Evony: The King’s Return, an in-depth strategy game, has already achieved over 200 million cumulative downloads and generated more than $355 million in revenue in 2023. It is highly regarded in the indie developer space as a high-earning product by its creator, Top Games, Inc., due to its ability to adapt and achieve big wins in a tough market. Evony has won the NYX SILVER award, was named Best MMO in Samsung’s Galaxy Store Awards, and ranked fifth on Data.ai’s list of Top Ten US-Headquartered Mid-Core Games.
In the 2022 NYX Game Awards Season 1 cycle, Evony: The King’s Return won the NYX SILVER award.
“I’m proud of the team for winning the NYX Silver Award. As a player myself, I found that many game companies cared less about user experiences and customer satisfaction, focusing more on forced monetization and decisions made without the backing of data science, leading to repeated poor experiences,” said Yaoqi Guo, explaining his reasons for joining Top Games Inc as CEO, to steer it on a different and better path with a focus on providing top-tier player experiences and services.
Evony has also been recognized with another honor, this time as Best MMO in Samsung’s Best of the Galaxy Store Awards, with Yaoqi Guo thanking fans online.
Evony: TKR: Real-time Persistent World
Evony: The King’s Return is a unique real-time strategy war game played globally across 150 countries and translated into 26 languages. Players can see exactly what’s happening in real-time on the server; all battles, player movements, monsters, bosses, and events happening all around them. They can watch and cheer on their friends battling monsters and help their guild compete against others for great prizes. With a world without language barriers, players can communicate via audio and voice-to-text chat, creating friendships and tackling the challenges the Evony world faces as players bridge the gap between cultures and continents while they come together to battle and defend. There are over five unique civilizations to explore and delve into, representing major cultures that our player base comes from. Each culture has unique benefits as well as special generals to find and obtain. With the use of the customized Unity engine, the graphics, animations, and code of Evony have been greatly optimized to ensure maximum battery and bandwidth savings to prolong a player’s gameplay session.
Yaoqi and his global team design games from the players’ perspectives. Noticing players have friends and large parts of their lives are shared in those games, Yaoqi Guo and Top Games Inc. aim to create the best gaming experience with long-lasting gaming communities for their players.
Evony TKR Aligns with the Yaoqi Guo’s vision
Under the leadership of CEO Yaoqi Guo (David Guo) and VP Benjamin Gifford, the team at Evony TKR aligns with the company’s vision to become the world’s most user-oriented game company. The team releases events that activate the player community’s interest, special holiday celebrations, and large-scale collaboration events with other brand IPs. For example, at the end of last year, they held a collaborative event with the Napoleon movie. The collaboration events consisted of two rounds, which opened on December 1, 2023, and January 26, 2024, respectively. This collaboration was a twice-thrilling historical adventure that took place in the world of cinema and the gaming realm. In line with the Napoleon movie’s storyline, Evony took players through collaborating battlefields and plot-driven events within the game, enabling them to relive pivotal historical moments from Napoleon’s life. This included the incorporation of anti-French alliances in the game, presenting players with a unique chance to experience competing against these forces.
At TGI, gaming continues to be the primary focus, but there is also a strong interest in exploring emerging areas such as blockchain-based gaming and wearables to complement their mainstay offerings. Their current projects are centered around creating immersive gaming experiences using cutting-edge technologies, aiming to set new industry standards and continue captivating a global audience.
