Square Enix's RPG series Octopath Traveler has reached another sales milestone - with the Japanese company announcing total global shipments and digital sales have now surpassed the five million mark.
The first game featuring the HD-2D aesthetic was originally released as a Switch exclusive in 2018 and was followed by the sequel Octopath Traveler II last year. Here's the official update from Square Enix in the form of new artwork by Rika Okazaki:
Along with this, there's currently a sale on both games in select regions. You can learn more about these role-playing games in our reviews here on Nintendo Life - we gave both titles an "excellent" nine out of ten stars.
"Though it may be more of the same, Team Asano demonstrates mastery of its craft at every turn here. We’d give Octopath Traveler II a high recommendation to anybody looking for a beautiful new RPG to add to their Switch collection."
Apart from the first and second Octopath Traveler games, Square Enix has also released a mobile title Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent, which acts as a prequel to the original release.
Have you contributed to this sales success? Let us know in the comments.
[source x.com, via gematsu.com]
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I would not have expected this game to do so well. It has beautiful artwork and I’m not generally a fan of the HD-2D style.
I was worried the second game wouldn't reach as many people due to certain divisive opinions about the first one, but I'm glad to see the series is doing well - especially with the information coming from SE, which tends to have pretty high expectations for game sales.
Congrats, here's to another Octopath Traveler sequel. Really enjoy these old school style RPGs with generic title name.
Cool, not really my kind of game but why would I not want it to sell well.
Just bought #2 on cyber Monday at EB for $35 CDN for the switch 🥳 got almost 100 hours into it already....2 is better but one is better looking and the zones are bigger, the blowing snow and your fading footprints as you ran across the snowy wilderness had me in awe... some of those small details are missing from #2 but both soundtracks omg🥰
Amazing game.
I am a huge fan of these games. 2 was the better game, and I hope the series continues improving. I was really happy the developers took fans' concerns into account and made improvements.
Love to hear it, so looking forward to playing Octopath and its sequel myself when I can and I can't wait to see what's next for this series!
Alfyn and Partitio were both my starting characters so seeing them cheersing a drink is awesome. Octopath 2 is probably my top 3 favourite games on the Switch with the first one in top 10. Great series and well deserved.
Well done Tressa and Partitio! Keep selling those copies!
The second one is worth playing just for Temenos- one of the best written and fun characters in the whole genre in my opinion. Hopefully when it comes to another Octopath game, doubt is not something we'll have to do for much longer.
Started playing Octopath 1 recently and having an amazing time! Well earned 5m copies.
Other SE titles achieving this have been considered failures though. Perhaps game budgets should max out at whatever would still be profitable at such a sales figure.
Big congratulations to Octopath Traveler and SE, and I'm looking forward to a third entry within the next few years!
@Thomystic I still think this will be considered a positive accomplishment since it's a more niche series, as well as a newer IP.
@Dirty_Croc I agree actually, random encounters is the most difficult part for me as well. I'm actually hoping Octopath Traveler III experiments with roaming pixel enemies!
@Dirty_Croc there is a equippable skill that reduces the random encounters to a decent frequency to not make the game so tedious with the random encounters
IMO well deserved. Haven't played Octo 1 but Octo 2 is amazing and has one of the best OSTs ever.
Eyyyy, my two favorite characters.
Well earned. Great series.
@xshinox Well sure, but how long does it take to acquire the skill itself? Let alone know where to look for it in the game world!
@Ulysses not hard to get. It's a Scholar passive skill and Osvald is the best scholar/black mage imo
Please, please, please make #3!
The PlayStation and the Xbox having different games for a good portion of the time 2 was out is a weird choice, but I guess it worked out for aquire in the end. I got 2 earlier this year but still haven't played more than the 30 mins I spent on the demo last year. Seeing this at closing time, really does solidify the fact I believe 2024 was one of the best years for RPGs I've ever personally experienced.
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