MINMIX DATA LAB
Weekly Game Report
Reading the game market with review and chart data, every week. Per-game deep dives and global · country reports — one story at a time.
📈 Weekly Trend 4📝 Editor's Note 2🔬 Deep Dive 15🌐 Global 1🇰🇷 Korea 1🇺🇸 USA 1🇯🇵 Japan 1
📊 Latest · 🔬 Deep Dive · 2026-W38Three idle games never leave Korea's chart — and never cross the border eitherMapleStory Idle, CookieRun: Tower and Lucky Defense were inside Korea's top 15 at every one of five readings. The same three never appear on the US or Japanese charts.🇰🇷 15 of 15 cells🇺🇸🇯🇵 0 of 30🇰🇷 CookieRun 2nd → outside 15📝 Editor's Note
📝 Editor's Note · 2026-W33How games make money — a revenue map from 12 deep dives📝 Editor's Note · 2026-W32Editor's Note: where to bet content this week
📈 Weekly trend
📈 Weekly Trend · 2026-W38Korea's #1 comes from outside: three different games in four weeks📈 Weekly Trend · 2026-W36Whiteout took #1 back, then handed it straight back again📈 Weekly Trend · 2026-W34All nine cells went down — not over a week, but over fifteen hours📈 Weekly Trend · 2026-W33The week the walls fell: Whiteout Survival hits #1 grossing in Korea
🔬 Per-game deep dives
🔬 Deep Dive · 2026-W38Kingshot deep dive: the publisher kept its seats, one game slipped out🔬 Deep Dive · 2026-W38Pokémon GO deep dive: three countries rose in the same week🔬 Deep Dive · 2026-W32Blue Archive deep dive: players wrote ‘gacha’ as a complaint🔬 Deep Dive · 2026-W32NIKKE deep dive: even the #1-rated game cracked this week🔬 Deep Dive · 2026-W33Gossip Harbor deep dive: hook with story, open with energy🔬 Deep Dive · 2026-W33Candy Crush deep dive: a 13-year-old game still near the top🔬 Deep Dive · 2026-W33Free Fire deep dive: the real champion the West overlooks🔬 Deep Dive · 2026-W33Royal Match deep dive: grown on ads, torn down by ads🔬 Deep Dive · 2026-W33MONOPOLY GO! deep dive: the most active game isn't gacha🔬 Deep Dive · 2026-W33Whiteout Survival deep dive: it beat gacha on revenue, but satisfaction is dead last🔬 Deep Dive · 2026-W32Arknights deep dive: low heat, high satisfaction — and Endfield lands in Japan🔬 Deep Dive · 2026-W32Epic Seven deep dive: the real reason its rating fell the hardest this week🔬 Deep Dive · 2026-W32Genshin deep dive: the only one of nine gacha whose recent rating rose🔬 Deep Dive · 2026-W32Zenless deep dive: why the game the world is touching makes no money
🌐 Global & country reports
🇰🇷 Korea · 2026-W32Land of Lineage: Korea's #1 grossing is now idle and survival🇺🇸 USA · 2026-W32Zero gacha in the US top 15 — it's all match, merge and survival🇯🇵 Japan · 2026-W32Gacha's homeland, Japan — half the top 15 is now Western survival🌐 Global · 2026-W32The Zenless paradox: this week's hottest game is also cooling the fastest
🔬 Per-game deep dives and 🌐 global · 🇰🇷🇺🇸🇯🇵 country reports — because what trends, and what makes money, differs by country and by game.
MinMix · Unofficial fan report · not affiliated with any game company. Google metrics are estimates; Apple figures cite official charts (source: Apple App Store).