The mobile game “Alyonka’s Stories” won the RuStore Awards 2026 in the “Game for Every Day” category

On November 2, the RuStore Awards 2026 ceremony took place in Moscow, where the best apps and games that had particularly stood out over the past year were selected.

RuStore experts evaluated the nominees based on several criteria: product quality, technological innovation, audience growth, retention, monetization, and user experience.

The “Game for Every Day” award went to the merge puzzle game “Alyona’s Stories.” This is the second consecutive RuStore Awards win for the “Nashi Igry” studio. In 2025, the platform named “Domovyata World”—a mobile match-three puzzle game—the winner in the “Family Hit” category.

“We’re delighted that our story has resonated with players, especially women. We wanted to preserve the spirit of the familiar fairy tales while giving them a modern twist—with humor, romance, unexpected turns, and characters people have known since childhood. This award means a lot to our team because it shows that audiences are genuinely interested in this kind of game,” says Alyona Petryasheva, Head of Marketing for “Alyona’s Stories.”

“Alyona’s Stories” launched in 2026 and has already reached 3.5 million installs across all platforms. Today, it attracts more than 1.37 million players every month.

The game uses the popular merge mechanic: players combine items on the board (their position doesn’t matter) to turn them into more valuable ones, then merge the resulting items, and so on. At the same time, players need to complete “orders” for specific items to earn money and make sure low-level items don’t fill up the entire board.

There are quite a few similar projects on mobile platforms today. Their mechanics are much the same, but each features an engaging storyline that players progress through as they earn money. In this respect, “Alyona’s Stories” offers an unusual take on familiar Russian fairy tales, combining classic motifs with modern realities and trends. Familiar characters have taken on new roles: the Hut on Hen’s Legs recognizes its owners by their biometric data, while Koschei keeps his riches in a network of ATMs. Beloved characters and reimagined magical tales come together with humor, romance, and adventure.

The main character is Alyona, a young, strong, and independent woman whose life is suddenly turned upside down. Her brother Ivanushka is turned into a little goat, her fiancé turns out to be a traitor, and the family business is under threat. To set everything right again, Alyona must journey to the fairy-tale world of her childhood—a world that has changed with the times.

If you’d like to try the game for yourself and see what impressed the RuStore jury, it’s available on Google Play, App Store, and RuStore.