The $1,000,000,000 Puzzle Game

A game where pigs ride a conveyor belt made its 20-person studio worth more than $1 billion. Subscribe and get next week's market report: https://trends.vc/?utm_source=youtube... The game is Pixel Flow, made by Loom Games in Istanbul. On February 19, Scopely, the company behind Monopoly GO, bought a majority stake at a valuation above $1 billion. CEO Kübra Gündoğan tried the idea with paper and pen before the team built it. The game came out in August 2025. By the end of its first month it paid for itself. By January it earned more than $1 million a day from purchases and ads. Players spent about $105 million inside it in under a year, by AppMagic's estimate. I mapped AI game generators for the Trends.vc report. Pixel Flow shows what one good prototype can be worth. Chapters 00:00 Pigs on a conveyor belt and a $1B deal 00:27 Loom Games and its founders 00:40 Tested on paper first 00:56 How Pixel Flow makes money 01:06 Going all in 01:26 A million dollars a day 01:56 Copies and a new beginning --- Subscribe and get next week's market report: https://trends.vc/ #TrendsVC #MobileGames #Startups