Core Games

Core Games: Free-to-play Mobile Gaming

A game development studio and publisher creating casual and hyper-casual mobile games with over 50 million downloads combined, including Space Frontier and Castle Crash.

What is Core Games?

Core Games is an American video game development studio and publisher based in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 2012 by industry veterans John Smith and Jane Wilson, Core Games focuses on developing free-to-play casual and hyper-casual games for mobile devices.

Core Games is best known for their hit titles Space Frontier and Castle Crash. Space Frontier is a sci-fi themed base building and resource management game with over 30 million downloads worldwide. Players build and expand a space station, gather resources, craft items, and explore alien planets. Castle Crash is a physics-based destroyer game where players use a catapult to demolish castles. With over 20 million downloads, it continues to have an active player base years after initial launch.

Other popular Core Games titles include Fruit Pop Saga, Beach Restaurant, and Star Hockey. Their games are available on iOS and Android platforms and target mainstream casual gamers. Core Games has developed an expertise around game mechanics that promote repeat play and virality to maximize player retention and monetization through in-app purchases and rewarded video ads.

As a leading publisher in the hyper-casual games segment, Core Games has had 6 games surpass 20 million downloads and continues to release new titles on a frequent basis. Still run by its founding team, Core Games has over 50 employees working on game design, programming, art and animation, data analytics, and community management to support its growing portfolio of titles and players.

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