2026-10-25 / Daily game research
Scam climbs to 28; older release How to Fish appears at 94
Scam rises 32→28 in the October 24 Steam US top-100 comparison; August release How to Fish appears at 94. TapTap basketball ratings add 427 while the score falls 8.4→8.3.
Sources and sampling notes
Same observed Steam US top 100: October 24, 08:48→22:06; same TapTap entry: 08:44→22:02. All times Beijing.
Original tags: Steam · TapTap · 游戏机制 · H5 · 晨报 · 日报
Between October 24, 08:48 and 22:06 Beijing time, the same observed Steam US top 100 shows Scam With Your Friends rising 32→28 and How to Fish appearing at 94 after being absent from the earlier sample. Separately on TapTap, 篮球少女:飞跃巅峰 adds 427 ratings while its displayed score falls 0.1.
Steam
Scam: 32→28, with co-op dialogue fun and service complaints
From October 24, 08:48 to 22:06 Beijing time, Scam With Your Friends rises 32→28 in the same observed Steam US top 100. In Early Access since October 16, it combines co-op roles, real-time fictional AI dialogue and daily quotas. Normal reviews describe fun with friends as well as speech-recognition and service failures. A safe fictional H5 interaction could test an immediate conversational consequence; Chinese recognition, latency and cost still need testing.
How to Fish: newly seen at 94, not newly released
In the same October 24, 08:48→22:06 Beijing-time comparison of the Steam US top 100, How to Fish appears at 94 after being absent from the earlier sample. Its official release date is August 20: this is an older-game phenomenon. One to four players catch and sell fish, upgrade equipment and explore islands. Reviews support relaxed co-op but also report physics problems. Study one understandable cooperative action and reward before attempting a full networked world.
TapTap
Basketball title: ratings 1412→1839, score 8.4→8.3
Between October 24, 08:44 and 22:02 Beijing time, the same TapTap entry for 篮球少女:飞跃巅峰 adds 427 ratings while its displayed score falls 0.1. Counts and scores move in different directions; this is neither improving reception nor player or revenue growth. 黑曼波工作室 is credited as developer and 广州灵犀互动娱乐有限公司 as publisher.
Today and the next 14 days
Task Bar Cube still says unreleased and approximately 11 hours from unlock in today’s captured page. It is planned as free-to-play with Steam-market items, not an earnings promise or an H5-ready economy. Watch Emberville’s planned October 27 Early Access and Probably Stolen’s October 28 release. Nomad Drive shows October 28 on the Traditional Chinese page but October 27 in the en-US feed; retain that difference.
Upstream themes and conditional outlook
Douyin’s “亲手捏个角色放主页” falls 15→37, with heat 7.832m→7.693m, from October 24, 19:11 to October 25, 07:08 Beijing time. Over approximately 19:13→07:08, Hongguo’s 《空间囤货!我有四合院末世求生》 favorites rise 190,000→239,000 and likes 424,000→536,000, but it remains 12th on the comic-drama chart with composite heat unchanged at 55.10m. Displayable creations and resource choices offer mechanism context; different metrics do not form one growth measure.
Hongguo fictional-inventory series
Continuing watch
Continuing watch: Moon Sweepers’ cleaning feedback
Moon Sweepers moves only 34→33 in the same October 24, 08:48→22:06 Beijing-time chart comparison. Cleaning, recycling and upgrades offer visible before-and-after feedback. The full study covers the two-person team’s launch-issue statement and player counterevidence; announced repairs are not verified results.
Evidence record
Same observed Steam US top 100: October 24, 08:48→22:06; same TapTap entry: 08:44→22:02. All times Beijing.