“It just drew attention to quality RPGs.”
“We always knew that Expedition 33 had a very specific identity,” Handrahan toldThe Game Business.
We were confident in that.
And it went as well as it possibly could have done in our eyes.
And, actually, proximity to Oblivion didn’t seem to harm us at all.
According to data from Ampere, there’s a 35 percent crossover between the two RPGs.
Both games were available on Xbox Game Pass at launch.
This crossover percentage drops to 22 percent for Steam players, and 16 percent on PS5.
However, average playtime on Xbox has been lower - likely due to players dipping in on Game Pass.
When another publisher started looking at the game, Kepler had already snapped it up.
“We were straight on top of it,” said Handrahan.
There’s a lot of good games, but the really remarkable stuff comes along relatively rarely."
