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#Requiem passes the 1 million gamers milestone – Destructoid

Requiem passes the 1 million gamers milestone – Destructoid

Plague Story‘s million gamers nonetheless don’t outnumber the rats, although

A Plague Story is at all times a kind of recreation sequence I’m glad to see is doing properly, as a result of the video games present a pleasant new perspective within the business. A number of years in the past in case you had advised me one of many protagonists of a preferred motion recreation franchise have been a teenaged lady and her youthful brother as they evade hoards of bloodthirsty rats, I doubtless wouldn’t have believed you.

The studio behind the video games, Focus Leisure, has introduced through Twitter that A Plague Story: Requiem has surpassed 1 million gamers, which is at all times a formidable milestone for an indie recreation. The sport was formally launched on October 18th, so it’s additionally fairly telling that it was in a position to surpass that quantity just a few weeks after its launch, as properly. The announcement tweet gave a form “thanks” to the million gamers who’ve “launched into an unimaginable journey with Amicia and Hugo.”

The Plague Story video games actually don’t appear like what we usually count on from indie titles, particularly in terms of the graphics. Instances have actually modified for smaller studios, as a result of they’re proving time and time once more that they’ll maintain their very own in opposition to a number of the largest corporations round, not simply because they’ll sustain with the graphical constancy avid gamers have turn into used to, but additionally as a result of they design attention-grabbing, compelling, and easily well-made video games that preserve us coming again many times.

It’s been an excellent yr for indie video games, as a result of different titles like Cult of the Lamb additionally hit the 1 million mark, and whereas Trombone Champ didn’t fairly attain that degree, it was nonetheless one of the vital in-demand and talked about video games we’ve seen shortly. I imply, folks severely calling a foolish trombone rhythm recreation a Recreation of the Yr contender speaks the standard of titles that indie studios are placing out, for my part.

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