AppMagic’s 10th Anniversary Quiz and Report: How Well Do You Remember the Last Decade? 🥳 Ten years ago, five people started building DataMagic, the tool you now know as AppMagic. Today, we’re a team of 100 across multiple countries, celebrating our 10th anniversary as part of the Sensor Tower family. You’re all invited to the party. To celebrate, we’ve created our first-ever Anniversary Quiz: a trip through ten years of mobile industry milestones, unexpected hits, highlights from AppMagic’s own journey, and moments you’d almost forgotten. The rise of Pokémon GO and Clash Royale, the industry’s biggest-ever $68.7B acquisition, and yes, Skibidi Toilet, Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen, and 67… How much do you remember? 👀 Take the quiz to find out, then unlock your anniversary gift: our full 2016–2026 market report, with over 70 slides continuing the journey through: 🔝 The top games and apps of 2016–2026 and how the rankings evolved ⭐ The biggest releases, future hitmakers, and major acquisitions 🎬 The memes, stories, and vibes that defined each year Thank you for trusting us and being part of our story. Here’s to everything we’ve achieved together and everything still ahead 💛 Take the quiz and unlock the report

Top 10 Releases of 2026 That Reached $1M in IAP Revenue Which mobile games reach $1M in IAP revenue the fastest? To answer this question, we analysed 158 games released in 2026 that have already reached this milestone. Here are some of the patterns we spotted: 🧩 Puzzle games take 2x longer to reach $1M than RPGs, but have 2.15x higher median lifetime revenue. 🌍 South Korea- and Japan-led titles reached $1M the fastest, while North America-led games generated the highest combined lifetime revenue. 🎥 IP-based games reached the milestone more than 2.4x faster than original titles, but their median lifetime revenue was only 30% higher. Discover more patterns that could help you reach that coveted $1M milestone faster in our latest article.

Arrow Puzzle: From Peaking Downloads to Peaking Revenue Arrow Puzzle games hit a peak of 82M monthly downloads in June 2026, driven primarily by three leaders that still dominate the top free charts: 1️⃣ Arrows – Puzzle Escape by Lessmore (acquired by Miniclip): 137M lifetime installs, or 24% of the market. 2️⃣ Amaze GO! by Learnings: 102M downloads, or 18%. 3️⃣ Arrow Puzzle: Tap Puzzle Games by Easybrain (acquired by Miniclip): 87M downloads, or 15%. By September, downloads had cooled to 53M. Yet our Advanced Search shows that 170+ new puzzle games featuring the keyword ‘arrow’ launched in October, notably fewer than the nearly 520 released in June. And no wonder! While downloads have slowed, revenue is peaking. In September, monthly IAP revenue hit $2.7M 🤯 CubeAway – 3D Puzzle from GOODROID, captured 40% of the month's revenue and overtook Point Out: Color Escape Puzzle by Lion Studios. Maze Out! – Tap Puzzle from Grand Games followed in third with a 15% share. Will new releases embrace the Hybridcasual Puzzle approach and push the revenue peak even higher? 🤔 Let’s keep an eye on it! Save the top 10 Arrow Puzzle games to be the first one to know.