Some reasons cited for the game's success include its graphic crime scenes and meaningful narratives. The game has a 40-percent share of Facebook users. By this time the cases had been translated into nine languages, and they were making an 8-digit sum of revenue. įive days later, Criminal Case won the Facebook Game of the Year 2013 award. We have writers and artists just really working hard to put out this content.' On December 4, 2013, the game achieved over 100 million users.

The developers explained in late 2013: 'To put out an investigation each week, there's almost 30 people working on it. Īs of mid-2013, Criminal Case attracted more than ten million monthly average users and became highly competitive with Candy Crush Saga, the most popular game on Facebook with over 46 million average monthly users. Just two months after the games launch, it had 1 million Daily Active Users. The murder investigation theme was chosen first by the developers, who decided to make the game in the Hidden Object genre due to it making both business and personal sense. Idenvest originally put up €300,000 in seed capital, which was followed by another €2.5 million after the game achieved a level of early modest success.

Pretty Simple was founded in 2010 by partners Bastien Cazenave and Corentin Raux and was backed by Idinvest Partners.

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