Indie developer Bolt Creative strikes gold with “Pocket God” app

Bolt Creative announced today that its best-selling god simulator, Pocket God, has sold over three million units since release. We previously wrote a case study of Bolt Creative and how it made Pocket God into a perennial seller on the AppStore. Back In January, Bolt announced that it had crossed 2 million units sold.

Bolt is particularly proud of the milestone saying, “If you were to lay down three million great white sharks (with freaking laser beams of course) from nose to tail, they’d stretch from New York to London and back.” These sales numbers come just days after Bolt Creative released the new Pocket God comic, the first issue in a four issue miniseries.

“We can’t thank the fans enough for all their support, enthusiasm, fan sites, YouTube videos, suggestions for content, and everything else,” said Bolt Creative chief executive Dave Castelnuovo in San Francisco. See Industry Gamers for more.

Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.