Star Wars Zero Firm, the XCOM-like turn-based techniques sport from Bit Reactor, seems to have been successful, promoting greater than 1m copies, in accordance with estimates from industry analyst Alinea Analytics.
It is a notable achievement for Star Wars Zero Firm, however the gross sales milestone is very pertinent towards the backdrop of “most” of Bit Reactor’s development team being furloughed without pay before the game’s release. This was reportedly a consequence of a dispute between the studio’s homeowners, in addition to an absence of funds, so it raises the query now of whether or not the crew can be reinstated and paid utilizing income generated by gross sales of the sport.
Star Wars Zero Firm’s most profitable platform has been Steam, with a dominating 69.9 % of copies bought, adopted by 19.9 % on PlayStation and 10.2 % on Xbox – together with copies bought by Xbox on PC.
Alinea’s Rhys Elliott estimated that Zero Firm made about $50m (~£37m) in income because it launched on twenty seventh August, which he stated is “respectable for this style and through such a crowded interval (even with the Star Wars model hooked up)”.
By the way, whereas Zero Firm bought fewer copies on console, it made extra money per individual there, just because, as Elliott famous: “Console gamers pay extra per copy.”
The overwhelming majority of Zero Firm’s viewers – 90 % – is break up between North America and Europe, with solely 5 % in Asia, in accordance with Alinea’s breakdown. Maybe that is a mirrored image of Star Wars’ personal recognition on the earth. Zero Firm’s success additionally places it in the top-five-earning games of 2026 based on a major intellectual property (IP). The most important incomes, by some margin, is James Bond sport 007 First Gentle, with $309.8m (~£233m). Zero Firm is simply the newest of recently-released video games to cross the million gross sales milestone. The Blood of Dawnwalker and Onimusha: Way of the Sword have been each launched across the similar time and have every bought over one million copies.
We’ve not reviewed Star Wars Zero Firm but, however are engaged on it. Nonetheless, Christian Donlan wrote enthusiastically concerning the sport after a couple of hours with it, saying: “Star Wars Zero Company understands that Star Wars games should feel less like the movies and more like the toys.”