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It’s official - Unicorn Overlord has sold over 1 million units worldwide!

To celebrate this huge milestone, here is a special Berengaria, Melisandre, and Rosalinde illustration from Vanillaware’s Takashi Noma.

 

[Dacvak]

Pretty awesome a fairly niche genre like tactics JRPG can hit a million. I’ve heard nothing but good things about this game.

 

[Danjin44]

Well deserved, still my personal GOTY.

 

[nial]

Amazing to see Vanillaware doing great.

 

[TheDarkPhantom]

Got the plat trophy, one of my faves this year. I wish those numbers were higher but if SEGA/Atlus/Vanillaware consider it a success then that's all that really matters

 

[ToneyJ]

Huge W.

 

[Danjin44]

Got the plat trophy, one of my faves this year. I wish those numbers were higher but if SEGA/Atlus/Vanillaware consider it a success then that's all that really matters

It’s new IP with niche genre and came out same month as FFVII Rebirth, so I would say it did great.

 

[Fake]

Good.

 

[Bernardougf]

How are you using X my shitty country brother

 

[InterMusketeer]

Did my part, though I haven't finished it yet.

 

[Rentahamster]

Good. I still have to try it.

 

[demonstr8]

Great game - very unique and fun to make up your party and their positions and watch them kick ass.

 

[Vyse]

I did my part! Great game.

 

[NanaMiku]

Congrats! Vanillaware is the best.
All their games are great
No sequels

 

[Deerock71]

I'll likely double dip sooner or later.

 

[CrustyBritches]

Lovely game. Glad they're seeing success with it. Now would be a good time to release a PC version with a Steam Deck settings profile.

 

[Danjin44]

Congrats! Vanillaware is the best.
All their games are great
No sequels

Not only that they also tackle different genres with each their games and they put their own money on the line when they go over budget…..not many devs do this.

There is devs like Vanillaware.

 

[Rhazer Fusion]

Impressive. I enjoyed the demo. I gotta pick this up soon. Backlog and stuff.

 

[Codeblew]

I have this on my psn wishlist but haven't pulled the trigger yet.

 

[foamdino]

Great news for a great game.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Well deserved, still my personal GOTY.

Wish it was 5 Million

 

[bender]

I'm responsible for three of million.

 

[Seyken]

Got the plat trophy, one of my faves this year. I wish those numbers were higher but if SEGA/Atlus/Vanillaware consider it a success then that's all that really matters

These are actually very good numbers for such a niche title. The one company that should take a look at these numbers and worry is Square Enix.

FF7 Rebirth released in the same month, cost a truckload of money to make and was a VERY good game, yet only managed to sell probably around 2.5 million copies so far. If you told me a few years ago that something like this would happen to Final Fantasy, and Final Fantasy 7 no less, I would've called you crazy and laughed at your face. But here we are.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Give us Muramasa Rebirth Remastered already Vanillaware you can do that while you work on your next masterpiece

 

[TheDarkPhantom]

These are actually very good numbers for such a niche title

That doesn't take away from the fact that I wanted the sales to be even greater

 

[cman]

Well deserved! Game is awesome!

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Get that bag Vanillaware! My personal GOTY and the only game I platinumed this year (I only do this if I really, really enjoy the game).

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Wish it was 5 Million

Let's make it 10 mil.

 

[Dr. Suchong]

Fantastic news!
My copy is still shrink wrapped on the shelf, but once I'm done with Triangle strategy I'm jumping into that delicious Vanilla infused goodness.
Kind of ironic, Vanillaware's games are certainly not Vanilla

 

[KiteGr]

I literally forgot to buy that one. Will it come to Steam?

 

[Cyberpunkd]

I literally forgot to buy that one. Will it come to Steam?

Maybe. TGS is just around the corner.

 

[Ridicululzz]

Game is so good! Glad Vanillaware is getting recognition

 

[Physiognomonics]

I did my part with the beautiful LE edition

 

[ap_puff]

Great game, but in the future I hope they focus on a more limited cast as it felt like a lot of characters weren't really given proper story arcs.

 

[NanaMiku]

I literally forgot to buy that one. Will it come to Steam?

Based on Vanillaware's track record, probably never.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

I literally forgot to buy that one. Will it come to Steam?

That's unlikely.

https://www.destructoid.com/unicorn-overlord-devs-talk-history-card-games-and-that-delicious-food/

"As a publisher, we would like to deliver it to PC users as well, but per our agreement with Vanillaware, we are only releasing on console. In other words, there are no plans to port it to PC currently"

 

[Shifty1897]

I literally forgot to buy that one. Will it come to Steam?

No, Atlus has said they would bring it to PC but their agreement with Vanillaware forbids it. Probably typical Japanese dev hangups about PC gaming: pirating and modding.

Edit: Beaten by 3 minutes.

 

[Cao Cao]

Will buy the game soon, just sad that I read it is way too easy even on hardest difficulty. I really need to be challenged to the limit in games.

 

[SirTerry-T]

Vanillaware are one of the few true "artisans" in this industry. Long may they continue.

 

[TintoConCasera]

Didn't really dig the game but I'm happy for them, the studio deserves success.

 

[Shifty1897]

Will buy the game soon, just sad that I read it is way too easy even on hardest difficulty. I really need to be challenged to the limit in games.

I'm the same way, I will say that the Expert difficulty does eventually ramp up in the last quarer to third of the game to a good challenge, it's just a shame it doesn't do that earlier.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Well deserved! Game is awesome!

Couldn't agree more! ~65 hours of pure (dark elf waifu) fun!

Also, tagging Celcius since I know he'll be happy with this news.

 

[Mister Wolf]

If they do an update for the Switch version when the Switch 2 releases then I'll buy it. Either that or release a PC version.

 

[Robb]

Not my type of game, but happy to see any Vanillaware game sell. They make cool stuff.

 

[Little Mac]

I should pick this up sometime soon. Played a little bit of the demo and remembering the music being really good.

 

[Labadal]

Good on them!

Can't wait to see what they cook up next.

 

[Punished Miku]

I bought it but still haven't started it. Maybe 2026.

 

[PanzerCute]

Deserved for the GOTY.

 

[Celcius]

This is Vanillaware's best game to date and I had a ton of fun playing it.
Glad to see that the title sold super well and I can't wait to see what they do next!
That new artwork is awesome too

 

[Saber]

Vanillaware deserves every bit of love.