Games & Numbers (January 8 - January 22, 2025)

A bi-weekly report of milestones that PC/Console/Mobile games reached.

PC/Console Games

• According to estimates from the Chinese portal GameLook, Marvel Rivals earned over $136 million in its first month.

• Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 has surpassed 6 million copies sold.

• Sales of Balatro across all devices have exceeded 5 million copies.

• According to VGInsights, the indie horror game MiSide has earned over $28 million and sold more than 2.4 million copies. It was developed by a team of two people.

• Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader by Owlcat Games has sold 1 million copies.

• Sales of Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP have surpassed 200,000 copies. The original version of the game sold 1.24 million copies.

• ▫️Hitman: World of Assassination has been played by more than 75 million people. This is the most successful entry in the 24-year history of the series. However, this figure does not represent sales.

• Users have downloaded mods for Baldur's Gate 3 more than 100 million times.

• The developers of the strategy game Broken Arrow have shared a milestone of 800,000 wishlists.

• PIONER has received over 100,000 wishlists in a month.

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Mobile Games

• Pokemon TCG Pocket has earned over $400 million in 10 weeks. But the revenue trend is rather negative.

• The revenue of Zenless Zone Zero on mobile devices has surpassed $250 million. The game set a record for daily revenue on December 18, after the release of update 1.4 - $8.6 million.

• Infinity Nikki earned $16 million (after deducting commissions and taxes) on mobile devices in the first month after launch. The majority of this revenue - 63% - came from the iOS version in China. This data is shared by AppMagic.

• Archero 2 earned 8.06 million in the first 11 days after its global launch, according to AppMagic. This figure excludes platform commissions and taxes. The first game started nine times worse.

• More than 10 million people have played Where Winds Meet in China. The iOS version of the project earned $3 million after commissions and taxes in 4 days, according to AppMagic. Goldman Sachs analysts predict the game will generate $573 million in revenue in its first year of operation.

• Squid Game: Unleashed by Netflix has been downloaded 13.9 million times. The game does not require a subscription to the service, and it is the third most downloaded game from Netflix.