Summary
A new update on the commercial performance ofWarhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2shows that the game is one of the hottest new titles in all of Europe at the moment. The update comes in less than two weeks after the game launched on July 31, 2025, highlighting the excitement and anticipation surroundingSpace Marine 2.
With more than a decade passing between the release of the originalWarhammer 40,000: Space Marineand its sequel, fans were rightfully concerned that the new game might not be up to the previous game’s standard. After all, development tasks were in the hands of a different studio, Saber Interactive, rather than the original developer, Relic Entertainment. Thankfully, the worries seemed to be unfounded, asSpace Marine 2reviewspraised the game as a fitting tribute to the venerated franchise and a worthy successor to the original.
That quality and critical praise has been reflected in the game’s sales. Even just after release, Saber Interactive CEO Tim Willits said thatSpace Marine 2saleswere the fastest of any game they’d ever worked on. Now, according to a Tweet from GamesIndustry.biz Editor Christopher Dring,Space Marine 2could well be one of the biggest new titles of the year in Europe, going by recent sales data.
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 Sales Could Make It The Second-Biggest New Game in Europe
According to Dring, European and UK sales figures tracked by the data company Games Sales Data placedSpace Marine 2just behindsales forHelldivers 2, the cooperative multiplayer shooter developed by Arrowhead Game Studios and published by Sony. Given thatHelldivers 2has already sold more than 12 million copies,Space Marine 2could be the second-fastest selling new game in Europe, barely two weeks after it launched. The numbers also put it ahead of other major 2024 titles likeDragon’s Dogma 2, Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth, Star Wars Outlaws,andThe Last of Us 2 Remastered.
Dring did mention some caveats, though, as the figures from Game Sales Data do not necessarily give a comprehensive picture of the publishing environment in the UK. Major titles from smaller publishers aren’t always tracked. One case in point: Game Sales Data does not track thesales ofBlack Myth: Wukong, which stunned commentators and the public by moving more than 10 million copies in three days, mostly out of China. Adding European sales numbers could boostWukong, or even other virally popular games likePalworld, even higher thanSpace Marine 2once fuller figures are obtained and analyzed.
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine II
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