Kingdom Hearts Tops Sales Charts After Steam Release

Kingdom Hearts Tops Sales Charts After Steam Release

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The entirety of the Kingdom Hearts series is now available on Steam via the Kingdom Hearts: Integrum Masterpiece collection. Previously, the games were exclusive to the Epic Games Store, but Square Enix announced in May that they would be jumping to Steam. That jump has paid off majorly.

In a series of posts on Twitter, Circana's Mat Piscatella shared an array of sales metrics for the month of June, as well as the year to date. For the uninitiated, Circana is a company dedicated to measuing market performance and trends in various business segments, including video games. Among those posts shared by Piscatella were the 20 best-selling games in the United States, of which Kingdom Hearts cracked the charts.

With the franchise finally coming to Steam, plenty of gamers will jumping into Kingdom Hearts for the first time.

Cracked the charts might be an understatement, because Kingdom Hearts jumped 396 total spots to make it into the top-three of best-selling games. That's right, 396 spots. The Integrum Masterpiece collection opened at 399 and ended at No. 3, just behind Elden Ring and Modern Warfare 3 (2023).

It's no surprise that a Kingdom Hearts release on Steam would...

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