River Game HK
For mobile strategy and RPG gamers who prefer fast-paced progression, social alliance competition, and kingdom-building themes.
Known forTop Heroes: Kingdom Saga
Top Heroes: Kingdom SagaFor mobile strategy and RPG gamers who prefer fast-paced progression, social alliance competition, and kingdom-building themes.
Top Heroes: Kingdom SagaDelivering fast-paced strategy experiences through innovative merge-to-upgrade mechanics. Focused on engaging mobile gamers with competitive social play.
Target audience
Portfolio
Free 2Last updated
Top Heroes: Kingdom Saga
v1.99.11
3mo ago
Primary focus
Mobile strategy games · Merge-to-upgrade mechanics
Scale
indie
Target audience
Mobile strategy and RPG gamers who prefer fast-paced progression, social alliance competition, and kingdom-building themes.
With 17 releases in the last 6 months across only 2 apps, the publisher maintains an extremely high update frequency to support their live-service titles.
2 apps analysed
Strong social/alliance stickiness with global translation tools
Merge to upgrade! An innovative strategy war game! Join with us in this Top War
Distinct sci-fi military aesthetic
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Positive apps
2
Neutral / mixed
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Negative apps
48/100
Avg sentiment score
Last War is the primary threat in the 'hybrid-casual' strategy space, utilizing high-frequency updates (8 in 6 months) and a similar 'mini-game to 4X' conversion funnel.
Strategic outlook coming soon.
What fed this analysis
A dominant force in the survival-strategy genre with a unique environmental 'temperature' mechanic that adds a layer of urgency Top Heroes lacks.
The legacy benchmark for RPG/SLG hybrids, boasting a massive installed base and a highly refined hero-battle system.
The gold standard for 'infinite zoom' map technology and real-time strategy movement in the 4X space.
The pioneer of the 'puzzle-ad' strategy hybrid, maintaining high relevance through extreme update velocity (23 releases in 6 months).
A direct mechanical rival that also uses 'Merge to upgrade' as its core unit-leveling system, but applies it to a Tower Defense (TD) framework.
A genre-mashing peer that uses Match-3 combat to drive 4X progression.
A massive threat to the 'Hero RPG' side of Top Heroes, featuring industry-leading art direction and open-world exploration.
A recent high-quality entrant that shifts the strategy focus from land-based kingdoms to naval fleets.
Occupies the same 'Strategy + Tower Defense' niche as Kingdom Guard but with a gritty, high-fidelity zombie aesthetic.
A breakout success in the 'ultra-casual RPG' space that simplifies the hero-growth loop to a single button.
