Square Enix has announced the Octopath Traveller series has surpassed 6m lifetime sales, shortly after the release of Octopath Traveller 0.
Revealed on the official Octopath Traveller X account, this milestone coincides with steep discounts across all entries in the series. Octopath Traveller and Octopath Traveller 2 are available right now at a 60 percent reduction in price.
The Octopath series has proven a successful gambit from Square Enix. The original release back in 2018 proved a smash hit critically, quickly soaring past 1m sales. Roughly a year later, it came to Steam, adding additional fire to the game’s momentum.
In 2022, Octopath Traveller: Champions of the Continent released in Europe and North America, adding controversial gacha mechanics to the series. Then, in 2023, Octopath Traveller 2 was released. This too proved popular among RPG lovers, iterating on the original and garnering a new wave of positive critical reception. It also had a stint on Xbox Game Pass, offering a nice boost.
Fast forward to this year and we’ve got Octopath Traveller 0, a recreation of the aforementioned Champions of the Continent without all the oozing microtransactions. It’s not perfect by any means, but remains a pleasing RPG experience despite its faults. Eurogamer’s Dom Peppiatt described the game as: “an interesting experiment in trying to make a traditional game out of gacha elements, it’s just not a very successful one.”
