Using demo, pre-order, wishlist, and follower data to zoom in on some notable Steam games coming in the last three months of the year.
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Phantom Blade Zero (Oct 28) is sitting on 2.4M Steam wishlists and 110K followers. It’s already sold 386K copies on Steam pre-launch, for $18.5M. That’s a 16%-ish wishlist-to-pre-order conversion before the game is even out (!!!) Putting pre-orders live when that epic 11-minute State of Play hit was a smart move, and the studio (S-Game) says pre-orders “far exceeded expectations.” As we covered here, the wuxia action-RPG is ticking many of the same boxes as Black Myth: Wukong, its most obvious spiritual predecessor as the next big Chinese action game, and it’s going to be huge – albeit not as big as that – in China. It also looks rad.