Highlights
- Newly-released Lords of the Fallen has sold 1 million units in just 10 days, despite mixed reviews and reaction from the Soulslike community.
- Its sales success indicates a demand for more Soulslike games, with fans likely to see more entries in the genre in the future.
- The game's success may lead to potential DLC releases or updates that address feedback, bugs, and improve the game for its dedicated fans.
Newly-released Soulslike game Lords of the Fallen has managed to pass 1 million units sold within 10 days of its launch on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X. Lords of the Fallen has been a long time coming. The original game was launched in 2014, serving as a slightly easier take on FromSoftware's Dark Souls formula and earning mixed reviews for its approach to the genre. A sequel has been in the works in some capacity ever since, but was trapped in development hell.
The new Lords of the Fallen has finally launched a whopping seven years after the original game. It retains the name and dark medieval fantasy vibes of the original, while cranking up the difficulty. Lords of the Fallen has earned mixed reviews from critics, and has received a mixed reaction from the Soulslike community in general, but that clearly hasn't stopped the tough-as-nails action-RPG from being a sales success.
Lords of the Fallen Temporarily Disables Important Feature
Hexworks has removed a key feature in Lords of the Fallen while the studio investigates issues raised by several players.
CI Games has officially confirmed that Lords of the Fallen has sold 10 million units within the first 10 days of its release. While Lords of the Fallen isn't a brand-new IP like other recent Soulslike success Lies of P, it's been so long since the original game's release that it's unlikely the new game was sold based on any brand power. Its sales success is a clear indication that gamers want more Soulslikes, and so fans should expect plenty more entries in the genre to hit store shelves in the years to come.
The big sales success currently enjoyed by Lords of the Fallen could potentially have an impact on the game's future. Lords of the Fallen DLC has not been announced at the time of this writing, but one has to imagine that DLC could be on the cards now that the game has managed to sell an impressive 1 million units. Even if substantial DLC doesn't come, fans can at least expect more Lords of the Fallen updates that work to address feedback, squash bugs, and generally improve the game for its dedicated fans.
Lords of the Fallen may have earned mixed reviews, but the game has some unique ideas that have helped it feel like a breath of fresh air in the Soulslike space in some ways. For instance, Lords of the Fallen has a dual-realm feature where players are able to swap between the land of the living and the land of the dead. Not only that, but the game features a robust co-op mode that's a bit more fully-featured than co-op in other Soulslikes. Lords of the Fallen co-op has experienced some technical difficulties in the game's early days that have prevented players from taking full advantage of the feature, but fixes should be on the way.
Lords of the Fallen is out now for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X.
