82
Quality Score
Excellent
Payback 2 - The Battle Sandbox
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Payback 2 - The Battle Sandbox is an Android app from Apex Designs Games LLP in the Arcade category, currently rated 4.5★ across 2,233,226 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 82: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Arcade app, that means strong product-market fit. The full BU Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
$6.0K/mo
Founder-confirmed monthly revenue
MID tier
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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BU Investment Matrix
Weak · 43/100MID TIERbelow benchmarksGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.8
Product Quality
9.1
Revenue Strength
3.8
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
2.0
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
9.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $4K - $8K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.53★ across 2,233,226 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: last update 263d ago — slow cadence.
- ⚠️ Risk: Low — no material risk signals detected.
🎯 For competitors: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $107K-$191K.
Composite of 8 dimensions computed deterministically from public signals — no LLM, every score traces back to a measurable input. Default weights shown; "compete" / "acquire" / "invest" lenses re-weight without re-fetching.
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💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 3 of 3 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (2,233,226 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.5★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v2.106.16🔄 updated 8mo ago📂 Arcade💰 Free
📝 About this app
Gaming App of The Day - Kotaku.com
"[Payback 2] manages to create a sense of overblown fun that permeates everything from straightforward races to capture the flag-inspired heists ... an immensely entertaining experience" - pocketgamer.co.uk
Featured as one of the best games of the week by The Guardian
"There’s a ton of stuff to do which is what gives Payback 2 such an interesting atmosphere" - Super Game Droid
Android Authority's Indie App of the Day
DESCRIPTION:… View full description on the official store →
"[Payback 2] manages to create a sense of overblown fun that permeates everything from straightforward races to capture the flag-inspired heists ... an immensely entertaining experience" - pocketgamer.co.uk
Featured as one of the best games of the week by The Guardian
"There’s a ton of stuff to do which is what gives Payback 2 such an interesting atmosphere" - Super Game Droid
Android Authority's Indie App of the Day
DESCRIPTION:… View full description on the official store →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Payback 2 - The Battle Sandbox
- Developer
- Apex Designs Games LLP
- Bundle ID
- net.apex_designs.payback2
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Arcade
- Content rating
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- Languages
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Company
- Website
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- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
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- Founded
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- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
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Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
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- AI revenue estimate / mo
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- AI annual estimate
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- ML model estimate / mo
- $6.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
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- Pricing
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Founder
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Funding
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Press & Links
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✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: LOW
Publicly available data for the Android app "Payback 2 - The Battle Sandbox" indicates a monthly in-app purchase revenue of less than $5,000, according to Sensor Tower. However, the developer, Apex Designs Games LLP, has also reported a "significant jump in revenues" from implementing interstitial and rewarded video ads in Payback 2, suggesting a substantial ad revenue component that is not publicly quantified. With 3 million monthly downloads and 1.8 million daily active users, the total revenue (in-app purchases + advertising) is likely higher than the reported in-app purchase figure, but a precise estimate for total revenue is not publicly available.
Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, InMobi, ASOTools
Citations: sensortower.com · sensortower.com · sensortower.com · sensortower.com · inmobi.cn · asotools.io
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Payback 2 - The Battle Sandbox: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.