{"id":38459,"date":"2025-04-21T13:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T13:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/38459\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T13:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T13:50:11","slug":"devolver-will-be-leaning-further-into-its-existing-ips-as-best-selling-games-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/38459\/","title":{"rendered":"Devolver Will Be ‘Leaning Further into’ Its Existing IPs as Best-Selling Games Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Devolver<\/a><\/p>\n

Publisher Devolver Digital will be focusing more on expanding its existing franchises alongside its brand new games, according to slides from a presentation to investors.<\/p>\n

Shared by mauronl<\/a> on Bluesky are a couple of graphics that tell of the company’s highest earning games<\/a>, as well as a trend discovered that players are more inclined to stick to established series than buy new, unknown titles.<\/p>\n

Cult of the Lamb<\/a> is Devolver’s best seller, with lifetime revenue over $90 million. It’s followed by Astroneer<\/a>, which is over the $80 million threshold.<\/p>\n

Other top-earning IPs include Stronghold, Serious Sam<\/a>, Gungeon<\/a>, Shadow Warrior<\/a>, and Hotline Miami<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Again, the main takeaway for Devolver is that most of its top money-makers are established IPs, and players are “spending more time” on these rather than new games.<\/p>\n

Cult of the Lamb was a new IP when it launched in 2022, but since then it’s been updated many times and has received several DLCs and expansions, extending its lifespan far beyond that original release.<\/p>\n

Astroneer has also benefitted from similarly strong post-launch support, and a spin-off, Starseeker: Astroneer Expeditions<\/a>, has been announced<\/a> for 2026.<\/p>\n

The second slide<\/a> shared on social media that reveals sales\/player counts for three Devolver titles \u2014 GORN<\/a> (over 1.5m units sold), Astroneer (over 13 million players), and the Gungeon series (over 5m units sold).<\/p>\n

Due to the success of each, they’re all getting sequels or follow-ups.<\/p>\n

It sounds like we can expect Devolver Digital to place a little more importance on building recurring franchises with sequels or expanding its titles further with post-launch additions.<\/p>\n

That being said, the publisher does still seem to be in the business of bringing fresh games to market, with Baby Steps<\/a>, Skate Story<\/a>, and Possessors<\/a> all in the pipeline.<\/p>\n

What do you think of these new Devolver Digital details? Are you surprised to see Cult of the Lamb as the publisher’s highest-earning game? Tell us in the comments section below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Publisher Devolver Digital will be focusing more on expanding its existing franchises alongside its brand new games, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3004,12,59,55,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-38459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-devolver-digital","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-ps4","11":"tag-ps5","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114376279656259970","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}