Turkey’s Gram Games scored a big hit last year with 1010, a Tetris-like puzzle game with a clever twist that was downloaded more than 50 million times. And now it has another hit with Merged!, which has been downloaded more than 1 million times in its first week.
In Merged!, you try to match colored dice.
The new hit puts Istanbul-based Gram Games into the rarefied club of mobile game companies that have had two back-to-back hits, and it once again shows that, in the $30 billion global mobile game business, the rags-to-riches business fairy tale is still possible in mobile games.
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