We don’t yet know the official sales figures for Dynasty Warriors Origins, but it seems that the game is off to an excellent start. Based on SteamDB numberswe see a peak of 69,318 players simultaneously during the weekend of its release. Currently, at the time of writing, the game is being played by 53,556 players simultaneously, which represents the biggest success of a KOEI Tecmo game in its existence. This makes it the Japanese publisher’s second largest release on Steam in terms of concurrent players, behind Wu Long Fallen Dynasty (75,900 players connected at the same time), Nioh 2 (41,300), Wild Hearts (28,500) , Romance of the Three Kingdoms 8 Remake (18,900) and Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIV (16,400).
Producer Tomohiko Sho and his teams must be in heaven right now, they who were under enormous pressure to have to relaunch a franchise that is almost 30 years old and which has been lost along the way in recent years, with a completely new Dynasty Warriors 9 episode. next to its pumps (rated 8/10 in the columns of Jeuxactu). But by rebooting the franchise, eliminating the bad elements, going back to basics and drawing inspiration from Souls-like elements without disguising itself, Dynasty Warriors was able to seduce the press and the public. The game comes out with a score of 80% on Metacritic, an average obtained on the basis of 53 reviews, while players give it a score of 8/10.
A perfectly favorable alignment of opinions, to which we can add the mention “Very positive” (94%) on Steam based on more than 5,000 opinions. According to Steam Scout, which analyzes both direct purchases through Steam and key activations, 57.12% of all reviews are written in simplified Chinese. This is not surprising given the popularity of the Three Kingdoms story in China (and Musô games in general). The other languages which posted and commented on the most on Steam were then English (21.9%), traditional Chinese (10%), Korean (4.65%) and Japanese (3.05%). It should also be noted that Dynasty Warriors is historically a console franchise, which means that success must be even greater. In its global version, the Dynasty Warriors license has sold more than 21 million copies worldwide.
