World's Hardest Game Deluxe
34
Quality Score
Emerging
✍️ GetAppValue analysis
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World's Hardest Game Deluxe is an Android app from REDCAT GAMES in the Arcade category, currently rated 1.9★ across 788 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 34: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Arcade app, that means early traction worth watching. The full BU Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$500
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$437 – $1575
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$405 – $3644
per month
INDIE tier
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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$175K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $130K – $235K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
Synthetic estimate. Inputs: category complexity, file size, screen count, monetization layer, platform reach, age × team-size proxy. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-agency rate surveys. Full math + source list on /methodology.
Where the money goes
| 🧱 MVP baseline (design + 1-store ship) | +$28K |
| 📱 5 unique screens × $4.5K | +$22K |
| 💎 In-app purchase plumbing | +$9K |
| ⚙ Arcade complexity ×1.90 | +$53K |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$62K |
Total estimate
$175K
👥 Estimated audience size
155K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
7.7K
Daily active
1.9K
Synthetic estimate from ratings × category benchmarks. Calibrated against 2024-2026 mobile-attribution retention + DAU/MAU reports. Numbers are US-storefront-equivalent — true global audience can be 5-10× larger for international apps. Full math + source list on /methodology.
How we sized it
| 📲 Arcade engagement | ~200 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Arcade D30 retention | 5% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.25 |
DAU / MAU
25% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🤖
Native Android (Kotlin)
Medium confidence · 55%
Also possible
Flutter
Heuristic guess from app bundle size, category, store description signals, and release-date stack era. GetAppValue does not disassemble binaries — for binary-level certainty you would need an SDK intelligence tool or the manifest itself. Reasoning chain on the right. Full ruleset on /methodology.
Signals we read
| 🏷 Category context | Arcade |
| 📦 Tiny game bundle | → Native 2D engine |
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$500/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$426 – $993
12 months
$437 – $1.6K
24 months
$405 – $3.6K
Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Early-stage solo · 42/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierRevenue Strength
2.7
Product Quality
2.7
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
7.8
Operational Safety
7.0
Founder Strength
3.2
Monetization Maturity
5.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 1.94★ across 788 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: last update 337d ago — slow cadence.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — no material risk signals detected.
🎯 For competitors: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $9K-$16K.
Composite of 8 dimensions computed deterministically from public signals — no LLM, every score traces back to a measurable input. Default weights shown; "compete" / "acquire" / "invest" lenses re-weight without re-fetching.
Range:
💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 4 of 4 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Below-average rating (1.9★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Established app (7y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (788 ratings)METRIC | +$400 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- World's Hardest Game Deluxe
- Developer
- REDCAT GAMES
- Bundle ID
- com.redcatgames.whgde
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Arcade
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- redcatgames.blogspot.com
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $115/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- $0.49 - $1.99 per item
Founder
Founder data not yet collected for this app.
Funding
Funding data not yet collected for this app.
Press & Links
Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.
Contacts & Socials
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
📝 About this app
World's Hardest Game Deluxe Edition
INSTRUCTIONS:
Use the arrow keys to move the red square through the maze of balls to the end zone. You have to avoid the blue balls while collecting all of the yellow balls. Good luck. You're going to need it!
INSTRUCTIONS:
Use the arrow keys to move the red square through the maze of balls to the end zone. You have to avoid the blue balls while collecting all of the yellow balls. Good luck. You're going to need it!
App Specs
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for World's Hardest Game Deluxe: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 788 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does World's Hardest Game Deluxe make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, World's Hardest Game Deluxe earns approximately $144/mo. This is a US-storefront-equivalent estimate; global revenue can be several times larger for internationally-distributed apps. See the methodology page for the full formula and confidence bands.
What apps are like World's Hardest Game Deluxe?▴
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Who makes World's Hardest Game Deluxe?▴
World's Hardest Game Deluxe is published by REDCAT GAMES on the Google Play Store. See the full publisher portfolio (other apps by the same developer) via the More by developer block on the product page above.
What is World's Hardest Game Deluxe's BU Score?▴
World's Hardest Game Deluxe has a BU Score of 34/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.