Small-game market brief · October 4

This supplements the October 4 morning report. TapTap sampling ran from 09:17:17 to 09:46:44 Beijing time. Twenty-four charts produced 600 formal rows; 30 extra asynchronous rows among 630 raw rows are marked separately. Seven calendar page dates expanded to 1,220 events, 1,196 date-and-game groups and 1,140 games. The page timezone is unverified, so Beijing-time age eligibility is not calculated.

The three formal latest-review streams contained 59 reviews, and exploratory sampling contained another 59, with 46 overlapping: 72 unique IDs. Details were supplemented for 25 products, covering only 20 calendar games. Morning figures retain their original timestamps: 3,355 ranking rows and 791 reviews. The combined material contains 863 source review IDs and 36 mechanism cards; confirmed opportunities remain zero.

Focus observations concern saves and controls in 架空世界模拟器, scale management and the endgame in 网约车, and late-game builds in 增量地牢. Complaints addressed in update announcements are not labelled confirmed current defects. No CAPTCHA was displayed or solved; script/API access and visual acceptance were not verified.

The evening upstream sample is separate, taken at 13:56:18–13:58:47 UTC; Baidu sampling began at 21:56:18 Beijing time. Fifty valid signals yielded 12 topic leads. Capacity routing and cooking rhythm remain two unconfirmed directions, with zero qualified upstream candidates. The requested normal first-20 demand-review samples from two independent sources actually yielded zero sources and zero reviews. Four older store-display reviews are listed separately.

Eight supply-query groups were checked, but systematic top-ten coverage in all four categories is incomplete. Four related products were found; none were played. This first cloud baseline cannot establish rising or falling interest. Ad amounts remain null. Failure to find a product cannot establish an empty market or trigger local development.

The brief's final section contains the addition; appendix 9 keeps detailed checks. The October 2 CSS, six-section cards and three-level navigation are preserved. Only 12 research HTML files are public. Private research packages and raw responses remain private.

Coverage notes

Public browser samples; bounded rankings/calendar. Script/API unverified. Evening Baidu: 50 non-pinned signals; incomplete cross-source reviews and supply coverage.