Akupara Games
For mid-core indie game enthusiasts who value complex mechanics, atmospheric storytelling, and premium, ad-free experiences.
Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles
Snapshot
Who is Akupara Games?
Bringing high-concept indie titles to mobile audiences with a focus on strategic depth and narrative-driven experiences.
Target audience
Portfolio
Free 1Last updated
Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles
v1.2.813
6mo ago
Publisher DNA
What defines Akupara Games?
Publisher DNA
Primary focus
Premium indie games · strategic and narrative niches
Scale
indie
Target audience
Mid-core indie game enthusiasts who value complex mechanics, atmospheric storytelling, and premium, ad-free experiences.
Signature Patterns
- •Strict adherence to a paid/premium monetization model across the entire portfolio.
- •Focus on genre-bending strategic mechanics, such as dice-building or poker-based combat.
- •High production value in audio and visual design, often featuring atmospheric or retro aesthetics.
- •Targeting niche, mid-core audiences rather than broad casual demographics.
Portfolio momentum
Maintains a steady release cadence with 3 updates or launches in the last 6 months and 60% of the portfolio currently active.
Portfolio
What does Akupara Games ship?
Apps
16 apps analysed
Build a dice pool to purify Astrea's corruption and save the Star System.
Analysis in progress
Analysis in progress
Analysis in progress
Distributed across 11 markets, strongest in Europe.
Based on 3 of 16 apps with localized market data, more coverage rolling in as scans complete · last scanned .
Americas (3)
- Brazil3 / 3
- Mexico3 / 3
- United States3 / 3
Europe (6)
- France3 / 3
- Germany3 / 3
- Portugal3 / 3
- Spain3 / 3
- Italy2 / 3
›+1 more europe market
- Netherlands2 / 3
Asia-Pacific (2)
- Japan3 / 3
- South Korea3 / 3
Core markets (3/3 apps)
User Sentiment
How do users feel about their apps?
1
Positive apps
0
Neutral / mixed
0
Negative apps
62/100
Avg sentiment score
Rivals
Who does Akupara Games compete with?
The rivals identified
Nemeses(2)
Both apps target roguelike deck-building fans, competing for the same player time within the mobile strategy segment.
The primary rival in space survival, featuring near-identical core loops of resource management (fuel, oxygen, hull) and searching for a habitable world.
Contenders(7)
Both titles target the roguelike deckbuilder audience, competing for player time within the turn-based strategy category.
Both titles target the roguelike deckbuilder audience, competing for player time through turn-based card combat mechanics.
Both titles target the roguelike deck-building audience, competing for time spent in turn-based strategy combat.
Offers a highly atmospheric, narrative-driven space exploration and survival experience with a similar 'last hope' theme.
Both titles compete for the roguelike deckbuilder audience by replacing standard turn-based mechanics with specific card-sequencing systems.
Both titles target the roguelike deckbuilder audience, with Zoeti utilizing poker-based combat mechanics while Oddluck focuses on life-sim themed card management.
Both titles target the roguelike deckbuilding audience at an identical 7.99 dollar price point.
Same space(18)
This title targets the same dice-centric strategy audience by removing gacha elements in favor of skill-based combat.
This title competes for the same dungeon-strategy audience by focusing on tactical trap placement.
This app occupies the same poker-based combat niche as Zoeti but utilizes a freemium model.
It provides a vertical-orientation deck-building experience that prioritizes offline play for mobile convenience.
It challenges players with grid-based board manipulation and gear-focused progression within a roguelike structure.
An open-world space physics sandbox that captures the feeling of celestial movement and environmental interaction.
It replaces traditional card drawing with an elemental resource system to innovate on the roguelike deck-builder formula.
A minimalist text-based peer that shares the exact goal of finding a new home for human survivors through planetary evaluation.
It offers a classic dungeon-crawling roguelike experience with procedural levels and permadeath mechanics.
This title appeals to the same hardcore roguelike demographic by emphasizing complex skill combinations and deck-building mechanics.
This app focuses on tactical mastery through a fixed-deck system similar to the strategic depth found in the source app.
This app targets the same roguelike demographic by offering a similar offline, turn-based card combat experience.
It uses procedural dungeon generation to provide a similar roguelike deck-building experience to the source app.
This app uses drafting mechanics to build synergies, appealing to players who enjoy the strategic unit-scaling aspects of roguelikes.
This app expands the roguelike deck-builder genre by integrating grid-based tactical movement into the combat loop.
It appeals to the same high-intent strategy audience by emphasizing skill-based planning over random mechanics.
This title shares the turn-based RPG genre with Zoeti while providing a distinct accessibility-focused value proposition.
Users report: This app targets players who enjoy short, strategic roguelike deck-building sessions with a non-predatory monetization model.
New entrants(2)
A rising title focused on the resource harvesting and planetary colonization aspects of space travel.
A modern, high-fidelity evolution of physics-based space sims that pushes the boundaries of mobile exploration.
The Analyst's Read
The bottom line on Akupara Games
Bottom line
Akupara Games is a disciplined indie publisher successfully carving out a premium niche by porting mechanically deep titles to mobile. Their consistent 4.01★ weighted rating across a 100% paid portfolio demonstrates a sustainable model for high-quality, non-F2P gaming.
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What fed this analysis
- Apps analyzed:
- 5
- With full intel:
- 1
- With overview:
- 5
- Website scraped:
- yes
- Social presence:
- yes