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Ready or Not Tops 10 Million Sales in Under Four Days of Console Launch

Platform-mandated edits prompted mixed Steam reviews despite rising player numbers.

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Overview

  • Ready or Not sold over 1 million console copies in just 3.6 days, pushing total lifetime sales past 10 million units.
  • Developers applied uniform edits to gore, nudity and violence across PC and consoles to comply with platform certification policies and support cross-play.
  • Steam reviews shifted to mixed as some players review-bombed the game in protest of the content adjustments.
  • Concurrent Steam player counts climbed from under 6,000 to around 40,000 over the past month, nearing the game’s all-time peak.
  • A fan-made mod restoring the original content was released within 20 minutes of the update and has been widely adopted.