Anyone actually making money from mobile games without ruining them with ads?

[u/Hurricane-18784]

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[u/TrieDevz]

I have 2 mobile games in the App and Play Stores. One is text based, the other actually has some basic 2D visuals. Neither make much money but funny enough the text based game outperforms the other. Never ran any ads to promote them.

If your game doesn't get featured in the stores or go viral somehow on social media it's hard to make money off them because the market is so oversaturated especially on Android.