The best-selling video game of the last month was a free-to-play fighter from a company in transition. Yes, MultiVersusalso known as Super Warner Bros. Meleetopped the sales charts for July 2022, according to data tracking company NPD.
Released last month after an open beta period, MultiVersus is a platformer in the same vein as Nintendo’s ever-popular Super Smash Bros. Series. His gimmick is a list that also includes a ton of different franchises—in this case, all of Warner Bros.’ domed ceilings. You can play as characters of people like adventure time (Finn the human, Jake the dog), Rick and Morty
not how Nickelodeon All Star BrawlNickelodeon’s similar cross-franchise foray into fighting games, MultiVersus was ardently popular and counted estimated 12 million players since launch. (At the moment All Star Brawl has 13 active players according to the stats tracking site SteamDB.) MultiVersus is too one of the most played titles on Valve’s Steam Deck handheld – although fighting games on handheld machines kinda suck. The power of free to play.
Of course, the $0 price tag doesn’t bring publisher Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment any hard cash. Sales were boosted by the Founders Pack last month, which starts at $40 depends on the edition you get and grants access to characters in the list.
It’s unclear how many individual Founders Packs were sold or the total dollar amount, as NPD didn’t release those numbers. but MultiVersus is still behind other sales giants 2022 how elden ring, Pokémon Legends: Arceusand horizon forbidden west, year to date. Although it topped the charts in July, MultiVersus is not among the 20 best-selling games of the year.
Representatives of the NPD did not respond to a request for comment.
Casting a shadow over all this, of course, is the woes at Warner Bros. Interactive, a division of WarnerMedia of which it was recently a part a $43 billion merger
But WB’s gaming division appears to be doing just fine. In addition to MultiVersusthe family friendly Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, which came out in April, was the third best-selling game in the last month. There are also more potential Juggernauts in the pipe. Warner Bros. Interactive will be released in October Gotham Knights, a co-op open world action game set in a version of DC canon where Batman is dead. (Despite signs of a loot grind, Gotham Knights looks kinda cool.) That will follow next year through a game based on suicide squadDC’s contingent of anti-heroes.