Top before release: Stellar Blade demo already sells the game on PC better than most AAA projects can imagine

Even before its full release on PC, Stellar Blade has already gained a huge audience. The demo version of the hit action game has gained momentum so that a week before the release, it is already third in the global top sales on Steam. And it's no joke - only two giant franchises have beaten it: Counter-Strike 2 and the new chapter in Elden Ring (Nightreign).

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At the time of writing, Stellar Blade has not yet been released on PC, but it has already attracted more attention than many full-fledged AAA releases. The game's demo, which was released in late May, received more than 3,100 user reviews on Steam - 91% of them positive.

Even more interestingly, more than 26,000 players played the demo simultaneously. For comparison, this is almost twice as many as the launch figures for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.

This is not the first triumph of the project: earlier on PlayStation 5, the game has already shown good results and brought Shift Up to a new peak of popularity, and the studio is already working on a sequel, which is only possible with successful projects.

Stellar Blade will be released on PC on 12 June.

Source: Steam