LINE operator NHN Japan has been extremely slow in rolling out social games for their hyper-popular chat app (75 million downloads and counting), but the second wave of games is finally ready.
All of these games run on the LINE Game platform and let users connect with each other. They follow LINE Birzzle, which is doing extremely well.
Apart from Hero Collector, all of these games are/will be available in English. It seems like NHN Japan is rolling these out at different stores at different times, so some of these games might not be available in your country at the times stated below.
LINE Pop (puzzle game, release: November 19)
LINE Cartoon Wars (action game based on the Cartoon Wars franchise, release: November 19 in Japan)
LINE Homerun Battle Buster (baseball game, release: November 19)
LINE Hero Collector (adventure game, release: November 22)
LINE Patapoko Animal (puzzle shooter, release: November 19)
What’s interesting is that all of these games of the second batch of LINE-powered titles are published by NHN Japan. LINE Cartoon Wars is developed by Gamevil, LINE Patapoko Animal by Com2us, and LINE Homerun Battle Buster by TREENOD (the 2 other games are first-party titles).
