Superstar Session: Hypercasual Games Under the Microscope: What Happened in 2020?
summary
GameAnalytics uses its benchmarks.plus dataset (about 2 billion monthly players and 100,000 tracked games) to compare platforms: iOS D7 retention ~25% vs Android ~21% overall, and for hypercasual roughly 21% iOS vs 14% Android (about 50% more players returning on iOS at D7). Android shows ~20% higher playtime and ~50% more sessions per day, while top-game average session length reaches ~30 minutes. Asia skews heavily Android with ~500 million more Android gamers and different seasonality and monetization patterns.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 10:40Playtime
- 12:13Session Count
- 14:37Opportunities
- 17:19Asia
- 18:58Metrics
- 22:09More metrics
- 23:13Sub genres
- 23:59Questions
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