Following the global launch of Dead Island 2 on Friday 21 April, Deep Silver and Dambuster Studios announced they had sold over 1 million copies within just three days of release.
Dead Island 2 has conquered fans around the world, with countless players securing a copy of the fantastic game in the first 72 hours. We’re playing it now and soon will tell you our thoughts on this (minor spoiler) wildly fun title. In the meantime, let’s look at some numbers recorded by the developers over these three days of zombie hunting.
The numbers for Dead Island 2
- Over 1 million copies of Dead Island 2 sold in its first week
- 11 million – total playtime
- 28 million – total number of players killed (more than double the population of Los Angeles)
- 45 million – zombies cut in half
- 756 million – zombie limbs cut off
- 1.1 billion – total number of zombies killed
Dead Island 2 is now available on Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One, PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 and Epic Games Store and PCfor.