

Those who mourn the death of “ app discovery” generally blame it on the fact that the only real means of amassing a user base is through paid user acquisition, and since very large, very rich developers can afford to spend egregious amounts of money buying outsized levels of attention, smaller developers simply can’t compete. Interestingly, the game never attained a lofty position on the Top Downloaded chart, even at launch: it debuted in the upper 70s and has since declined to the 200s (US / iPhone / Overall): The game has more-or-less consistently held a Top 50 Grossing position overall since then:

The game is apparently the third in the Gardenscapes series (behind Gardenscapes and Gardenscapes 2) and was released globally on Thursday, August 25th, reaching a Top 50 Grossing position (US / iPhone / Overall) about 10 days later, in early September. Gardenscapes – New Acres is a casual game developed by Russian studio Playrix that combines elements of Match 3 gameplay with city building.
