Games & Numbers (August 7 - August 23)
A bi-weekly report of milestones that PC/Console/Mobile games reached.
PC/Console Games
Black Myth: Wukong has been purchased over 10 million times. The simultaneous number of players across all platforms exceeded 3 million people. On Steam, the peak online count reached 2.41 million. All these are real figures, not calculations or approximations.
Warner Bros. Discovery and NetherRealm Studios reported 4 million sales of Mortal Kombat 1. The game was released on September 19, 2023.
The audience of Enshrouded exceeded 3 million people. The game was released in early access on January 24, 2024. The first million players were reached after four days; the second after the first month.
Balatro was purchased by 2 million people. The developer promises to release a major gameplay update in 2025.
Abiotic Factor was bought 600,000 times in 3 months. The first 250,000 sales were reached 8 days after release. The USA accounted for 38% of sales, and China for 21%.
Another Crab’s Treasure crossed the mark of 500,000 copies sold. The game took 3.5 months to achieve this.
Cataclismo, which launched in Early Access at the end of July, has already sold 120,000 copies. The game is published by Hooded Horse.
The free Once Human was downloaded more than 10 million times. It took just over 1 month to reach this milestone. The mobile version is set to be released at the end of September.
Hunt: Showdown set a CCU record 5 years after its release. Players were drawn by the new update, and CCU on Steam reached 60,000 users.
Delta Force: Hawk Ops has over a million wishlists. The game does not yet have a release date.
Mobile Games
The Battle Cats from the Japanese studio PONOS has earned more than $700 million, according to Sensor Tower. 68% of the project's revenue came from Japan, 11% from the USA, and 8% from South Korea. The game has over 78.3 million installs, and MAU has not fallen below 1 million people since June 2021.
Players have spent over $500 million in Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery. The game has been working towards this figure since April 2018. Most of the revenue comes from the USA, Germany, the UK, and France.
Dice Dreams has surpassed $400 million in gross revenue, according to Sensor Tower. For three years before the release of MONOPOLY GO!, the game earned $125 million, and the remaining $275 million was earned after the release of the hit from Scopely. The main market for the project is the USA.
AFK Journey launched in China, and in the first 5 days, users spent $5.1 million in the game, according to AppMagic. This is already 7% of the game's total revenue of $78.8 million.
The head of Epic Games, Tim Sweeney, estimated the losses due to the removal of Fortnite from the App Store and Google Play at $1 billion. However, he believes that this is a "small price for freedom."