I Am MT: Rise
I Am MT: Rise, an idle card game licensed from the original web animation
First principle
People like to see their team grow stronger without spending much time on it. I Am MT: Rise keeps fighting and gathering while you are away, and one tap collects it all.
The needs it meets
- ProgressCore
- Seeing yourself get better: a level cleared, a rank gained, a skill learnt.
- Thrill
- The jolt of a draw, a pull or a bet.
Why it wins
- The heroes are the animation's familiar cast; the animation and the 2013 card game built on it were both hits, so former players know them at once.
- Auto battles, offline farming and one tap sweeps of daily dungeons take a few minutes a day; those who want more have two towers and an arena.
- Faction bonuses decide how to build a team of five, and every new hero drawn means reworking the lineup, so draws and upgrades keep pushing each other.
What keeps it ahead
- Brand and IP
- People knew it already: the brand, the characters, the stars.
- Daily habit
- A reason to come back every day: streaks, check ins, energy.
How it makes money
In app purchases
Free to play; it sells diamonds from 6 to 328 yuan, which players save up for hero draws. A launch event billed as a thousand free draws holds people first, and idle rewards let non payers keep up slowly.
What a small team can take from it
Little to copy: its capital is an old IP and the players who still remember it. What a small team can borrow is the idle loop itself, progress that grows offline and is collected in one tap; it is cheap to build and works in a browser.
This week
- China: top grossing games, number 10
- China: top free games, number 38
updated 29 October 2026
- Developer
- Chengmai Wulin Interactive Entertainment Co.,Ltd
- Category
- Game
- Stores
- App Store
- First in a list
- 29 October 2026
Sources
This is our analysis and judgement, drafted by an AI agent from the store pages and public sources and read by a person before it went up. Every figure has a source; where there is none, we give no figure. Found a mistake? Write to [email protected].