Palworld’s astonishing success swelled over the weekend, with the ‘Pokémon with guns’ survival and crafting game shooting up Steam’s most-played games list and selling millions more copies.
04.01.2024 - 19:05 / gamingbolt.com / Rosalind Myers / Kurt Hansen
CD Projekt RED has announced that Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty sold over five million copies last year. The expansion topped three million units sold within its first week and received extensive acclaim from critics and fans.
Phantom Liberty offers a substantial new story set in Dogtown, a lawless district under the purview of former NUSA colonel Kurt Hansen. After President Rosalind Myers’ shuttle goes down in the district, V works with the mysterious Songbird to help out. Things eventually turn into a spy game with betrayals and intrigue.
The expansion features over 100 new items, including new weapons and Cyberware, while adding new activities like Courier Missions and Airdrops. Check out our review here for more details. Cyberpunk 2077 also received the massive Update 2.0, which revamped the game’s core elements, like the police system and added vehicular combat. You can head here to learn more and read about the metro system added in Update 2.1.
Over 5 million agents have infiltrated Dogtown!
Palworld’s astonishing success swelled over the weekend, with the ‘Pokémon with guns’ survival and crafting game shooting up Steam’s most-played games list and selling millions more copies.
Palworld’s riotous success has been startling to see. Following its early access launch last week, it’s surpassed key sales milestone at an alarming rate, and at last count, stood at 4 million copies sold in just three days. Unsurprisingly, that’s reflected in its player engagement numbers as well.
Palworld’s astonishing success swelled over the weekend, with the ‘Pokémon with guns’ survival and crafting game shooting up Steam’s most-played games list and selling millions more copies.
CD Projekt Red may be teasing the location for 's sequel — currently codenamed Project Orion — and potentially the year it's set in. If so, the sequel could take place in a futuristic version of a real-world location, being a departure from 's completely fictional Night City.
Palworld continues its record-breaking early access ascent, passing juggernauts such as Cyberpunk 2077 on Steam's all-time charts.
Eye-catching 'Pokémon with guns' survival game Palworld has already sold a staggering 1m copies according to its developer Pocketpair, just hours into its early access launch on Steam and Xbox Series X/S. That's as the studio addresses the lack of 32-player dedicated servers on Xbox and PC Game Pass, saying the situation is «not up to us».
allows players to dive into the rich, seedy world of Night City, and while its expansion,, added an extra level with the tourist destination-turned-combat zone, Dogtown, there is still one area that could flesh out the world even further. The expansion of wealthier areas such as North Oak in Night City.
Cyberpunk 2077’s Phantom Liberty expansion has been successful for CD Projekt RED, selling over five million copies last year. However, perhaps more impressive is the attach rate, which co-CEO Michał Nowakowski confirmed is approximately 23 percent to IGN.
CD Projekt has deemed Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty a commercial success after revealing it hit similar numbers to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt's expansions, Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine.
Hogwarts Legacy, the RPG set within the Potterverse, sold over 22 million copies in 2023. Speaking to Variety, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment president David Haddad claimed that it was the best-selling game of the said year and that about 2 million of those sales were made during the Christmas holiday season, presumably owing to heavy discounts. Despite his statement, several developers in the industry, including Larian Studios (Baldur's Gate 3) and Activision (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3) have yet to reveal the latest sales numbers; so, take the claims with a grain of salt.
With the holiday season now behind us, folks are settling back to work, including the CD Projekt Red team, who are kicking off the new year by kickstarting work on Project Orion, aka the sequel to Cyberpunk 2077.
Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty has performed just as well as The Witcher 3's DLC offerings despite being released years after the base game.