But then I got a newsletter from Boomzap, who publish new games like I Love Finding MORE Pups & Faircroft’s Antiques: The Mountaineer’s Legacy.Īnd I was astounded to discover that this market is still alive in 2022.
Yep, I remember that, I thought nostalgically the other day.
So what we’re talking about here is PC downloadable casual games that used to cost $20, back in 2006 or so. Some publishers and developers branded themselves specifically as casual game companies, like Big Fish Games, PopCap Games, and MumboJumbo.” In the mid-2000s, more sites specialized in game hosting and publishing, such as Gamesville and RealNetworks. The Wikipedia page explains: “Casual games started to flourish online in the 1990s along with the rise of the World Wide Web, with card games and board games available from paid services like AOL and Prodigy, and then from web portals, like Yahoo! Games and Microsoft's Gaming Zone. I fear that some people reading this newsletter wouldn’t have been around for the pre-smartphone ‘PC casual games’ boom. This thumbnail is from iWin’s YouTube page, full of the latest casual game trailers. PC casual games - somehow still a market! How? Let’s take a look at PC casual games - still a thing in 2022?! (Next links round-up will be on Monday, btw - this newsletter doesn’t have one, so feel free to skip if this isn’t your jam.)įirst for the ‘summer holiday’ series, a newsletter theme we’ve been sitting on for a little while, because I don’t think it has broad commercial takeaway. But as noted at the end of the last newsletter, we’re using this as an opportunity to try out some alternative newsletter subjects, in ‘relax time’.
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