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New Game Mode First-Week Retention

Nova Arcade Studios is an independent mobile game publisher whose flagship title, 'Rift Runners,' is a free-to-play competitive arena game with roughly 400K daily active players. The studio launched a new cooperative game mode called 'Heist Squad' at the start of last month to diversify play styles and lift long-term retention.

Heist Squad has now been live for about four weeks.

The business question

Our new game mode launched last month — why are first-week retention numbers below target, and what should we prioritize?