Inzoi sold 1 million copies in a week, developer and publisher Krafton announced. This is the fastest sales milestone ever for a game published by Korean Megacorp.
Krafton’s The Sims competitor was released on PC via Steam on early access forms on March 28th, quickly making headlines after discovering that players can run around and kill children. Krafton replied that it fixed what it called an “unintended bug.”
Despite this hiccup, Inzoi has a “very positive” user review rating on Steam and ranks third in the gaming category, seeing the peak of 175,000 simultaneous viewers on Twitch. Just 40 minutes after its release, it became number one on Steam’s global top seller list (sales revenue).
Meanwhile, Canvas, Inzoi’s in-game user-generated content (UGC) sharing platform, uploaded over 1.2 million “participants” and over 470,000 content on the day of release.
Passthecontroller’s Inzoi Early Access Review returned 6/10. “Inzoi is a visually impressive life simulator and has ambitious enough, but not deep enough at the early access launch.”
Obviously, Inzoi is in the business of Krafton. This emphasizes that it will help promote games before launch, promote communication with the community, and build trust and momentum for release. The Inzoi Global Showcase and Demo Build “are particularly high interest,” Krafton added.
CEO Ch Kim commented: “We are grateful and excited to present Inzoi to players around the world through early access. We will continue to communicate actively with players and develop Inzoi as Krafton’s long-term franchise IP.”
Regarding the following, Krafton says future updates will introduce new content such as mod support and new cities, and will be free until all updates and DLC are released in full.
In a recent note to players, Krafton said it would “quickly” apply fixes to issues reported through hotfixes during April, during complaints from some players regarding the status of the game. The size of Inzoy’s global community is “the next level of experience for us,” said Clafton, who admitted that “we experience some degree of trial and error in finding the best means of communication.”
Wesley is the UK news editor at Passthecontroller. Find him on @wyp100’s Twitter. You can contact Wesley at [email protected] or confidentially at [email protected].
