Century Video games’ glacial technique title Whiteout Survival has reached a mega income milestone, surpassing $400 million in below one 12 months.
The apocalyptic app landed on cell shops on February 12 2023 and has amassed nearly 30 million downloads within the 11 months since, with the largest share of gamers poised within the US. At 19%, they account for roughly 5.7 million downloads, greater than double Japan’s second-place 7% of downloads, or 2.1 million, based mostly on AppMagic knowledge.
Turkey presently rounds out the highest three with 6% of downloads and is adopted by South Korea, Germany and Brazil.
Survive and thrive
Properly on its method to half a billion already, Whiteout Survival has additionally discovered its largest spender within the US, over-representative of the set up determine. 33% of the $400 million generated so far has come from US gamers, that means over $130 million from this one area alone.
South Korea marks the second-biggest territory for spending, having contributed 20% of earnings ($80 million) while representing solely 5% of worldwide downloads. In the meantime, Japan’s 7% of income contribution ($28 million) mirrors its installs precisely.
Technique video games continued making huge revenues in 2023 with the style proving one of many largest around the globe. In reality, 4 technique titles reached the ever-coveted $1 billion milestone in 2023, Age of Origins amongst them, though Newzoo suggests technique video games seem like waning in yearly income, significantly as a result of style’s reliance on a small-but-monetised playerbase.
A cool historical past
Since its founding in 2010, Century Video games has grown into a global firm with over 1,100 staff around the globe, with loads of expertise in crafting video games on cell and Roblox. Household Farm Journey, Dragonscapes Journey, Idle Courier and Frozen Metropolis are amongst its catalogue, the latter being one thing of a predecessor to Whiteout Survival as one other snowy survival recreation.
Past video games themselves, Century can be exploring the chances supplied by VR, XR, and everybody’s present favorite AI, with a dedication to “shaping the way forward for gaming”. Given Whiteout Survival’s success up to now, it seems this developer’s effectively on its method to reaching that.
