reopening it, and it already sits in Grossing in 33 countries.

Block Out! (Grand Games, Android, 7 days) — 26 → 30 countries, ES #15 → #6, 1,114 reviews a day. Fourth day of growth in a row; the iOS version meanwhile holds #1 in 44 countries without moving.

Colony Flow! (ABI, 94 days) — on both stores at once: iOS 27 → 35 countries BR #4, Android 38 → 40 #6. Scaled a while ago, and we caught it late — but it is the money story of the day, and it gets its own section below.

Movement

Food Hunt: Pixel Puzzle (Funfinity, iOS) — 42 → 44 countries, SA #2, tenth consecutive day of growth. The same title on Android sits at 30 countries and is sliding #22 → #32: the budget went entirely to iOS.

Nail Salon: ASMR Simulator (WeGit, 44 days) — 19 → 26 countries, ZA #20, fifth day exactly. Solitaire Stack Sort (HM Games) — 1 → 17 countries in a day. Racing Square (Amobear) — 2 → 11, PL #31. Word Tiles (Agave, iOS) — 7 → 11, US #3.

Switched off — checked against the charts, not the score. MiniMuses (Studio Sirenia, iOS): 21 → 16 → 2 countries, #3 → #15. Yesterday I wrote that it had its first day without growth — over two days the rollout was pulled entirely. Mystery Dumpling: Squishy Box (Brocker Bus): 31 → 14 countries, #5 → #15, also right after I praised it. Steal a Eggs (Portak): 23 → 15, VN #4 → #8. GOGO! Blast (Nebula) holds 43 countries, but its rank slipped #16 → #32.

Publishers

Nova Games — Jam Bus at 39 countries NZ #6 plus Twist Colors with a rising bracket: a portfolio, not a single title.

CAT Studio — House Cleaning at 42 countries #1 and Skincare at 33 countries #6, both at the top of ASMR.

Brocker Bus / HIGAME — Unbox ASMR locked at #1 in 46 countries, Glitter Unbox 32 countries #10, but Squishy Box halved in a day.

Nebula Studio — Splash Buster at 38 countries TR #14 and 3,462 reviews a day, +100% in 24 hours with the rank unmoved. Third day running that reviews double without the chart moving.

Money — only what the store showed us itself

The buying is paying off

Colony Flow! (ABI) — the headline of the day. Grossing: 47 countries out of 47, VN #7, #9 → #7 over the week. Full coverage of the revenue chart is no longer "the buying pays for itself", it is a title in the money top-10 everywhere it runs. Top Free only caught up today: iOS 27 → 35 countries. The money arrived before the geo, not the other way round.

Jam Bus: Sandfall (Nova Games) — Grossing 18 → 23 countries, #34 → #28 in a day; a week ago it was #61 in 15 countries. The rollout started on Thursday, and the revenue chart has been answering it for five days straight without a pause. The cleanest conversion of traffic into money currently visible.

Royal Smash! (Cypher) — #1 on Android in 43 countries, #1 on iOS in 29, Grossing 42 countries #15 → #13. Third week on the plateau at the top, and it is not sagging.

Car Sort: Color Puzzle (Rollic) — Grossing steady at 33 countries #22, while Top Free only started moving now: 5 → 15 countries. Rollic is pouring budget into a title that already monetises — the reverse of the usual order.

Volume is growing, the money isn't showing

CAT Studio — 5M+ installs on Skincare, 1M+ on House Cleaning, both top-6 in ASMR across 33 and 42 countries. One $2.49 purchase in the catalogue, zero Grossing countries for either. Ads plus remove-ads; there is no IAP meta being built at all.

Nebula Studio — Splash Buster's bracket moved to 500k+, purchases in the catalogue up to $99.99, and Grossing still empty on day 50. GOGO! Blast is the same at 43 countries. A portfolio spread over 38–43 countries and not a single country in the revenue chart — and against that, reviews doubling to 3,462 a day looks worse, not better.

ASMR Satisfy: House Deep Clean (Amazuro) — 1M+ installs, 24 countries and AR #6 today, no purchases in the catalogue whatsoever. Pure ads, and the ceiling is known in advance.

3D Bubble Match (Gloryway, 146 days) — 1M+ installs, IAP up to $64.99, 10 countries, Grossing zero. For a 146-day-old title with a million installs that is not "too early", it is a verdict on the monetisation.

Block Out! (Grand Games, Android, 7 days) — 1,114 reviews a day, IAP up to $99.99, nothing in Grossing. On day seven that is normal; it is worth looking again in a week — the iOS version of the same title has been feeding the studio for nearly a year.

Install brackets that moved in 24 hours

Fashion Arena — 100k+, Splash Buster — 500k+, Twist Colors and Steal a Eggs — 50k+. None of the four sits in Grossing in a single country. The volume is there, the receipt is not.