PC gamers gather around. Since launching yesterday, Arrowhead’s point and click action adventure game, Magika, has managed to jump to the number one spot on Steam’s sales charts, selling over 30,000 copies in its first 24 hours. Alright, so it’s not quite WoW: Cataclysm, which sold 3.3 million copies in the same amount of time, but it is an impressive feat for a game with hardly any marketing budget behind it.
Most of the sales were generated by word of mouth.
“The reception for Magicka has been better than we dared to hope, watching the numerous YouTube clips of gamers and editors worldwide laughing themselves senseless as they misfire spells left and right as well as the comments on twitter and forums show us people really get the humor and the idea behind Magicka.” said Shams Jorjani, Producer at Paradox Interactive. “Singleplayer and LAN is what most people are currently playing but updating the multiplayer lobby and continuously improving the game is our top priority.”
Magika is available for $9.99 (R70) on Steam, and you can try your hand at the free demo which is also available on Steam.
Correction
We previously reported that Magicka was an RPG. It is actually an action-adventure title with not many RPG features.
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