Viral games: Daily ritual

Cases
16
Median Spread Score
43
Most started on
Open web50%
First post to peak
86 days

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Hamster Kombat

63
Hamster Kombat’s March 25 access announcement artwork, with the hamster character and WE STARTING text.

100M players

Wordle

63
Wordle #196 solved in four guesses: the green, yellow and grey gridOpen

2M players

Connections

60
Very excited to share the game I've been working on, Connections! I've loved making it, and hope you enjoy playing. Huge thanks to Heidi Erwin @oatmemo, Bella Virgilio, and the @NYTGames team 😍🥳

20M players

HQ Trivia

57
Big Human design mockups of HQ Trivia gameplay, results and the leaderboard.

2M downloads a month

PEAK

56
Steam :: PEAK :: WE FINALLY RELEASED PEAK...

2M sold

Taylordle

52
Holy Swift

Poeltl

43
Mathematically Optimizing an NBA Player Guessing Game - The Spax

Worldle

43
Okay, Wordle is fun, but what about WorLdle? 🌍 Everyday, guess a new country! :D Worldle #3 X/6 🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜

2M players

Catizen

37
Catizen’s public wipe-test launch artwork, March 7 at 12 PM UTC.

$26M revenue

Lewdle

34
The most successful spin-offs are those that are a ‘unique variation’ on the format, rather than ‘carbon-copy clones’, says one professor. Photograph: Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images

880K players

TapSwap

29
Official Tappy Town launch artwork showing its TapFlix building.

18M players

Heardle

28
Heardle

1M players

Tiny Glade

27
Official Steam artwork and screenshots of Tiny Glade.

616K sold

Immaculate Grid

26
Immaculate Grid Is The Game Sweeping Through MLB Clubhouses

200K players

Waffle

24
Waffle: How James Robinson Built the Swap-Word Hit

475K players

Nerdle

14
The story of nerdle: the first popular math wordle

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