Children of the Sun received enormous amounts of media coverage and exceptional reviews. It peaked at 208 players on its launch day yesterday, which means it will probably sell around 5,000 units in the next 7 days. Undoubtedly below expectations for Devolver.
Chuffed to see Children of the Sun's Followers spike since this Tweet. It's jumped from 5,352 followers, to 7,325. Lovely to see folks jumping on board. Almost 2,000 can be on around an extra 24,000 wishlists using standard medians.
@PersistentWorld Thanks for you interest. The game has exceeded your first week prediction already and is well on it's way to success. We're quite pleased with the reception and partnering with solo developers on small projects is foundational to our label.
@PersistentWorld I was one of those 208. The launch surprised me, I saw it on @SkillUpYT weekly and then boom it was almost a shadow drop. Wonder if that's feeling of others and just not aware of release?
@PersistentWorld Enormous amounts? First time I heard of it was this morning when I opened opencritic looking to see if reviews of Broken Roads were up.
@PersistentWorld Whilst, as you say, media coverage was high - be interested to hear your thoughts on difficulty of surfacing said coverage, or even the game itself, which I also feel had a huge impact. Social algo’s are hot garbage at the moment, yet social was/is one of our biggest tools.