Phantom Blade Zero Sells 4 Million Copies in Three Days

Phantom Blade Zero has had a strong start. Developer S-Game's action RPG launched on October 29 for PC and PlayStation 5, and the studio says it sold more than 4 million copies in its first 72 hours. That works out to roughly 926 sales every minute, or about 15 every second, across the three days.

The studio thanked players in a social media post, writing, "Thank you everyone from the bottom of our hearts for all the love and support." The figure covers both platforms. The game is not on Xbox, so the numbers come entirely from PC and PS5 buyers.

Steam activity was just as striking. The game reached a record 833,921 concurrent users on the platform on November 1, a sign that launch-weekend interest extended well past the initial release day. S-Game is based in China, and most of the game's preorders came from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, so the launch was built on a strong base in Greater China before wider international attention arrived.

The result is impressive, but it sits well below some recent benchmarks from the same region. Black Myth: Wukong, also from a Chinese developer, sold 10 million copies in its first three days. Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom reached the same 10 million mark in that window. Phantom Blade Zero is a smaller, more focused release by comparison, and its sales are a solid result rather than a record-setting one.

Its reception has also helped. GameSpot's review praised the game's Wuxia-inspired combat, with reviewer Richard Wakeling writing that it "puts you in the middle of a Chinese action movie." Players who are new to the game can find walkthroughs and guides covering character power and rare item locations on the site's hub.