Unboxing the Cryptic Killer

We put this game to every storefront we collect. A market that answered not sold has told us something about the game; a market we never asked has not, and the two are never drawn the same.

• 🇺🇸UShome$2.99
• 🇦🇺AUA$3.99
• 🇧🇷BRR$9.90
• 🇨🇦CACA$3.99
• 🇩🇪DE€2.99
• 🇫🇷FR€2.99
• 🇬🇧UK£2.99
• 🇯🇵JP¥500
• 🇰🇷KR₩4,400
• 🇲🇽MXMX$29.00
• 🇵🇱PLPLN 9.99
• 🇹🇷TRTRY 79.99
• 🇺🇦UA$1.99
• 🇨🇳CNNot sold
• 🇷🇺RUNot sold

13 on sale2 answered “not sold”0 we did not ask

The 2 “not sold” markets are read from the App Store price pass of Sep 15: that day the store answered for this game elsewhere and gave no price in those. The 13 priced markets are the same rows as the table above — each the latest price we hold, dated here when it is older than that pass. The 0 marked “not asked” were not put to this store at all — either it has no storefront there or we do not collect it yet, and neither is a statement about the game. A refusal is a refusal on one day; a store can list a title again tomorrow.

Each storefront's own chart, in its own country — the closest public signal to sales where none is published. A country missing from a list is one we don't collect there, not one where the game doesn't chart.

Each storefront's own ratings counter and average — separate, overlapping audiences, never added together.

13 of 15 markets; the rest gave no counter or aren't reached yet, not markets where nobody rated it.

Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.

Too few observations to say whether a discount moves this store's chart at all: across the last 30 days App Store · Top Paid · Japan has just 11 day-to-day chart moves that followed a price cut, against 2,669 that did not. We are publishing the count instead of a direction — 20 is the fewest we will draw a conclusion from, and price collection outside the United States began on 6 August 2026.

Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.

How fast this game is gaining ratings — the activity signal available where a store publishes no sales or install numbers.

Measured from our own daily snapshots, not reported by the store. Deliberately not converted into sales: a one-tap rating's ratio to copies sold is unknown on this platform, and guessing it would be worse than leaving it out.