Games & Numbers (September 10 – September 23, 2025)
A bi-weekly report of milestones that PC/Console/Mobile games reached.
PC/Console Games
Over 20 million people have played Dead Island 2. This number includes both sales and players who downloaded the game via PS Plus or Xbox Game Pass.
Sales of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 have reached 4.4 million copies. This is not an official number; it was mentioned during a stream.
Hollow Knight Silksong has been purchased more than 3.5 million times on Steam; overall, more than 6 million people have played the game (including Game Pass players). More than half of the Steam owners have spent over 20 hours playing. Data from Alinea Analytics.
Over 3 million people have played Outward, released in March 2019. The developers shared this in their YouTube blog.
Frontier Development disclosed the sales of their projects. The most successful game is Jurassic World Evolution (6 million copies, £146 million in revenue). Elite Dangerous brought in £138 million (5.6 million copies).
According to Alinea Analytics, more than 2.5 million people have played Borderlands 4 since release (1.3 million copies on Steam). The project has already generated over $150 million in revenue. More than half of users on both Steam and PlayStation are from the US. Rumors suggest the development budget was around $200 million, with over 500 thousand pre-orders on Steam at launch.
Shape of Dreams, released by Neowiz, sold more than 300 thousand copies in a week. The game was developed by a team of 4 people.
The Crew series has been played by more than 50 million people. The first installment was released in December 2014.
More than 2 million users played skate. in early access within the first 24 hours. However, the project is facing issues – positive reviews on Steam are barely above 50%.
Dying Light: The Beast had a strong launch – on Steam, peak CCU reached 121 thousand players. Not a record for the series, but still very solid numbers.
Mobile Games
In its first year, Fable Town, developed by Reef Games and published by MGVC Publishing (MY.GAMES), earned more than $9 million. The game was downloaded 3 million times. Its current MAU has surpassed 500k, while DAU is at 100k.
Over 100 million people worldwide have played MaskGun – a first-person shooter by Supergaming. The game launched in 2019.