Dead Island 2, the open world zombie-slaying adventure that was in development for over a decade, has passed one million in sales – yes, already.
On Monday, publisher Deep Silver announced that Dead Island 2 sold more than a million units in barely three days since its launch on Friday, April 21, 2023. Incredibly, players managed to accumulate 11 million hours in playtime and cut down roughly 1.1 billion zombies within the launch window.
The numbers are quite staggering, mainly because Dead Island 2 saw numerous delays shortly before launch – it seems all that extra development time was well worth it, though.
HELL-A welcomed over a million Slayers during its launch weekend.
That's mind-blowing. Thank you! #DeadIsland #SeeYouInHELLA pic.twitter.com/zcowIPTM3C— Dead Island (@deadislandgame) April 24, 2023
Revealed back at PlayStation’s 2014 press conference, Dead Island 2 went through one of the most troubled development schedules in video game history. Initially, Yager Development led the project for three years but gave it up in July 2015. Then, Sumo Digital took over development in March 2016 before handing it off to Dambuster Studios sometime in 2019.
Many (understandably) thought the game would never come out, but it’s finally here – but it’s finally here – and pretty good to boot! It’s rare for a game to be in production for that long to come out at all, so the success is well-earned.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.
