According to Japan’s DeNA (TYO:2432) and Cygames [1] have announced that the social card battle game Rage of Bahamut for Android smartphones hit number one on Google Play’s top grossing chart in the US this week.
It’s interesting to see a game from the card battle genre find success like this overseas, as this type of game was perhaps only really proven in Japan so far. DeNA’s representative director and president, Isao Moriyasu, spoke on this point:
Rage of Bahamut demonstrates that Japanese developers’ expertise in social games can be applied effectively overseas … The success that the title has achieved also shows that a browser-based game can generate a remarkable average revenue per user in the West with the right game design and the savvy in introducing apps to the marketplace.
Rage of Bahamut currently sits in in the number two position on the top grossing list (behind Live Holdem Poker Pro), but it also ranked high in Sweden (second), Canada (sixth), and the Netherlands (seventh).
It’s billed as a fantasy adventure game where you collect and battle men, gods, and demons. Apparently it has been given a bit of a Western design twist, in comparison to the Japanese original. I confess I have yet to try out this game myself, but I’m looking forward to checking it out.
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