This Wildly Hyped App Is Universally Despised with Numbers That Are Artificially Inflated
Who hasn’t played an online game, such as Duolingo or Archero, and been accosted by ads for the despicable Royal Match game? Dream Games, the Istanbul-based creator of Royal Match, was founded in 2019 and has raised upwards of $468 million in investments, with a current value of $2.75 BILLION. Supposedly, it has made more than $1.1 billion and has been downloaded more than 180 million times.
However, with reported monthly active users of 5.3 million in 2022 and 13 million in 2023, Reddit users report that the game is full of bots, and the ads alone produce cringe in most casual observers. The Dream Games company spends millions on advertising, and reviews are mostly dire, such as this one from Common Sense Media:
“Rigged game
This game has a fairly simple premise, but it is definitely rigged. After it hooks the player in with a number of simple levels, the levels then become quite difficult to beat. The temptation is then to spend money on the power-ups and boosters and once you begin that process, the levels become almost impossible to win. In addition, to complete a room, you have to beat up to 15 levels for one addition. The reason I finally decided to delete the game is I used 20 lives without spending money and not…
