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ABC Runner

Year: 2021
System: Android, iOS
Developer: Umami Games (Riley Andersen, Mads Nørgaard Anthony and Lars Zilmer)
Players: Single, Scoreboard
Genres: Runner, Quiz
Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.UmamiGames.Scattergories / https://apps.apple.com/da-dk/app/abc-runner/id1535973778

START ABC running today and WIN, WIN, WIN! Compete in different categories and spell answers before your friends.

Are you a fast thinker? Are you the fastest speller out there? Can you beat your friends?

Start ABC running, today!

Umami Games is a recent startup creating variations on a handful of very simple hyper-casual game concepts, with the aim of creating 150 new games per year. The aim there is to hope to get picked out by the app store algorithms to get a hit and then monetize it. This strategy succeeded with ABC Runner, which got popular on TikTok and got 2,5 million downloads in a month. The actual game is a runner game where you need to answer simple quiz questions to reach the goal. It seems they’ve gone back on the 150 game goal for 2022 though, and are currently at just 13 games so far.


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