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Have you been playing Stellar Blade? If not, you may be some kind of statistical outlier, as Shift Up recently came out and announced<\/a> that the game had sold over 1 million copies on PC in its first three days alone.<\/p>\n

Which isn’t bad. I’ve never done a million of anything, let alone in three days, so a tip of the hat to the team on that one. No wonder the game crept into Steam’s top 100 all-time most-played by concurrent players<\/a> last weekend. It took the 81st spot on Sunday with 192,078 players online at once.<\/p>\n

Across all platforms, Stellar Blade has sold 3 million copies across its lifetime. So hey, not bad going for us\u2014we make up fully \u2153 of the game’s sales after just a few days of availability. Don’t underestimate PC gamers: we are pathologically unable to not spend money on things.<\/p>\n

Per analyst Daniel Ahmad (via Gamespot<\/a>), Stellar Blade can attribute the majority of its desktop success to China, where people are apparently going hog-wild for the game. Its PC Chinese dub wasn’t available on console until the PC version launched and\u2014in the mighty renminbi\u2014the game costs a trifling $38.<\/p>\n

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Majority of PC sales from China thanks to Chinese dub (not on console) and regional pricing ($38 vs $60)June 16, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Alas, our own reviewer wasn’t quite as hot on the game as the nation of China apparently is. Our Mollie Taylor handed out a score of 68% in our Stellar Blade review<\/a> and said what, while it “may be the smoothest, most optimised PC port I’ve played in a hot sec,” it suffers from “a middling story and a painful tutorial level” and\u2014in general\u2014a feeling that it wasn’t doing much you hadn’t seen done better before. Still, it’s a “decently solid soulslite,” and honestly? Sometimes that’s all you’re looking for.<\/p>\n

Well, that and like 400 skimpy outfits and a bunch of alarmingly adult mods<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Have you been playing Stellar Blade? If not, you may be some kind of statistical outlier, as Shift Up recently came out and announced that the game had sold over 1 million copies on PC in its first three days alone. Which isn’t bad. I’ve never done a million of anything, let alone in three days, so a tip of the hat to the team on that one. No wonder the game crept into Steam’s top 100 all-time most-played by concurrent players last weekend. It took the 81st spot on Sunday with 192,078 players online at once. Across all platforms, Stellar Blade has sold 3 million copies across its lifetime. So hey, not bad going for us\u2014we make up fully \u2153 of the game’s sales…<\/p>\n

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