ByteDance’s Ohayoo has published more than 150 games with 500 million downloads

Ohayoo is the new kid on the block in Chinese games. The company is a division of ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, and it has published more than 150 games since 2019. Ohayoo’s games more than 500 million downloads, and eight games have hit No. 1 on the Chinese free game list.

That’s a pretty spectacular result in games, and one that I wasn’t aware of until recently. The company isn’t known well in the West, as the company hasn’t focused much on press to date, said Ohayoo’s Yufan Wang in an interview with GamesBeat. But it’s worth knowing, because Ohayoo is helping casual and hypercasual game developers break into the Chinese market, which is the biggest in the world. And it has natural synergy with social media networks like TikTok.