Games & Numbers (May 21 - June 3, 2025)
A bi-weekly report of milestones that PC/Console/Mobile games reached.
PC/Console Games
Total sales of all games related to the Pokémon universe have exceeded 489 million copies. Next year, the number will likely be even more impressive.
Sales of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt have reached 60 million copies. It took the legendary game 10 years to hit this milestone.
Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty has sold over 10 million copies. Back in January 2024, it was reported that the expansion had sold 5 million copies.
More than 10 million players have played Atomic Heart. This number doesn’t equal sales, since the game was available on subscription services.
The Nioh series has sold over 8 million copies. 90% of all sales come from the US and European countries.
Total sales of Sifu have reached 4 million copies. The game was released on February 8, 2022.
33 days after launch, sales of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 reached 3.3 million copies. Time to make a wish.
More than 3 million people played DOOM: The Dark Ages in less than a week. This is the biggest launch in the series’ history.
Elden Ring Nightreign sold over 2 million copies in its first 24 hours.
More than a million people played Revenge of the Savage Planet two weeks after launch. The game was available from day one on Xbox Game Pass.
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The cozy adventure from Level-5, Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time, sold over half a million copies in its first 3 days.
Cash Cleaner Simulator sold over 100,000 copies in a week. By release, the game had 42,000 wishlists.
JDM: Japanese Drift Master from Polish studio Gaming Factory earned $1.2 million in its first 5 days on sale. $2.9 million was spent on development, and $268,000 on marketing.
Gothic 1 Remake has over 1 million wishlists — a solid achievement for a cult project.
Quarantine Zone: The Last Check has attracted more than 650,000 wishlists. The game went viral online, with TikTok videos racking up millions of views. Release is planned for September 2025.
The King is Watching is actively gaining wishlists. More than 200,000 people have already added the game to their wishlist. There’s no exact release date yet.
Mobile Games
AppMagic reports that players have already spent over $6 billion (Gross) in Royal Match. The US accounts for 54.5% of all revenue. Since launch, the game has been downloaded over 351 million times.
Dungeon & Fighter Mobile earned more than $1.3 billion in its first year on the Chinese App Store. The project’s actual revenue is significantly higher.
Pokémon TCG Pocket surpassed $1 billion in gross revenue 204 days after release. According to AppMagic, the project hit this milestone 78 days faster than Pokémon GO.
Candy Crush Saga posted its second-highest monthly revenue ever in April 2025. The game made $108.25 million after taxes and fees. The only higher month was October 2021, by $38,000. Numbers from AppMagic.
Delta Force surpassed $100 million in mobile revenue. $72.9 million was earned before the global launch. The overwhelming majority of revenue comes from China.
Blood Strike by NetEase Games has been downloaded over 100 million times. The game launched in Southeast Asia in October 2023, and its global release was on March 21, 2024. The game is also available on PC. According to AppMagic, it has earned nearly $23 million before taxes and fees.
A new mobile basketball game from NetEase Games—Dunk City Dynasty—attracted over a million users in its first 5 days. The game is available in the US and several Southeast Asian countries.
UGC
The CCU of the new Roblox hit Grow a Garden reached 11.7 million people on May 31. For comparison, on that day, there were fewer people in all games on Steam.
