Block Blast got pulled from Google Play, and everyone assumed it was catastrophic. It wasn't — DAU dipped from about 56M to 50M and stabilized. The real story is much more interesting: Block Blast has hit its scale ceiling on the core game, and their answer is to quietly turn the app into a games portal.

Jakub Remiar flies solo for a single-game Review Radar update on Block Blast, six months on from the original deep-dive. He covers the takedown's actual impact (minimal, and DAU had already peaked in March), the massive UA downscale (from ~30,000 creatives and 1.5M downloads/day in December to ~5,000 creatives and ~600K/day now — a downscale, not a decline), the arrival of Block Blast's first real competitor (Color Block Combo Blast from Chinese studio Flyers Technology, growing fast but on tier-2/tier-3 traffic with almost no US DAU), and the pivot that matters most: "More Games" has moved from a hidden settings menu into a full main-menu button, now housing eight fully-fledged games (Fruit Merge, Mahjong, Sudoku, and more) — the same playbook as the no-wifi offline-games portals. Plus Sensor Tower's ad-revenue estimate (~$22M/month, ahead of Vita Mahjong) and the standing Jakub-vs-Felix bet on whether Block Blast ever passes Garena Free Fire.The read: don't sleep on this game. The core has peaked, but the winter blitz is probably coming — and the portal play is the real evolution.

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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS00:00 Revisiting Block Blast — six months on

01:30 The takedown — how much damage did it actually do?

03:00 The first real competitor arrives

05:30 Why the competitor isn't a real threat (yet)

07:00 The massive UA downscale — 30K creatives to 5K

10:09 The pivot — "More Games" hits the main menu

14:00 $22M/month in ads and the Garena Free Fire bet

17:00 Has Block Blast peaked, or is the winter blitz coming?

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🟥🟩🟨🟦Did Block Blast finally peaked? And why they added 7 more minigames??? 👀

two &amp; a half gamers

🟥🟩🟨🟦Did Block Blast finally peaked? And why they added 7 more minigames??? 👀

two & a half gamers