Order of the Sinking Star First-Week Sales Beat The Witness by 45 Percent on Steam
Blow's own disclosure, unit sales up 45 percent against a list price 25 percent lower, suggests the game is clearing more copies than The Witness did at launch while chasing comparable revenue.
Reporting from 1 source: Automaton.
Publisher Arc Games released Thekla's Order of the Sinking Star on PC via Steam on October 9. Jonathan Blow reported on October 16 that first-week Steam sales were 45 percent higher than The Witness's. The game costs 29.99 dollars, 25 percent below The Witness's 39.99 dollar list price. Blow spent about 10 years on the project and expects revenue to approach or eventually surpass The Witness.
Blow gave the comparison himself, one week after launch, at the same interval he once used for The Witness: sales significantly exceeded 100,000 copies across all platforms and revenue reached 5 million dollars in the first week of 2016. The new game carries a lower price, and Arc Games is also running bundles with titles such as Permafrost and Animal Well, so a higher unit count was expected. Blow still expects revenue to be comparable to The Witness, or to pass it eventually. No specific figure for the new game has been released, and PLAYISM is set to distribute it in Japan within the year.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.