Crown Sort 3D
Sort colored royal gems into matching stacks to rebuild a crumbling kingdom.
Tap a gem pile to lift the top gem; tap another pile to drop it on a matching color — clear a stack of 4 to merge and earn stars.
One thumb, tap source pile then tap destination pile.
Royal/match-3-adjacent puzzle riding the Royal Kingdom App Store wave.
Royal Kingdom hit #8 Casual / #16 top free on US App Store with 1.1M ratings — royal-puzzle appetite is enormous.
Royal/puzzle appetite is real (Royal Kingdom: 25M+ downloads, 4.7★, 2M monthly downloads / $21M monthly revenue) and color-sort is a proven puzzle hook, but the combination is not novel.Royal Kingdom: 25M+ downloads, 4.7★ rating ↗Sensor Tower: 2M monthly downloads and $21M monthly revenue ↗
Color-sorting gameplay is highly shareable/streamable; one TikTok hashtag video pulled 815K likes and YouTube 'satisfying' compilations rack up large views.Single color-sort TikTok at 815.6K likes / 2.7K comments ↗
Tap source, tap destination — standard sort-puzzle framework; trivially prototypable with off-the-shelf templates.
Puzzle genre supports rewarded ads (extra moves, undo) and IAP lives/boosters; sort-puzzle hits like Water Sort Puzzle earn tens of millions, but the category is ad-driven and ARPDAU is lower than premium IAP match-3.Benchmark: $21M/mo for top-tier puzzle; sort subgenre typical IAA-heavy mix ↗
Sort-puzzle category is brutally saturated — Water Sort, Ball Sort, Color Sort, Stack Sort 3D already crowd the top charts; adding 'Royal' atop that mechanic puts a new entrant head-to-head with hundreds of lookalikes and a strong Royal Kingdom brand on the theme.Color sort puzzle subgenre already has dedicated creator content and many competing apps ↗Royal Kingdom already owns the 'royal puzzle' mindshare at scale ↗