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[LakeOf9]

As of today, the game has sold 15 million copies, Team Cherry told me, making it one of the most successful independent video games ever.

Why ‘Silksong’ Took Seven Years to Make

The highly anticipated indie game has been in production for so long that it’s become an internet meme

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Crazy number for a great game!

 

[LordOcidax]

 

[hemo memo]

Well deserved. Great game.

 

[HYDE]

I wonder how many people bought this at least 3 times. Because I personally own it on Switch, PS4/PS5, and XSeries. Plus millions of others own it on Steam

 

[TerribleAtThisGame]

I'll applaud that shit for any Indie dev doing their own thing. Bravo. Roll in the cash.

Edit: can't spell

 

[Zacfoldor]

Excellent game. Well deserved imho.

 

[Fbh]

Even assuming many of those copies were sold on sale, they made millions from this and it was only a 3 person team.
That's probably also a reason why they weren't in a rush to release the sequel.

 

[Magic Carpet]

It's not in my Epic store library, so I don't think they gave it away for free. But I played it somewhere, I just don't own it.
Must have been PS+ and or Gamepass.

 

[lughnasadh123]

Great game that's just cheap enough for multiplat purchases. Smart. Silksong should hit some big numbers too. I'm curious if they keep going with this or try something new.

 

[Robb]

Good to hear, I enjoyed it a lot back when I played it.

 

[Draugoth]

Might as well finally play it

 

[LavitzSlambert]

Incredible that 12 million of those sales were after 2019's Silksong announcement. I thought the game had been a big success to begin with, but that kind of performance years after release is amazing. They did put it on PS+ Essential in November 2020, not sure if that's included but let's say no.

15,000,000 x 7.50 (lowest historical sale price) = $112,500,000 in revenue on the low end (compared to $225 million upper limit full price purchases). Life changing money that continued to pour in, enough to sustain development indefinitely and allow the team to work the way they want to and ensure the game is up to quality standards.

I love it - the game, the team, their story, and Schreier's article is a great short piece on their journey to release. I'll be interested to see if the game is still built with Unity but would have thought they'd allude to that (not directly of course) as rework, which does not sound like the case. If so that's refreshing that it truly was only their passion and a lack of urgency to push the game out the door that delayed things so long.

 

[Dacvak]

God damn that's a lot of moolah! Well deserved for such an awesome game. I hope Silksong can live up to the hype.

 

[Spukc]

Yup and out of fucking 15 million colors.
This game picked 4

Fuck this game

 

[Raven77]

Good game, extremely overrated.

Far too much confusing back tracking and the rate at witch you gain new abilities is too slow for a true Metroidvania.

Making progress takes ages, not because you're exploring the world, but because your backtracking through it for the 10th time.

Solid 8/10

 

[Dr. Suchong]

Imagine that....





15 million people, wishing they'd bought Sotn instead.

 

[mèx]

The game is extremely overrated but you can't deny the effort and passion that went into making it. Cheers to them.