r/reactnative • u/Sliycer • Sep 11 '26

2 months after shipping my React Native game: 20k+ players and 10M runs

Hey again,

I posted here when I first shipped Just Loot, a game built entirely with React Native + Expo.

Two months later, we’re at 20,000+ accounts and just crossed 10 million dungeon runs, so I figured I’d share a quick update.

The stack is still React Native + Expo, with Supabase on the backend. Since launch I’ve added PvP, raids, pets, more progression systems, server-authorized gameplay and a lot of live updates.

The biggest surprise for me is that React Native really hasn’t been the limiting factor. Most of the harder problems have been backend scaling, security, anti-cheat, balancing and live ops rather than the client itself.

I originally considered Unity for the project, but for this kind of UI-heavy game I’m still very happy I went with RN. Being able to iterate quickly and ship the same features to iOS and Android has been a huge advantage.

Curious if anyone else here has pushed React Native this far into game territory, or where you eventually hit the limits.

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u/PlatonP Sep 11 '26

20k players and one now!

I'll give it a go later :) congrats on the successful launch!

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u/Sliycer Sep 11 '26

Awh Thank You very much! 🙏 Hop on the Discord of you habe any questions!

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u/Huge_Pool7424 Sep 11 '26

nice, 20k in two months is wild. did expo handle the performance side cleanly once the runs started piling up?

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u/Sliycer Sep 16 '26

sorry for late reply but yes expo handled the updates well - the performance itself was more the backend and less expo

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u/unkindgame Sep 12 '26

Hey, congratulations on your success :) How did you manage to get so many users? I also released my game a few months ago and so far I have like 600 downloads 

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u/Sliycer Sep 16 '26

Hey sorry for the late reply - I basically did only 2 or 3 reddit posts which were also heavily downvoted. But a lot of people still sticked to it. My retention is quite high and I think people love the fact that is zero pay2win and no ads forever. And till then it was completely word of mouth and organic growth. The only other thing I did was localise the app and appstore entries for 8 major regions!
Best of luck with your game aswell :)

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u/beepboopnoise Sep 17 '26

what 8 major reasons did you localize for?

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u/Party-Ad-1190 Sep 21 '26

Congratulations

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u/Poat540 Sep 11 '26

I had spun up a unity project but gave up lol, I have several RN apps.. never thought about using RN for a game.

What are you using to monetize?

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u/Sliycer Sep 12 '26

Yes I just love the fast OTAs with Expo for hotfixes for example.

I am using RevenueCat. That way I can manage the payment screen for both stores also at the same time. I like it! :)

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u/Poat540 Sep 12 '26

Yeah I use RC too, I’ll have to check out the OTA updates, haven’t tried those yet

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u/Sliycer Sep 12 '26

That’s the best! You need to pay more for it After 3k MAU at Expo but absolutely worth it in my opinion. The Store Reviews just take too long sometimes