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With Blackstone’s backing, Murka stakes a claim in social casino games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 4 min

In the saturated social casino game market, battling the big brands is tough. But the Kyiv, Ukraine-based Murka has undertaken this challenge with some success. Through growth that accelerated this year, Murka has become a top-10 player with 5 million monthly active users.

While this is a tiny share of the $6.2 billion social casino game market, Murka has grown 44.6% this year as users play more during the pandemic, thanks in part to slot machine games that are more like role-playing games, according to analysts and the company.

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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.