Regardless of its success with the Silent Hill 2 remake (out now on Xbox Sequence X/S), Bloober Crew’s Cronos: The New Daybreak hasn’t fairly managed the identical gross sales numbers. Practically three months after launch, it’s now at 500,000 models offered with the developer thanking its gamers “from the underside of our hearts.”
It’s a big step up from the 200,000+ models offered on launch day, however not by a lot. After all, there are a number of causes for this, like launching simply two days earlier than Hole Knight: Silksong. Considerably ironic, contemplating it wasn’t fearful in regards to the long-awaited title affecting gross sales.
After all, the truth that different main releases adopted in subsequent weeks, together with Borderlands 4, Hades 2, and Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, in all probability didn’t assist both. That’s not even accounting for having to compete with established IPs like Dying Mild: The Beast and Silent Hill f, each of which went on to carry out fairly properly.
Cronos: The New Daybreak has since obtained a free PC demo – take a look at our evaluate for the sport right here. As for the longer term, Bloober Crew has confirmed that there gained’t be a sequel and it’s already begun pre-production on a brand new title, which will likely be a “very large sport in step with our technique.” There’s additionally Silent Hill 1 remake, primarily based on the 1999 survival horror that began all of it (and which seemingly started improvement about three years in the past).