What is the Next Hot Game? 2014 version

Back in 2012, we wrote this:
http://darwinstheoryrocks.blogspot.com/search?q=what+is+next+hot+game

We thought that Temple Run would be the next hot game.  Well, we were right and wrong.  Temple Run did enjoy immense popularity.  Actually, up to now, people still play.  But it never reached the levels of PvZ or Angry Birds.

We never thought that it would be Candy Crush which would take over in 2012 and 2013.  Primarily because we thought, we saw both aesthetics and movements in other games, like Bejewelled for example, a PopCap game first made available early 2000.

We also found ourselves addicted to Candy Crush, even reaching level 250+, and sometimes still play.  We attribute it to Candy Crush's innovation and reinvention.  There is always something new.  Plus some levels are really challenging, some taking a week or 2 to finish.  We theorized before that Candy Crush would not be the favorite of Millenials.  It requires a lot of patience, repetition, and resiliency.   Early 2013, it was not surprising that the entire row of a night PAL flight from Cebu to Manila would have almost everyone playing Candy Crush.  It must have appealed to GenXers.


Late 2012, we also saw the emergence of Clash of Clans, at least in iOS.  Clash of Clans(CoC) is an MMO strategy game developed by SuperCell.  MMO stands for Massively Multiplayer Online Game.  We are not sure whether they coined that term or before the reported 8Million daily players.  Without a doubt, CoC is the hot game.  From a business perspective, SuperCell reported earnings of $892 Million, for 2013.  That is more than 2Million dollars a day of revenue!

We will write a separate (special??) blogpost on ClashofClans, as we already started to become addicted to it (now level 71).

Which leads us to our title question, what is the next hot game after Angry Birds, PvZ, Temple Run, Candy Crush, Clash of Clans?   Our answer is we don't know.  lol.

We actually predict (or maybe wish) that CoC would continue until 2015.  And the next Hot Game would start to surface in May/June 2015, which will peak in 2016.