"Creepy" This type of game and its Statistics

BigDave

Creepy get massiv traffic of an average of 2000 installs a day.
It is also one of my main revenue sources right now but still it doesn't bring many conversions from interstitial pop ups/videos and sells almost no in-apps. Also people deinstall the game most likely at the same day as the deinstall rate matches the install rate.

Its this type of game. You play it, you finish it you can deinstall it.
And thats fine I wanted that good feeling of finishing a game.

But just to put things into perspective here some statistics.

Weekly Admob Impressions:

Monthly Installs:

Monthly Deinstalls:

So once I am finished with my new game the Pixel Mage I will go back and add some extra campaign as for what happened before the actual game.

Right now I have the options to donate either 1.99 4.99 or 9.99 and it creates minimal revenue.
I got great success selling in-apps in my other game Human Harvest. I didn't even label what the purchase do there I just showed them the aliens they can buy and curiosity triggered the purchases. But donation really doesn't seem to work.

NNterprises

Thanks for the insight and benchmarking information so we can get more of a real idea of how things go, and we all understand we don't make billions off of Flappy Bird games daily.

PhilipCC

@BigDave This kind of intel is invaluable. It makes us think about the paths we choose to go down before we commit to a strategy, but now we can be armed with some real data. You have tested the water and have the experience. Thanks for sharing it.

BigDave

I will add some extra missions as premium content after the game has offcialy ended.
hopefuly this way its not like get only half of the game and rest paid but more there is extra content.

I could see it selling well as most comments are refering to more content.
Now the main thing is to make it live up to the spirit but still be somehow refreshing.

I though about playing as the female commander you could only hear so far.
Maybe how she activated him in the first place.

Having her have less health and has to find a gun first also limited ammo or using the enviroment self to kill em or another ability all pretty rough.

So searching for something now

GreenfroggGames

That sounds like a good plan @BigDave

mhedges

Super insightful, @BigDave . Thanks for sharing.

Question: which platform do you fare better on, assuming you have the same or similar number of apps deployed per OS?

BigDave

@mhedges
bah most downlaods are on android ios is minimal all my games together do daily 200-300 downlaods

BigDave

android i sum up quiete a lot from pewdiepug, orcs, creepy

my main revenue turned from coming from chartboost to admob.
Admob banner outperform the chartboost interstitial money since this year.
Last 2 years it was all coming from inter. chart.

BigDave

Its enough money to keep me going but also to less to throw a party yet

mhedges

Refreshing to see the screenshots in German, BTW. Ich studierte Deutsche am die Universitat. About 25 years ago, that is . Mochtest du nach fete gehen? Excuse the umlauts, as my keyboard is set up for US Int'l.

BigDave

@mhedges
Alright I get what you mean but its definitely a bit rusty.

iamcartez

How are you getting installs on Android? I'm failing to increase Android installs but I'm able to get iOS..

BigDave

@iamcartez

i don't know I think i manoeuvred some from pug to orcs and got an own base of users there which then tried creepy. Because I linked this way

pug -> orcs -> creepy -> orcs