Superplus Games founders Kalle Jyly (left) and
Superplus Games founders Kalle Jyly (left) and Aarni Linnakangas.
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Superplus Games raises $4.7 million to bring player-versus-player competition to casual gamers

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Finland is still a hotbed for mobile games. The latest proof of that is Superplus Games, which has raised $4.7 million to bring more player-versus-player competition to casual gamers.

The idea of making casual games more competitive sounds like a contradiction, as casual players aren’t similar to the most competitive gamers. But Helsinki-based Superplus Games already has a success story in its mobile action game Hills of Steel. This physics-based tank battle game has more than 39 million downloads since 2017. And it isn’t a hardcore affair.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. 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.