Pocket Mortys

Pocket Mortys materialized on StreamerHouse in 2018, peaking at 716 viewers for Adult Swim's Pokemon parody that became successful enough to justify studio acquisition. Big Pixel Studios launched the free-to-play mobile game January 13th, 2016, letting players control Rick while capturing Mortys across parallel universes with turn-based combat straight from Pokemon's playbook. StreamerHouse appreciated the rock-paper-scissors type system (Rock-type Mortys beat Scissor-types, etc.) and the absurd premise of collecting infinite Morty variants. Reviews were mixed—PC Magazine's 3.5/5 and Kotaku's "brilliant" praise contrasted with IGN's "mediocre" 5.5 citing lack of cohesion. Multiplayer beta launched May 9th, 2017 for 5,000 Android users, with full rollout July 5th via version 2.0. The game's success prompted Adult Swim to acquire Big Pixel Studios on May 21st, 2018—two years and four months after launch, validating the Rick and Morty IP's gaming potential. Oni Press published two comic spin-offs (2016's "Pocket Mortys" and 2017's "Pocket Like You Stole It!") expanding the multiverse further. For StreamerHouse, it proved Adult Swim could turn animated properties into sustainable mobile games despite critical ambivalence.