10 hours left. Only 20 participants voted. It's the lowest participation I've seen in years (except for Itchmas events).

So, here we are now 24h after the release of Silksong. I guess it might still take a while before we get to know any sales numbers. I was wondering how often the game would sell in that time frame. See the post a bit higher up.

The peak so far on Steam were 540,547 concurrent players just now. I'm sure this number will continue to rise and peak on Sunday evening but that's outside the first 24h then.

I would claim it's a fair estimate that half a million concurrent players equal AT LEAST 1.2 million sales on Steam.

Silksong is (seems like) a game well suited for consoles and handhelds and I would therefore assume it sold well on PS, XBOX, and Switch. As there is zero information on sales/concurrent players for these plattforms/stores I just have to guess: I'd say another 2 million copies sold there.

And possibly a few ten or hundred thousands copies via GOG and Epic, especially since buying games on Steam was unavailable for like 2 hours after release and at least GOG was doing okay in that time.

Still, my 4.5 million guess might have been too high. 4.5 million copies in 24h would make it the forth most successful video game of all times (as measured with the metric "sales within 24h"). And it's a single player metroidvania after all that's available on Gamepass and has very little to zero official marketing. But yeah, I want to believe the hype carried the game. :)

I asked ChatGPT about it (just now) and it said "But 4.5M in 24h is essentially impossible for an indie title" and "A more realistic best-case: 500k–1M in 24h". Okay, 500k is too low obviously (see player count) but yeah, would <1 million people buying a game on Steam really crash the shop for 2h? Aren't there literally hundred thousand copies of games sold concurrently during the big sales?

What do you think? Way too late for you to enter the contest that comes with a surprise cash pool of 100 Euros that I am going to win confidently as the only official participant but hey, what is your guess?

Btw sorry for my many posts about Silksong. I'm not trying to fanboy, although I am a fanboy for HK and potentially for Silksong too (have only played for 1h so far), but I am genuinely just interested in the statistics/the hype/the situation.

Many of the games I've beaten pre 7th gen involves me using save states in some way. Mainstream games did start to get a difficulty reduction around 2005 with some outliers of course. The Meat Circus being the way it was due to devs not having enough time to polish the level at least that's how I remember it going.

Have fun at the meat circus, y'all. Genuinely one of the worst platforming levels I have seen in a game. Otherwise, this game is pretty great.

FYI

The PCGaming Wiki page has a lot of info, patches and fixes for this games.

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Psychonauts

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Finished it 100%. If there's anything I noticed about Kingdom Hearts at this point, your attack button will never feel the same after playing them from so much mashing lol. If you want to see my full review it's in the reviews.

Play Tomba! 2, I haven't played this game but I hope it's fun!

I'm glad to see that you enjoyed the game! It was quite a wild ride and I loved it.

SleepyPilloe: i believe i am tired