A bit like the bodycount in the game itself, Dynasty Warriors: Origins has surpassed the 1 million mark, although in this case it’s 1 million copies sold rather than a million bodies littering the ground.
Admittedly, we can’t know if Koei Tecmo considers this a success as we don’t know their expectations. However, the series has never been a massive seller and by its standards, 1 million copies is pretty substantial. For example, Dynasty Warriors 9, released in 2018, sold around 800,000 copies, although it’s hard to find solid sales figures.
Earlier this year we also learned from Koei Tecmo that the Dynasty Warriors series as a whole had surpassed 21 million copies sold.
Tomohiko Sho, the head of developer Omega Force, took to X to thank fans for the success. The following is translated using Google translate: “We’ve surpassed the one million mark, and I’m very happy that so many people have been able to enjoy ‘Dynasty Warriors ORIGINS’!” he exclaimed in a tweet. “As an individual, I hope that this game will be enjoyed by even more game fans, and that it will lead to the creation of DLC, sequels, and more in the future.”
Quite a bit of the game’s popularity seems to have been on PC. A quick look at SteamDB shows that Origins had just under 70,000 people playing concurrently at one point. And as I write this, it had a peak concurrent player count of 22,000 in the last 24 hours, an impressive number consider it came out a month ago.
The user reviews are glowing, too. It’s currently got 92% positive reviews, giving it a “Very Positive” rating from over 10,500 reviews. Not bad. And if you feel like it, why not check out my review, written from the perspective of a newcomer?
