The only game in this list that isn’t about the fish shooting, fight the landlord, or mahjong is Sohoo Poker at number 10.
JJ Doudizhu – essentially a collection of different types of casino and casual games (e.g., fish shooting, mahjong, fight the landlord) – is second.
The top dog in this space is Tencent’s Landlord Poker, which, despite its name, is not a poker game but instead all about fight the landlord (a popular Chinese card game). In other words, around 8-10% of games in CN’s top 500 grossing are casino games. The 5.5% revenue market share translates into 40-50 games in the top 500 grossing. On genre level, we can see that casino is the biggest non-mid-core genre in the market – e.g., 2.5 times bigger than puzzle. China, top 500 grossing, revenue market share, genre-level