Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 Surprisingly Successful

CI Games Studio boasted the success of Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 - over 560,000 copies of the game have been sold, and the title broke even within two months.

Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 is the latest installment of the series of first-person shooters created by CI Games. SGWC 2 launched on June 4 this year and recorded a very good start, which can also be seen from the sales success achieved by the game. As reported by the developers, by the end of August the game had sold over 560,000 copies and broke even in less than two months.

The aforementioned sales translated into a profit of over 30 million PLN (around $8 million, the amount CI Games had to spend on production and marketing of SGWC 2). The financial results were commented on by the company's CEO, Marek Tyminski, who does not hide his satisfaction with the game's success. He also explains that the development of the Sniper Ghost Warrior series is a part of the strategy adopted by the studioTherefore, we can expect further releases. Below are some statements from the CEOy:

"I am very pleased with the successful release of Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2, which will significantly translate into results for the whole of 2021 and following years. It is also the best-rated game in the series so far, both by players and critics".

In fact, if we look at the review chart on Steam, players are very positive towards the game of the Polish studio. Out of more than 3 thousand reviews, only 600 are negative. We are also pleased with the stats relating to the number of simultaneously active users. According to SteamDB it is almost 1300 people. Going beyond Valve's platform, on Metacritic the game is also doing well, the PC version received a score of 73/100 among critics, and players rate it very similarly at 7.4/10. When it comes to reviews SGWC 2 on consoles, the game appealed more to Xbox One players, with an average score of 7.8/10 on that platform and a 6.9/10 score on PlayStation 4.

"SGWC 2 is an important milestone in the development of CI Games. A part of our strategy is the consistent development of the series. Already in the first half of 2020, we started planning and creating the concept of the next sniper game, including significant work on the process of changing the engine and unifying the technology, on which we are currently creating all our big titles. At the beginning of July 2021 almost the entire team from the Warsaw studio joined the project and we began the production phase."

Quite recently there was also the release of an expansion for the game, under the title Butcher's Banquet. It offers a new region and is available as an update on PC and consoles. You can read more about it here.