Logler.com First Casual Game Awards

Best Casual Game Of The Year

Most Successful Franchise

Mystery Case Files – three titles in one year! Impressive results! Huntsville, Prime Suspects and Ravenhearst brought the fame for the hidden object genre and helped a lot of people all around the world to kill their spare time =) Great Franchise! As runner-up we can see only Diner Dash series but they are far from MCF. Let’s look what the 2007 will bring.

Most Successful Developer/Publisher:

The first place is really expected - BFG are standing behind of most successful franchise MCF and huge single games as Travelogue:360 Paris, Hidden Expedition: Titanic and Mystic Inn. At the second position we have a lot of companies with 4 games in Top 10, really big names here: Playfirst, Sandlot Games,  PopCap Games,  MumboJumbo, Oberon Games, IWin. At the third we have very promising team: LDW Software with 3 games, their franchise Virual Villagers is a brave decision and uncommon game for the market which became a real hit among players.

Most Popular Genres:

We decided to sum up most popular games by two criterias: by number of games entered Top 10 to reflect the size of genre and by points games of this genre earned in our Top to reflect overall quality and popularity of the genre (if more than 1 game entered Top 10)

1) by number of games entered Top 10 in the last year:

1 - match3
2 - time management
3 - hidden object and card& board
4 - sim/strategy
5 - shoot3 (aka marble popper)
6 - adventure
7 - object inlay (aka brain teaser) and word

Match3 continues to be the largest genre here, on the second we have Diner Dash style genre, hidden object and card&board are also in Top 3, but let’s look to the more correct rating:

2) by points earned:

1 - hidden object - 924
2 - time management - 770
3 - sim/strategy - 488
4 - match3 - 255
5 - adventure - 94
6 - shoot3 - 92
7 - card&board - 87
8 - object inlay - 19
9 - word - 6

Here we can see the real reflection of the last year:  Hidden Object and Time Management games are ruling player’s minds and will continue doing it in the future. Sim/strategy games like Villagers or Fish Tycoon are hot right now too. Despite of the biggest size, match3 genre isn’t so popular as hidden object and time management and even was forced out by less casual sim games.

Based on our Concluding Top's data we can name best games by genres, so fasten your sit belts, fanfare, drum rolls, we begin:

Best Hidden Object Game

Let the super-sleuthing begin in this sequel to the MCF smash hit series! Prime Suspects are absolute veterans of the Global Top 10: 43 weeks in Top, second place in concluding chart and three first places in Top! Great achievements and a good goal to beat by other MCF series games!

Best Time Management Game

Let's get cookin' as you help Jill make her bakery dreams come true! Cooking, serving, rushing where every where this years! It's hard to remember all heroe's names, but we can say one thing with sure: Jill has beaten Flo! Best Casual Game of the Yeat! Will we see a sequel? Sandlot?

Best Sim Game

Guide your villagers in learning how to survive in this real-time simulation game! Virtual Villagers proved that unusal game format can become industry standard with lots of fans, sequels and clones. Viva LDW Software! We'd like to wish the best to addicting Villagers series!

Best Match3 Game

Come back to an underwater paradise of classic match-gaming excitement! Match3 games had completely lost their crown last year, but Big Kahuna Reef 2 is the best game in this overcloned game genre.

Best Card and Board Game

Become a billionaire! How to create a popular game? Simple! Bring old-school fun on a new level. TikGames did and won!

Best Word Game

A family favorite for generations of gamers! Neverdying theme gained second life on our displays! Everybody Scrabbling!

Best Shoot3 (aka Marble Popper) Game

It's time to return to Ancient Egypt to defeat Set! Entered Top 10 on 6th place (week 30), Luxor 2 gained top position on 32nd week (1st position it 2 weeks!), but then was quickly displaced by stronger competitors with their sim (Virtual Villagers) and find that item (MCF: Prime Suspects) action. Luxor 2 is a great sequel, i enjoyed playing and hitting those colourful balls. Great music, great graphics and great results! Best Marble Popper Game Award!