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[Draugoth]

Embracer Group $EMBRAC has announced this milestone in their financial report.Dead Island 2 has been played by over 7 million people, including Xbox Game Pass subscribers.

In its fourth quarter and full-year fiscal report for 2024, The Embracer Group announced that Dead Island 2 has sold over three million units. It launched last year on April 21st, 2023, with over two million sales by May. This was after nearly a decade of delays, multiple developers and at least one major reboot.

 

[KaiserBecks]

Congrats to the developers. I haven’t played it, but after the development hell this game went through I expected it to bomb.

 

[adamsapple]

It's amazing how well the game turned out to be after its long and troubled development cycle.

 

[amigastar]

Is that good? I've read somewhere that AAA games have to sell about 10 Millions to be considered successful.

 

[Draugoth]

Is that good? I've read somewhere that AAA games have to sell about 10 Millions to be successful.

Probably not, considering for how long this game was in development

 

[sloppyjoe_gamer]

Supposedly PS5 version is $19.99 at Best Buy during their Memorial Day sale this weekend coming........i may snag this

 

[MiguelItUp]

It's amazing how well the game turned out to be after its long and troubled development cycle.

Honestly it's really impressive. We've seen many a game go through development hell and barely make it out at the end. I was shocked this was as enjoyable as it was.

 

[Luipadre]

Im playing it on game pass and im loving it. Its just so fun to play and kill the zombies

 

[xrnzaaas]

Good result, one of the most fun games I've played in the last few years, way more fun than Dying Light 2 despite much lower production values. I'll be definitely picking up Dead Island 3 from the same team.

 

[Evil Calvin]

Fun game. Bought it at launch. Played some more over the past weekend.

 

[Dazraell]

Glad to hear Dead Island 2 ultimately ended with success, considering all of behind the scenes schenanigans

 

[TheUsual]

Looks like DamBuster will be adding more content down the line. They announced on X they've had over 7 million players (so big on Gamepass???) and will announce update plans in the coming months.

Game is great fun. Just scratched an itch I didn't know I even had.

 

[Mr Wonderstuff]

Just started this. Blimey its very linear so far.

 

[SmokedMeat]

Deserves to be higher.

Combat is ultra satisfying. Damage modeling is well beyond everything else.

 

[Kupfer]

Amazing game, my GOTY 2023.
It's pure stupid fun slasher with nice gore-tech and moody atmophere.

Okay, what a ride. Finished it some days ago, took me like 25ish hours for the campaign and another like 10 hours to clean up and get the platin trophy. All in all 35hours which didn't feel too long or wasted.
This is my GOTY so far. Great slasher, I got what I expected. Way more fun to play than the first Dead Island or Riptide, even solo. Some missions are top notch with a dense atmosphere, some are just silly and trashy, but I took them with a smirk.
A game you can play from start to finish without a single bug, without an ingame store or stupid MTX.
This just felt old-school.

 

[Little Chicken]

3 million sold and 7 million players is impressive for a game with that development history. It's great fun too.

 

[Mr Reasonable]

Is that good? I've read somewhere that AAA games have to sell about 10 Millions to be considered successful.

Spiderman 2 had budget that was shockingly high, and that had a break even at something like 7-8m copies. So this has likely done pretty well.


On topic, this game is good. I played it on Gamepass and bought the DLC (haven't played the second piece yet but the first one was substantial enough - would recommend to players who liked the base campaign).

 

[poodaddy]

Good for them. I was very excited for the game, and I'm glad I got to play it through Gamepass. Incredible gore system and it's a damn nice looking game, great achievement. I must begrudgingly admit that I got bored of it after ten hours and just dropped it, but it was a decent time and I'm happy for the devs and their success. If you like first person brawlers and gore, this game is a must, just be aware that the gameplay loop doesn't really change and can get old fairly quickly.