UK Sales Charts: Farming Simulator 25 Crops Up in a Nintendo-Heavy Top 10

At least if you play the game you won't have to worry about inheritance tax.

@somnambulance Don't really think the game was meant for an audience that frequents game sites. They're probably waiting for the holiday to call it a success or not, and likely expect the Switch to account for most of its sales. The question will be: will kids/Switch gamers care about Horizon?

Personally speaking, I still bought it. Anyone expecting a LEGO game to score higher than 8s probably doesn't play LEGO games.

@somnambulance I think it peaked at 600 concurrent players on Stream, whereas DQ, which is below it on the above chart, has 45,000. So yeah, it not doing well. It's probably only up there so relatively high on the physical charts because it's more of a kids game and parents seem to prefer physical rather than putting credit card details into the console.

@somnambulance I don't think it would've done great even with a higher review score. LEGO games aren't great. And they're mostly geared toward kids which is why I think Sony allowed Nintendo to have it. Check back in January to see if it is or isn't a flop. Chances are after the holidays I'll be in a much better position sales-wise.

I had to do a double take. Farming Simulator sold 2 million copies in its first week?

@somnambulance The lack of open world and only 4 characters killed my hype for it.

@Matroska have you ever looked at the Lego games on steam? Apart from Lego Skywalker Saga they all have low CCUs and most don't even get their peaks until months and sometimes years later. Lego Harry Potter Collection only hit its peak last month.

Lifetime Peak Concurrent Players

• Lego Incredibles - 285
• Lego Pirates of the Caribbean - 468
• Lego Harry potter years 5-7 - 326
• Lego Star Wars Clone Wars - 832
• Lego Batman 2 - 523
• Lego Batman 3 - 2,186
• Lego City Undercover - 833
• Lego Harry potter collection - 620
• Lego 2k Drive - 1,039
• Lego DC Supervillains - 866
• Lego movie - 1,402
• Lego Marvel Avengers - 2,112

Out of 25 Lego games on steam 18 of them have less than 3k peaks and only 1 of them has more than 6k and that's the Skywalker Saga with 82k.

Lego games just don't do well on steam at least at launch to the point I'm wondering why the publishers even bother putting them on there, maybe they have long tails and are basically evergreens or something so they eventually make a profit otherwise it just seems like a waste of time.

@MrMagic Well Horizon has 600 not 6000 (and already down to 217 peak in the last 24h) so it's, what, 4th lowest if you add it to that list. But yeah, most of them don't do well. Though it's not exactly a direct comparison since this isn't made by the same devs as the other ones, and doesn't have the same type of gameplay - going off Push Square's review anyway.

I really don't think that Horizon is a strong enough brand to justify it's own Lego game.

The people who love the original games won't necessarily be in the market for a Lego game and the people interested in a new Lego game, most likely care nothing at all about the Horizon games.

@Matroska Yeah it's 5th but the lowest 13 are only separated by a few hundred players and the rest just a couple of thousand. Like I said before a few of them don't actually hit their peaks until much later when they go into the steam sales. The point is Lego games just don't do well on steam at launch apart from one outlier. Even the 4 top games out of the 25 games with 5k odd peak players are not good numbers either, sure they are better than horizon but they are still bad.

Maybe they have some data that tells them PC players are more likely to buy expensive limited edition Lego sets or something because Lego games on steam always seem to flop.

This game has so far sold more copies than Astro Bot, pretty wild how popular it is.

@darylb24 Are we comparing a multi platform release to a widely popular franchise (literally on every available console) to single console release with it's first major release?