This is no BS gaming podcast 2.5 gamers -🏨 My Perfect Hotel Meets Merge: Decoding Hotel Legacy by Century Games
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
Gossip Harbor is now the fourth-highest-grossing game on the planet — behind only Royal Match, Honor of Kings, and Whiteout Survival. The merge category the crew has been covering for years is bigger and more stable than ever, and Century Games just showed exactly how you stack another winner on top of your portfolio.
We break down Hotel Legacy by Century Games (of Tasty Travels fame), using it as a lens on the whole merge category. They recap the state of merge (Gossip Harbor at ~$95M/month and still climbing, Tasty Travels, Travel Town, Flambe, Seaside Escape), walk Hotel Legacy’s board and its standard-but-polished feature set (three LiveOps systems, bubble offers, generators, the min-max storing loop), and dig into the genuinely puzzling part: the winning My Perfect Hotel / Last Asylum creative concept that’s driving installs isn’t actually in the game yet.
The lesson: you stack merge games by shipping essentially the same game with a new theme, then testing creatives at scale until you find what to build next.
Chapters
00:00 The state of merge — Gossip Harbor is #4 globally
05:00 The revenue picture — $95M/month and climbing
06:46 Hotel Legacy enters at #15 — 50K/day, all tier-one
09:00 The “six merge games” player behavior theory
10:06 Walking the board — LiveOps, bubble offers, min-maxing
17:00 The mystery — the winning creative isn’t in the game
17:42 The creatives — My Perfect Hotel, Last Asylum, 500 in 30 days
27:16 How to stack a merge game on your portfolio
