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As the year 2023 came to a close, the puzzle and riddle game category continued to captivate the minds of European users. Let's delve into the performance of the top five games in this genre, as captured by Sensor Tower's comprehensive data.
Brain Test: Tricky Puzzles from UNICO STUDIO showed a notable increase in downloads, climbing from 190K in late September to a peak of over 400K in the final week of December. Weekly active users followed a similar upward trend, starting at 1.08M and reaching nearly 1.5M by year's end.
Lion Studios Plus' title, Family Tree! - Logic Puzzles, experienced a decrease in downloads throughout the quarter, from 218K to just under 30K. The weekly active users mirrored this downturn, dipping from 267K to 128K.
The game Flashback: Tricky Fun Riddles by Radiant Cat Studio saw a significant swell in downloads, with a notable spike to 351K in early October, followed by a gradual decline to 162K by the end of December. Its active users peaked at 527K in the same week of October, closing the quarter at 384K.
Another Radiant Cat Studio creation, Braindom 3: Smart, Brain Games, maintained relatively stable downloads around the 20K mark, with weekly active users hovering between 50K and 59K throughout the quarter.
Finally, UNICO STUDIO's Brain Test 4: Tricky Friends saw its downloads grow impressively from 104K to 355K. Active users showed an even more striking increase, from 615K to over 1.1M by the quarter's end.
For more insights into the performance of puzzle and riddle games, Sensor Tower offers an extensive analysis and data tools to understand the trends shaping the mobile app landscape.