Astral Chain is the best-selling bodily game within the UK this week.
The Nintendo Switch unique – which released last week to positive reviews – is the sixth Switch game to high the charts this yr. This doesn’t embrace digital gross sales as Nintendo doesn’t make its obtain stats public.
Astral Chain offered extra bodily copies than its multiplatform opponents, however not by a lot. There’s about 1,500 in boxed gross sales between first and fourth place. Coming in at second is racing game Wreckfest, adopted by Supermassive Games’ Man of Medan, and Remedy Entertainment’s Control.
This is the primary game from PlatinumGames to go to primary on the UK charts, and the second greatest new IP launch for the reason that 2010 launch of Bayonetta. Before Astral Chain, the studio’s highest charting launch was 2013’s Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance which hit the quantity two spot.
Its Metareview rating tells one other story, nonetheless. Astral Chain is at present being review-bombed on the overview combination web site, with over a thousand of negative user scores criticizing its fight, framerate, and the truth that it’s unique to Switch.
You can take a look at our overview of Astral Chain right here, which describes the game as taking ” some time to get going, however it turns into an enthralling, thrilling expertise that borrows a lot from different PlatinumGames titles whereas being one thing particular all of its personal.”
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