Game Sales Round-up (17.04.24 - 30.04.24)
Manor Lords is a roaring success for a solo developer.
Sea of Thieves has over 40 million users. The impressive milestone was announced a week before the release on PlayStation, and the player count has grown even more since then.
Buckshot Roulette reached over a million copies sold in 2 weeks. It's an indie horror game about "Russian roulette."
House Flipper 2 sold 13,088 copies on Xbox ($511.7k revenue) and 18,170 copies on PlayStation ($667k revenue) in the first 3 days on consoles. The results are four times worse than on PC, where the game was purchased 131 thousand times in a similar period in December 2023.
Frostpunk surpassed the great milestone of 5 million copies sold. An excellent achievement.
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Users have spent over $8 billion on Pokémon GO since its release, according to AppMagic analysts. During the same period, the game was downloaded over 656 million times.
Capcom and Niantic reported 15 million downloads of Monster Hunter Now. AppMagic notes that during this time, the game has earned $164 million gross.
Manor Lords sold over 1 million copies within a day of its release. At the time of launch, the game had over 3.2 million wishlists. The project's peak CCU is 173 thousand people. One person made the game, Greg Styczeń (Slavic Magic); Hooded Horse published the project.
In the first 2 weeks, over 65 million people watched the Fallout TV series. The majority of viewers are aged between 18 and 34. The top countries for viewership are the United Kingdom, France, and Brazil.