![]() For example, in Pokémon GO you always see which Pokémon pops up on the map, and then you can already decide if you’ll try to catch it or not. As a player, you don’t necessarily want to waste spell energy on catching something you already have because duplicates only give a minor amount of progress to your Registry Rank. This system introduces some frustrating gameplay elements because often items are duplicates of something you already have. Each foundable category has its own icon, and players never know which of the category’s items it is before tapping it and going into the core action layer. Players walk around and then foundable icons pop up on the map. The primary source of finding foundables is the basic task of exploring the world around you, which is the core of all the location-based games. When recovering duplicates, it gives players a much smaller experience increase to that category’s Registry Rank progress.įoundable Registry There are multiple ways in the game to find foundables: 1) Exploring the real world and finding them on the map. ![]() Players can also find duplicates of foundables they’ve already collected. Profession scrolls are a currency that is used to level up your character’s skills, and Runestones are consumable items that are used in Fortress battles to receive specific types of foundables. When reaching a new rank, players receive a “Treasure Trunk,” which include rewards like Profession Scrolls and Runestones. Each category has its own Registry Rank, which players then level up by collecting foundables from that specific category. Players have a Registry of foundable items they have recovered and those they still need to find.įoundables have different categories, for example, Dark Arts or Magizoology items. The simplified core loop of Harry Potter: Wizards UniteĪs mentioned before, the main goal for players is to find foundables. They’re tasked with finding and retrieving those magic items called “ foundables” from the world to ensure that the magic world remains a secret. Players step into the shoes of a witch or wizard and join the ranks of the Statute of Secrecy Task Force. The premise in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is that a mysterious event called “The Calamity” has unleashed chaos, scattering magic items across the world and risking their discovery by muggles (non-magical people). Harry Potter: Wizards Unite grossing and download ranks graph US iOS The Core Loop The game’s still in the early phases of its lifecycle, but the start definitely hasn’t been a similar mega success as Pokémon GO was for Niantic. ![]() However, since then it’s experienced a slow decline in ranks. Harry Potter: Wizards Unite has been out for a couple of weeks, debuting at the top of the download ranks and around top 60 grossing in US iOS, jumping to the top 20 grossing by the following day. In this blog post, we’ll take a quick peek into the game, how the gameplay loop works, what are the monetization sinks in the game and how it compares on a feature level to other titles in the genre. Games like Jurassic World Alive from Ludia or The Walking Dead: Our World from Next Games have been able to get a small share of the market but are still nowhere near Pokémon GO.īut now we have a new entrant into the space, as Niantic finally released their follow-up title to Pokémon GO backed by another super popular IP: Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. Pokémon GO alone generates a whopping 93% of the subgenre’s IAP revenues on iOS in the US. Market share of AR/Location-based games in top 500 grossing US iOS But in terms of revenues, it remains the undisputed king of the genre. How about inside the subgenre? How is revenue in AR/Location-based games divided between different games? Ever since Pokémon GO’s launch we’ve seen multiple games that have tried to get a piece of its huge pie. Market share of top 10 subgenres in US iOS For example, using Gamerefinery’s Market Share tool, we can see that it only has around a 2.6% share of IAP revenues in the US iOS market. The AR/Location-based game market is still a relatively small genre in the bigger picture of mobile gaming. But how does it fit in with Niantics own Pokémon GO and the rest of the competition? Now we have a follow up from Niantic in the form of Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. It was a phenomenon with visibility unmatched by any other mobile game thus far. Some games had made use of the technology before, but everything jumped to a whole new level when everyone across the world was chasing Pokémons. ![]() The AR/Location-based game market was pretty much born with the release of Pokémon GO back in the summer of 2016.
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