Wasteland 2 Made Over $1.5 Million in Revenue

It looks like Wasteland 2 is already well on the way to breaking even, as Eurogamer brings us news of the fact that inXile Entertainment’s post-apocalyptic turn-based RPG sequel already generated more than $1.5 million in revenue:

How will the champions of Kickstarter do in terms of real-world sales? Very well. Wasteland 2 has made more than $1.5m in revenue in four days on sale.

That’s a significant take for the independent game, which had a budget of around $6m – “we put in twice as much money into this game than we raised from Kickstarter”, Brian Fargo, head of developer inXile, once told us.

Funnily enough, inXile’s PR rep originally reported it as 1.5 million copies, the kind of unrealistic success that would convince most publishers to put one or two turn-based RPGs in production. As much as I’d like to be able to report on those numbers, given the genre is very dear to me, there never was much of a chance they would be actually real.