Whether it’s action games, platform games, role-playing games (RPG), fighting games, or intellectual games, mobile gaming is easily accessible. Mobile gaming has become the world’s most popular form of gaming, overtaking both PC and gaming consoles. Specifically, most people now own smartphones, enabling them to play any mobile game anywhere.

As technology advances and game developers keep creating fresh content, every day, there is a new game to try. Luckily for mobile gamers, there are many games that encourage them to keep playing.

Dekaron M is a popular mobile MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) evolution of Ubifun Studio’s classic title Dekaron Online. The game was made by Thumbage, a Korea-based mobile game development company that creates role-playing games (RPG) and action-based games. Consequently, Real Research surveyed to find out the public opinion on mobile gaming and Dekaron M.

Highlights

  • 44% prefer a mobile game which they can enjoy lightly during their spare time
  • Nearly 19% spend more than 2 hours on the mobile game
  • Almost 28% prefer role-playing games like MMORPG and turn-based strategy RPG
  • About 49% claim that they knew Dekaron M was out this April

44% Prefer a Mobile Game Which They Can Enjoy During Their Spare Time

The growth of mobile gaming is given to smartphone universality and progress in mobile phone technology, allowing almost anyone to access and enjoy immersive mobile games.

Many people reportedly claimed to play games for various reasons. In particular as a profession, to relax or to improve social skills, as a hobby, or just for fun.

In line with this, almost 44% of participants said that they prefer a mobile game which they can enjoy lightly during their spare time. Meanwhile, 13% enjoy playing a mobile game that lets them feel maximum pleasure and immersion if possible. On the other hand, 44% noted that they don’t play any games.

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According to a Real Research survey on gaming preferences, 19% spend more than 2 hours on the mobile game, 16% spend less than 1 hour, around 9% play mobile games for less than 30 minutes, and 11% of respondents spend less than 10 minutes on mobile games per day. However, nearly 45% don’t play any mobile games.

Many prefer a mobile game which they can enjoy during their spare time
Figure 1: Many prefer a mobile game which they can enjoy during their spare time

In addition, about 28% prefer role-playing games like MMORPG and turn-based strategy RPG. Aside from these, nearly 9% prefer casual games such as board, quiz, puzzle, and more others. Moreover, others prefer sports, racing, strategy, simulation, arcade, adventure, music, rhythm games, and many more.

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Most Of The People Prefer RPGs That Develops Characters

Most of the participants strongly (36%) and somewhat (8%) prefer RPG games that develop characters within a specific worldview. Meanwhile, a small number (10%) don’t particularly prefer or don’t prefer any RPG game that develops characters. On the other hand, a quarter (25%) of respondents are neutral on whether they prefer or not. But, the rest (22%) are not sure about the preference or don’t play any games.

Most prefer RPGs that develops characters
Figure 2: Most prefer RPGs that develops characters

Mobile Game Preferences

With billions of mobile gamers in the world, preferences can naturally wildly differ from player to player. Following this, the majority strongly agree (36%) or somewhat agree (18%) that they can’t play a game that looks complicated. However, only a small percentage of participants disagree (7%) or strongly disagree (12%) on the look of the game. Besides, more than a quarter (27%) are unconcerned about how difficult the game looks.

Mobile game preferences
Figure 3: Mobile game preferences

In addition, 32% strongly prefer a mobile game with elegant graphics. However, about 30% don’t really care about graphics when selecting a mobile game.

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Moreover, 33% strongly prefer that the character in the game should be appropriate to play a game. Aside from these, 36% claimed that they don’t play a game that has excessive payment elements or that seems to lead to more spending. Adding to these, 33% of respondents prefer a game that challenges their brains.

The Majority Are Willing To Play Dekaron M Mobile Game

As mentioned above, Dekaron M is a mobile MMORPG evolution of Ubifun Studio’s classic title Dekaron Online. It was originally a PC game released in 2005. Known as MMORPG Dekaron M, the game is brutal action gameplay and dark fantasy worldview released on April 15.

Although Dekaron M is popular among mobile gamers, only 49% claimed they know that the game was released this April compared to the 51% who don’t know about the mobile game.

Expanding further, the majority (57%) are willing to look into the popular game and enjoy playing it. However, the minority (43%) is not ready to give it a try.

Dekaron M mobile game
Figure 4: Dekaron M mobile game

Methodology

Survey TitleGamer Preference Over Game Selection and Awareness of Dekaron M
DurationOctober 07 – October 14, 2021
Number of Participants15,000
DemographicsMales and females, aged 20 to 59
Participating CountriesAfghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, China (Hong-Kong), China (Macao), China (Taiwan), Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Libya, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritania, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco,Mozambique, Myanmar [Burma], Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Sierra leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Sweden, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zimbabwe.