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This is no BS gaming podcast 2.5 gamers -🎮 Full Steam Ahead: The Q1 Steam games that should hit mobile

Sharing actionable insights, dropping knowledge from our day-to-day User Acquisition, Game Design, and Ad monetization jobs. We are definitely not discussing the latest industry news, but having so much fun! Let’s not forget this is a 4 am conference discussion vibe, so let’s not take it too seriously.

The Team:

Jakub Remia⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠r- Game design consultant

Felix Braberg⁠ – Ad monetization consultant

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Matej Lančarič – User Acquisition & Creatives consultant

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Summary

Mobile has a creativity problem — and Steam keeps proving it. In this quarter’s Full Steam Ahead, the crew scans the top Q1 Steam releases to find the genre mashups and fresh cores that could translate into mobile’s next wave of hits.

The throughline: all the creativity got outsourced to Steam. Mobile’s job is to figure out how to execute these cores for a wider audience.

Chapters

00:00 Full Steam Ahead — the setup and method
04:00 Dialogue — the cyberpunk waifu dial-puzzler
08:40 Raccoon coin-pusher roguelike + Screechy Scratch
12:00 The proven sims — car co-op, video store, Quarantine Zone
16:24 Star Rupture and the factory-building core
19:20 Super Battle Golf — real-time PvP chaos
22:45 Mewgenics — the Binding of Isaac creators’ cat roguelite
26:00 Slay the Spire 2 hits $140M — the deck-builder case