Clash Of Clans - A Benchmark In Mobile Gaming

Early 2010- a time when smartphones were slowly trying to make an impact in every aspect of our lives. Android smartphones were getting cheaper by the hour and at the same time incorporating new features.

With PC gaming getting really expensive and gamers needing to shell out at least 50000INR to play games on a PC, mobile gaming started to become popular particularly on Android phones, the cheapest smartphone.

Games like Angry Birds, Temple Run, Fruit Ninja and Cut the Rope upon release became very popular upon release and maintained a position in the top 10 gaming apps for 6 months to atmost a year. But as more games started to crop up, the top positions had to be vacated for the newcomers.

It was in 2012 that Supercell from Finland came up with a new kind of strategy game for mobile phones. These kind of games only used to be popular in PC and xbow before. On October 7, 2013 , the game made its global release.

Soon different features started to be added to the game. In 2015, the introduction of clan wars where players from different teams could compete with each other took the game to new heights and for the first time, a mobile game had topped the charts in andriod gaming for continuously 3 years breaking the usual trend where such supremacy was limited to a year.

The main features of clash of clans included that players needed to build there own villages, set up defenses, train their own army and attack other players. Different kinds of troops and defenses were continuously added making the game all the more interesting.

Spells and heroes with different abilities started to be added to the game increasing its diversity. Over the course of 4 more years, more features like clan games, builder base, season challenges and clan war leagues were added. In 2019 clash of clans became the first game to be among the top 10 grossing games for continuous 6 years.

The success of clash of clans made Supercell release more games on the same line namely Clash Royale, Hay Day and Brawl Stars. Even the dominance of Playerunknown Battlegrounds couldn't obliterate clash of clans. Moreover Clash of clans has never got into any controversy ever which PUBG couldn't manage even in its first year of release.

If you have not played clash of clans before, I urge you to give it a try. You won't regret it.