Battle Waves: Mobile launches after four years of solo development

Pocket Gamer RSS Feed📅 June 2, 2026⏱ 1 min read(3 months ago)

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Building a card battler from scratch is hard enough with a full studio behind you. Gabriel's Games is one person, and it's taken four years. Battle Waves: Mobile is out now, which feels like it's earned being said plainly. Iwan covered it during pre-registration, when it was sitting at 20,000 sign-ups. Now it’s got 160,000 pre-registrations and has claimed the top spot for pre-orders on the App Store worldwide. A decent amount of expectation to carry into a launch day. ... [MORE]

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