Sparking New Joy For An Idle Player Base

Customer story

Supercell leverages Traits to revitalize Hay Day.

Client Supercell

Company size 480+

Genre Strategy

Use case In-game event optimization

Supercell leverages Traits to revitalize Hay Day.

The challenge

A decade after the iconic Hay Day was released, Supercell came to Solsten with their desire to breathe new life into their 15M player community.

Specifically, they wanted to identify the event opportunities that would best attract, engage and retain high LTV players.

The solution

We launched our psychological assessment Traits in Hay Day to measure and profile the live player base to identify the game’s most valuable personas.

Within a couple of days, over 35K validated players completed the assessment and the Supercell product team zeroed in on a few critical psychological traits their most valuable personas exhibited.

Players’ preferences for mechanics and features based on these traits painted a vivid picture for the team to refine an in-game event schedule, and helped put an end to an unproductive impasse on the Hay Day production team.

The result

In just 2 months from project inception with Solsten to custom results, the Hay Day team was able to use these insights to increase two critical engagement KPIs across their player base: 22% increase in average daily number of sessions and 18% increase in avg. daily playtime.

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Supercell leverages Traits to revitalize Hay Day.

Supercell leverages Traits to revitalize Hay Day.

The challenge

The solution

The result

Produce your best work with Solsten

How Solsten boosts business results

Deep insights, soaring retention.

From course correction to home run.

Mining actionable player insights without in-house researchers.

Putting audience first to the test for a new game

The best way to integrate IP: start at the beginning.

Creating a virtual touchdown in the metaverse.

Produce your best work
with Solsten

How Solsten boosts
business results