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Space Marine 2 sells faster than any of their other games, including Doom and Quake

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Space Marine 2 is off to a great start. Yesterday, Saber Interactive announced that its action game Warhammer 40K has reached 2 million players and maintains a consistently high concurrent view count on Steam.

Now Saber Interactive CEO Tim Willits, who served as studio director at id Software until 2019, says Space Marine 2 sells a lot of games in id’s storied franchises. He’s backed up by former CEO Todd Hollenshead, who left id Software in 2013 and now works with Willits at Saber.

“Todd Hollenshead (former id Software CEO) and I believe that Space Marine 2 is the fastest-selling game we’ve ever worked on, including all of the Quake, DOOM, Wolfenstein and RAGE games over the years,” Willits says.

IGN has reached out to id Software for a response.

Todd Hollenshead (former id Software CEO) and I believe that Space Marine 2 is the fastest selling game we have ever worked on.

Willits left id Software in 2019, meaning he had at least some oversight of 2020’s Doom Eternal. Both Willits and Hollenshead spent multiple years at id Software, joining in 1995 and 1996 respectively, during the glory days of games like Doom 2. During their years at id Software, the studio developed the Quake series, various Doom sequels and reboots, and Rage and its sequel.

While exact sales figures for individual games are somewhat unclear, the 2016 game Doom had sold at least 2 million copies by 2017. Doom Eternal is estimated to have sold 3 million copies at the time of its release.

Either way, Space Marine 2 is doing well, supported by strong reviews and player sentiment. We recently called it “the Xbox 360 shooter in the best possible way,” writing in our review: “Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is a great third-person shooter with an engaging story, a ton of weapons that are great to use, and a good variety of enemies to use them on.” Again, it borrows a lot of ideas from the Gears of War series, but they’re good ideas, and Space Marine 2 does a great job of using them.

“And while the Operations PvE mode that accompanies it doesn’t currently offer enough to make me want to return to it, the extensive customization options for your Space Marine look promising if they’re supported in post-launch updates as planned. Plus, when you’re gutting aliens on such beautiful planets, it’s hard not to come away satisfied.”

For more, be sure to check out our Space Marine 2 Multiplayer Guide, as well as campaign tips and tricks and more. Space Marine 2 is available now on PC, Xbox and PlayStation.

Kat Bailey is IGN’s news director and also co-host of Nintendo Voice Chat. Have a tip? DM her @the_katbot.