Game Is Hard

Name: Game Is Hard
Rating: 4.793103 (38576 reviews)
Author: Unico Studio

Unico Studio

★ 4.8 (38,576 ratings)

⬇ 1,000,000+ downloads

Est. actual: 1,593,880

Style: Nonogram / Logic

Free

Released: Jun 2, 2026

IAP: $0.99 - $44.99 per item

Contains ads

Rated: Everyone

Mechanics Brain teaser & tricky puzzles

Signals

5 this week · 3 positive · 1 warning All of this week's signals →

📈Last 7 days +51K installs — 39% slower than the week before (+84K) · 6.9K/day since Sep 11
🏆Among Nonogram / Logic games top 1% by installs gained this week (3572 peers growing)
⭐Rating steady at ★ 4.79 since Sep 10
🛠Updates actively updated · updated 2 days ago · every ~29 days (3 updates tracked)
📊Top Free entered Sep 15 at #182 · best #116 · now #200 (15 days charted)

Estimates · last 30 days ⓘModelled figures, not reported by the store. Use them for scale and trends, not exact numbers.

Downloads ⓘTotal measured from the store install counter over the last 30 days. The split by country is estimated from chart positions in 20 markets with our own model — not figures reported by the store.

202Kmeasured · last 30 days

🇺🇸 United States38%77K
🇦🇺 Australia8%17K
🇬🇧 United Kingdom8%16K
🇵🇱 Poland7%14K
🇨🇦 Canada6%13K
Other markets33%

Installs since launch

+593,880 installs · +5,285 ratings since Sep 10

SDKs in the app · version 1.4.2, analysed Sep 28, 2026

Ad mediationAppLovin MAX ironSource / Unity LevelPlay
Ad networkAppLovin SDK DT Exchange (Fyber)Google Mobile Ads (AdMob) 24.5.0 InMobi Liftoff Monetize (Vungle) 7.7.4 Meta Audience Network 6.21.0 Mintegral Moloco Ads 4.9.0 Ogury Pangle 8.1.0.3 Unity Ads 4.16.3 Verve (HyBid)
Ad qualityAppLovin Ad Review (SafeDK)
AnalyticsFirebase Analytics 22.4.0
AttributionAdjust Facebook App Events 17.0.2 TikTok Business SDK 1.6.0
ConsentGoogle User Messaging Platform 3.2.0
Crash reportingFirebase Crashlytics
Engagement & messagingCleverTap Firebase Cloud Messaging 24.1.1 Play In-App Review 2.0.0
Game engineUnity (engine)
Game servicesPlay Games Services 21.0.0
PaymentsPlay Billing Library 8.3.0
Remote configFirebase Remote Config 22.1.0
Social & loginFacebook Gaming Services Facebook Login Facebook SDK (core) 17.0.2 Facebook Share Google Sign-In 21.4.0

15 mediation adapters

Adapters connect a mediation SDK to an ad network. An adapter alone does not mean the network’s own SDK is bundled.

AppLovin MAX adapter → AmazonAdMarketplace 6.2.2.0AppLovin MAX adapter → AppLovinAppLovin MAX adapter → AppLovin 8.1.0.3.0AppLovin MAX adapter → AppLovin 6.21.0.0AppLovin MAX adapter → AppLovin 24.5.0.0AppLovin MAX adapter → AppLovin 11.3.0.0AppLovin MAX adapter → AppLovin 8.4.5.0AppLovin MAX adapter → AppLovin 17.1.51.0AppLovin MAX adapter → AppLovin 4.9.0.0AppLovin MAX adapter → AppLovin 4.16.3.0AppLovin MAX adapter → AppLovin 3.8.2.0AppLovin MAX adapter → AppLovin 7.7.4.0AppLovin MAX adapter → NeftaAppLovin MAX adapter → Yandex 24.5.0.0AppLovin MAX adapter → Yandex 9.4.3.0.0

Found by static analysis of the app package; bundled is not the same as active. All SDKs →

Update history

1.4.5 Oct 24, 2026

Bug fixes and performance improvements.

1.4.2 Oct 8, 2026 · seen Oct 3, 2026

The Master Challenge is here! Take on 460 challenging levels, collect trophies, and climb the global, local, and monthly leaderboards. How far can you go?

1.4.1 Aug 27, 2026 · seen Sep 15, 2026

Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Game Is Hard is a nonogram / logic game by Unico Studio with 1,000,000+ downloads (about 1.6M estimated). +51K installs in the last 7 days. Rated 4.8 from 39K ratings. Released Jun 2, 2026. Install growth, rank history, SDKs and ad networks.

From the store listing: “Game is Hard is not your typical puzzle app. This is a pure brain puzzle experience designed for players who love being challenged. With its clever, minimalist style and unexpected interactions, it blends elements of brain games, logic, and device-based exploration into a collection of brutally tricky levels and hard…”