Dead Island 2 Sales Top 1 Million Units in 3 Days - Sales

by William D'Angelo , posted on 24 April 2023 / 3,214 Views

Publisher Deep Silver and developer Dambuster Studios announced Dead Island 2 has sold over one million units worldwide in the first three days of release.

There have also been over 11 million total hours played, more than 28 million total number of player deaths, over 45 million zombies sliced in half, more than 756 million zombie limbs hacked off, and 1.1 billion total number of zombies slayed.

Dead Island 2 released for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC via Epic Games Store on April 21.

HELL-A welcomed over a million Slayers during its launch weekend.
That's mind-blowing. Thank you! #DeadIsland #SeeYouInHELLA pic.twitter.com/zcowIPTM3C
— Dead Island (@deadislandgame) April 24, 2023

A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.

9 Comments

Koragg (on 24 April 2023)

Epic Games Store exclusive. Disgusting.

BINARYGOD Koragg (on 26 April 2023)

it wouldnt be (games launch into other stores with no entry for sale elsewhere all the time), but you cannot trust purchases from them. I had zero issues, evne going outside of terms or before they even had return policies to begin with, getting returns on PS3/Xbox 360 or on Steam or the Xbox App or GoG - but I sure did on Epic. Apparently the amazingly rich developer of Unreal and one of the most widley played F2P games on the planet needs to nickle and dime.

Cool, so I shall keep their app installed and accept their "free" games (its not a gog purchase, so its a effectively a long term rental, perhaps with no charge), but never buy anythhing from them again.

Also - a game no available in GoG with downloadable installer option, is a crime against humanity.

shikamaru317 (on 24 April 2023)

That's not bad at all. It was never going to be as successful as Techland's (who made the original Dead Island) Dying Light 2, which sold 3m first week, people were always going to be skeptical of buying Dead Island 2 due to how long it was in dev hell and due to it's developer, Dambuster, who made the 50 meta Homefront: The Revolution before Dead Island 2, but Dead Island 2's good reviews (only about 2 points lower than Dying Light 2) really helped out it's sales it seems.

Giggity_goo (on 24 April 2023)

im having a blast with it. i like the idea of bosses at end of some missions, i wasnt sure about it being levels instead of semi open world until i started playing it.. i got gold edition for £60 off cdkeys

Ka-pi96 Giggity_goo (on 25 April 2023)

"i got gold edition for £60 off cdkeys"

:( I remember when a brand new game used to be £40 and getting it from an alternative source like cdkeys could potentially get that down to £30. I miss those days.

Chazore Ka-pi96 (on 25 April 2023)

I miss when they were around £30-40, that's why I don't bother that much with AAA these days, £60+ is just too much for me, and that's without the added DLC packs and paid battle passes...