Phantom Blade Zero studio S-Recreation has introduced that its debut title has offered greater than 4m copies in its first 72 hours on sale. The sport’s official X account broke the information alongside a celebratory message, although with out offering a per-platform breakdown of copies offered.
“Thanks everybody from the underside of our hearts for all of the love and help!” the developer wrote on X.
Phantom Blade Zero is offered on Steam and PlayStation 5, however the 4m determine additionally consists of gross sales made on the China-exclusive Tencent WeGame PC launcher. Previous to launch, Alinea Analytics analyst Rhys Elliott estimated Phantom Blade Zero to have offered over 1m copies earlier than it had even launched.
It was all the time clear the third-person character motion recreation was going to be a success, we simply needed to watch for precise figures to be launched.
Phantom Blade Zero attracted over 431,000 concurrent gamers on Steam at launch, a determine that saved risking and rising into the weekend, in the end settling at a large 833,921 peak concurrent (through SteamDB). Simply in case it wasn’t already clear, that is Steam’s greatest launch of the yr to date, beating the likes of Forza Horizon 6 and much outpacing all different main releases akin to Onimusha: Manner of the Sword, The Blood of Dawnwalker, and Ace Fight 8.
Regardless of the very sturdy opening weekend’s numbers, Phantom Blade Zero has not been capable of match or exceed the efficiency of Black Delusion: Wukong, 2024’s also-Chinese language developed triple-A motion recreation, simply but. The breakout hit, estimated to have offered 30m copies since, is one among Steam’s largest debuts ever, peaking at 2,415,714 concurrent gamers at launch.
In Eurogamer’s Phantom Blade Zero overview, Emma Kent spoke extremely of a lot of the sport, however was crucial of its underwhelming narrative and lack of consistency, writing: “This recreation is phenomenal in so many areas – the animations, the gorgeous environments – and when the fight works, the sense of move is unbelievable. Then you definitely stroll right into a boss battle and really feel all that energy fade, such as you’re ready your flip to get hits in with a picket sword.”