It’s been a good week for Embracer Group and Saber Interactive: after the publisher/developer combo announced that Evil Dead: The Game sold 500,000 units in under a week, it’s become clear that there’s an appetite for all things multiplayer horror – a trend helped into popularity by the runaway success of games like Dead by Daylight.
During Embracer Group’s Q4 Report presentation, Saber Interactive CEO Matthew Karch was asked about the launch of Evil Dead: The Game, with the host of the presentation bringing up the game’s review scores… which he says “aren’t fantastic, but for the genre are quite solid”.
In response, Karch notes that the Saber team is “pleasantly surprised” by the scores to date, which have – to date – exceeded the team’s internal targets. “The other thing we’ve learned,” Karch continues, “is that the days of a Metacritic score determining how well a game sells are long gone.”
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