[STEAM] Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 Sells 4.5 Million in Just Over a Month

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has sold 4.5 million copies, publisher Focus Entertainment has announced.

The Saber Interactive-developed action game set in Games Workshop’s grimdark science fiction universe had already broken records upon its launch on September 9, becoming the most-played Warhammer 40,000 or Warhammer video game ever released on Steam with huge peak concurrent player counts. Now, a little over a month after launch, Space Marine 2 has hit 4.5 million players.

Last month, Saber Chief Creative Officer Tim Willits told IGN

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. At the time, Willits wouldn’t go into hard numbers, either in revenue or profit terms, but did go on the record to say

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, and that includes all the *****, Quake, Wolfenstein, and Rage games id Software released over the 24 years he was at the studio.

Speaking to IGN, Willits revealed that the budget for Space Marine 2 was less than half that of ***** Eternal, the last game he was id Software studio director on before leaving to join Saber in 2019. It seems likely that Space Marine 2, whose standard edition currently costs $59.99 on Steam and $69.99 on console, is already a highly profitable endeavor for all involved.

There are already ideas floating around for the now inevitable Space Marine 3, but in the shorter term Space Marine 2 has a confirmed Year 1 roadmap of post-launch support to deliver. Speaking of which, Focus has confirmed

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, the new Neo-Volkite *******, and the hotly anticipated Dark Angels chapter cosmetic pack. But that’s not all that’s coming to Space Marine 2.

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, and even an unannounced new Thousand Sons ****** type.

Saber recently released

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, which made

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. Season 2 is set to kick off by the end of October.

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at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at [email protected] or confidentially at *****@*****.tld.

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